SMITHFIELD, R.I. – The LIU baseball team picked up a huge win on the road Saturday, beating the league-leading Bulldogs, 8-3. The Sharks beat Bryant in Conaty Park to move to 12-8 in the Northeast Conference. With Bryant winning game one, Sunday's 1 p.m. contest will determine which team takes the three-game series.
 
The Sharks went up big early, scoring seven runs in the first two innings.
 
In the first inning, Cade Biddle led off with a single and stole second. He'd move to third on a single from Anthony Warneke, and scored on an error when the Bryant catcher tried to catch Warneke stealing second and failed. EJ Exposito used an RBI single to bring another run home, an RBI groundout for Andy Camilo would bring him home, and an RBI single for Collin Adams made it 4-0 Sharks after one.
 
Bryant added one in the bottom of the first, but the Sharks would add three more in the second to widen the gap. Warneke and Exposito would have back-to-back RBI singles, and another run would score on a Bryant error, as LIU took a 7-1 lead.
 
Neither team would score again until the bottom of the eighth. Bryant added two runs to its total to make it 7-3, but an RBI double in the top of the ninth from Giovanni Ciaccio gave LIU an 8-3 advantage. Bryant would get two runners on in the bottom of the ninth, but senior Rob Griswold would come in and get the final two outs to clinch the win for LIU. 8-3.
 
Joshua Loeschorn got the win on the mound pitching 7.0 innings and striking out eight batters.
 
The two teams wrap up the series Sunday, May 2 at 1 p.m.