Standish, Maine – The No. 3 seeded Johnson & Wales University baseball team fell to No. 2 seed St. Joseph's of Maine, 11-1 in the final four of the 2010 Great Northeast Athletic Conference Baseball Championship at Larry Mahaney Field on Thursday afternoon.

After falling behind 2-0 in the first, St. Joseph's exploded for five runs in the second en route to the 7-0 lead. After an RBI single by Todd Keneborus put the Monks up 8-0, Johnson & Wales got on the board in the top of the fifth. Senior Waldis Garcia (Lowell, Mass.) hit a triple and later scored on an RBI single by junior Mike Murphy (Pawtucket, R.I.). That would be all the scoring for the Wildcats, however as the game was stopped in the bottom of the seventh due to the ten-run rule.

Murphy was 3-for-3 with an RBI for Johnson & Wales while Garcia went 2-for-3 with a run scored for the Wildcats in the setback.

Keneborus was 2-for-3 with three RBI for St. Joseph's while Mike Burdin went 2-for-4 with two runs and two RBI for the Monks. Pat Moran notched the complete game victory, allowing one run on seven hits with nine strikeouts.

With the loss JWU is now 14-27 while St. Joseph's improves to 29-10 for the year. The Wildcats will return to action on Saturday, May 1st when they take on Emerson in an elimination game at Pierce Field in East Providence, R.I., at 10:00 a.m. St. Joseph's will take on No. 1 seed Suffolk at 1:00 p.m. with the loser of that contest taking on the winner of JWU vs. Emerson in an elimination game at 4:00 p.m. The GNAC Championship will take place on Sunday, May 2nd at 12:00 p.m.