PHILADELPHIA – Catcher John Brocious (Bellmawr, N.J./Triton) hit his team-leading fifth home run of the 2015 season for the Philadelphia University baseball team in an 18-2 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) loss to Chestnut Hill Tuesday afternoon on Alumni Field.

After a scoreless first inning, Chestnut Hill (24-9, 14-4 CACC) scored at least one run in each of the final eight innings, including six in the top of the seventh inning.

Patrick Kelley opened the scoring in the second inning with a RBI single to left to bring home Preston Koehler, who started the inning with a base hit. In the next at bat, Alec Craig grounded out, but was able to Robert Slagle to double the advantage to 2-0. The Griffins tacked on single runs in the third and fourth to widen the gap to 4-0.

With runners at second and third and two down in the fifth, Taylor Steen hit a triple to right center to plate Kelley and Craig. One inning later, Chestnut Hill pushed three more runs across, including a RBI single by Koehler and a run-producing from Slagle, to give Chestnut Hill a 9-0 lead after five and a half innings.

In the bottom of the sixth, Brocious got Philadelphia (12-21, 5-13 CACC) on the board, drilling a Casey Kern offering over the left center field fence with Nick Goetz (Danbury, Conn./Danbury), who reached with a lead-off single, on board to close the gap to 9-2.

Chestnut Hill got a two-run homer from Joseph Monaghan, a RBI double by Kelley, and a RBI single from Michael McLaughlin as a part of a six-run seventh inning to extend the lead to 15-2. The Griffins added one run in the eighth and two more in the ninth.

Patrick Campion, Kelley, Slagle, and Monaghan all had three hits each for the Griffins, who had 19 in the game. Ken McCormick (Yardley, Pa./Pennsbury) led the Rams with two hits in four at bats. Philadelphia finished the game with four hits.

Dominic Raia gave up one hit over five shutout innings and struck out six to improve to 6-1. Philadelphia's Casey O'Donnell (Horsham, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) allowed four runs, two earned, in four innings and fanned three in a losing effort.

The Rams committed six errors.

Philadelphia heads to the University of Penn for a non-conference contest on Wednesday, April 22 at 3:45 p.m.