{"id":16612,"date":"2026-03-31T14:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/?p=16612"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:36:07","slug":"lvc-baseball-sweeps-fdu-florham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2026\/03\/31\/lvc-baseball-sweeps-fdu-florham\/","title":{"rendered":"LVC baseball sweeps FDU Florham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\">\n<p>By John Klein \u201827, staff writer\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The LVC baseball team swept FDU Florham this past weekend, propelling the&nbsp;Dutchmen&nbsp;to the 4<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;seed for the MAC Freedom playoffs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0Dutchmen\u00a0started their\u00a0hitting streak\u00a0on Friday at\u00a0FDU,\u00a0contributing\u00a0to a weekend total of 39 hits over the 3-game span against the Devils.\u00a0Kenny\u00a0Palmieri\u00a0homered twice on\u00a0Sunday\u00a0in\u00a0games\u00a01 and 2.\u00a0Joey Santora\u00a0and Spencer Butz\u00a0both hit a homerun as well on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting pitcher for the Dutchmen, Trey Dianna, talked highly about the&nbsp;team\u2019s&nbsp;performance this past series.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe guys are rolling right now,\u201d Dianna said. \u201cIf we keep playing this way, we have a good chance of keeping our season going for a while.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dianna\u00a0showed out for the Dutchmen in\u00a0game two on Sunday.\u00a0He\u00a0earned the win,\u00a0giving up five hits over a\u00a07-pitch\u00a0span and struck out two batters. Owen Barry closed out the game for the Dutchmen\u00a0by only giving up two hits and striking out a batter through his 25-pitch closing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m&nbsp;glad that I can help the team out in&nbsp;an important role,\u201d Dianna said.&nbsp;\u201cI have been&nbsp;progressing&nbsp;each start this year. This gives me a lot of faith in myself to keep it going and improving from here.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team\u00a0is currently 9-11 overall and 6-3 in conference play. The baseball team\u00a0will face\u00a0the University of Scranton on\u00a0Wednesday,\u00a0April 1,\u00a0at 5 p.m. The\u00a0team\u2019s\u00a0next conference game will be against Stevens University on\u00a0Friday,\u00a0April 3,\u00a0to keep\u00a0its\u00a0MAC\u00a0playoff hopes\u00a0alive.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By John Klein \u201827, staff writer\u00a0 The LVC baseball team swept FDU Florham this past weekend, propelling the&nbsp;Dutchmen&nbsp;to the 4th&nbsp;seed for the MAC Freedom playoffs.&nbsp;&nbsp; The\u00a0Dutchmen\u00a0started their\u00a0hitting streak\u00a0on Friday at\u00a0FDU,\u00a0contributing\u00a0to a weekend total of 39 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2026\/03\/31\/lvc-baseball-sweeps-fdu-florham\/\" title=\"LVC baseball sweeps FDU Florham\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16635,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16612\/revisions\/16635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}