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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. - Last year was a season full of firsts for the Bard College baseball team. First varsity team since 1937. First win since 1937. First home run since 1937.

The Raptors didn't use up all the "firsts" though, and on Saturday, they added a new one: First three-game winning streak in the modern era.

Bard swept D'Youville College, 11-1 and 8-2, a non-league doubleheader at Farmingdale State College on Saturday.

In Game 1, starter Dylan Long was dominant and the Raptors banged out 11 hits. Bard scored three in the first inning and four in the second, while Long was throwing three-hit ball over five innings. He walked two and struck out nine.

Leadoff man JP Fisher went 3-for-3 with an RBI and three runs scored, Gabe Kleiman went 2-for-3 with three RBI and three runs scored, Long drove in three runs and Adam Carafotes drove in two.

The Spartans were playing in their first game of the spring and committed three errors while managing just three hits, because Aaron DePetris provided Bard with two hitless, scoreless innings of relief.

The second game started as more of a pitching duel, with Bard sqeaking out a couple of runs to take a 2-0 lead through four innings, while Kleiman had yet to yield a hit. But the Spartans got an unearned run in the fourth, then two hits and an earned run in the top of the fifth to tie it, 2-2.

Quinn McInerney had the clutch hit of the game in the bottom of the fifth with a one-out, two-run single to snap the deadlock. Long followed with an RBI double to make it 5-2 after five, and Bard scored three more in the sixth - two unearned - and got two more innings of scoreless relief from DePetris who got the save in an 8-2 win.

Kleiman gave up one earned run over five innings, walking one and striking out six. McInerney went 2-for-3 with four RBI; Long went 2-for-4 with two RBI; and Fisher went 1-for-1 with two walks and three more runs scored. He's been the catalyst early on this season.

The Raptors will head to the airport on Friday for a spring trip to Florida. The Raptors will play Sewanee in a single game on Saturday, Colby College in a doubleheader Sunday, and Hamilton College in a doubleheader on Tuesday, Mar. 25.

No question the level of competition will be different in Florida. Time will tell how Bard's youthful roster will handle it.