Bronx, N.Y. - The Lehman College baseball team dropped a 6-5 contest to Cairn University in a game played on the South Field in the Bronx on Thursday. The team falls to 7-10 overall on the season.

The Highlanders got to Lightning starter, Jose Albrincole early, tagging him for four runs in the first. But Lehman fought back and scored three times in the bottom of the first. Julius Puryear walked and got to third on a pair of wild pitches. Two batters later, Carlo Francisco walked and the Lightning had runners on the corners. Mark Vargas followed with an RBI single that scored Puryear and made the score 4-1. David Rodriguez then walked to load the bases for Natanael Toribio. Toribio connected on a double that scored Francisco and Vargas, but Rodriguez got caught in a rundown and was eliminated. Lehman was within a run, at 4-3.

Cairn answered with another run in the second as Jarret Oehler relived Albrincole in the inning. Lehman would tie the game in the third. Francisco, Vargas and David Rodriguez reached on consecutive singles to load the bases. Two batters later, Namir Garcia got the fourth hit of the innings, another infield single, that plated Francisco and made the score 5-4. Later in the frame, with two outs, Rob Kiernan drew a bases loaded walk that forced in Toribio with the tying run. Cairn got a run off Oehler in the fifth and won 6-5.

Vargas and Toribio each had two hits for Lehman. Michael Zerbo had a double. Oehler was the tough-luck loser. He threw 5.1 innings, allowed just one run, and struck out eight. He fell to 2-4. Eamon Maher also tossed two innings of scoreless relief.

The Lehman College baseball team returns to action on Saturday. March 31, when they face CCNY in a CUNYAC doubleheader in New Rochelle. The first game is scheduled for noon.