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BRONX, N.Y. - Senior right-hander Joel Feigenbaum (Chicago, Ill.) struck out the side in each of the first three innings in the Yeshiva University baseball team's opening contest of a Sunday afternoon twinbill at Taft High School, but the Macs' comeback attempt in the bottom of the seventh inning fell just shy as visiting Bard College captured a 4-3 victory. The Raptors then held off YU by a 7-0 count in the nightcap.

Feigenbaum, who entered the season with 19 career strikeouts in 38.1 innings of work in his first two seasons with Yeshiva, fanned 11 batters and took the tough-luck loss by scattering six hits and three runs (two earned) through five innings of work.

YU went down 2-0 in the top of the first inning, but scratched one run back in the home half of the stanza when graduate student Elie Baratz (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) plated senior Jonathan Berger (Teaneck, N.J.) with a RBI groundout.

Baratz then produced another run-scoring grounder in the fourth frame, when junior infielder Jake Frankel (Tarzana, Calif.) came home to knot the score at 2-all.

The Raptors then scored single runs in the fifth and sixth innings, before Yeshiva gave the visitors all they could handle in the bottom of the seventh. Freshman Max Nagger (Boston, Mass.) singled home pinch-runner, freshman Gabe Rudansky (Mamaroneck, N.Y.) to cut the deficit in half, before Nagger swiped second base to place two runners in scoring position with two away. However, Bard got the next YU hitter to strike out looking to seal game one for the away side.

In the nightcap, the Macs were stymied by a complete-game gem on the hill from Bard's Ryan Conklin, who allowed one hit and one walk while striking out 14. Rudansky provided a clean single with two gone in the third inning, and notched his second stolen base in as many games for the YU offense.

Yeshiva senior righty Yossi Ciment (Brookline, Mass.) pitched well in relief, tossing three innings of two-hit, three-strikeout scoreless baseball.

Head coach Albert Baez's Maccabees are back in action Tuesday night (March 5), when they open Skyline Conference play with an 8 p.m. first pitch against NYU-Poly at Taft High School.