Carteret's Alex Slawinski (10) makes the double play after getting Colonia's Michael Wilson (7) out at second in the GMC Senior All-Star Baseball Game, featuring 51 of the league's top graduating senior at Middlesex County Vocational and Technical High School's East Brunswick campus on June 12, 2016. (Photo: Keith Muccilli/ Staff)Buy Photo

Former Carteret High School star Alex Slawinski helped the St. Peter’s University baseball team snap the nation’s longest current NCAA Division I baseball losing streak at 77 games with a 7-1 victory over Iona Sunday in the opener of a doubleheader.

Slawinski went 2-for-4 and delivered a key hit that fueled a three-run rally in the seventh-inning to produce the final margin.

St. Peter’s, which entered the twinbill with an 0-39 record, returned to its losing ways, falling 19-2 in the nightcap.

The Peacocks’ win in the opener was the team’s first since defeating Rider 8-7 on May 19, 2016.

The team’s roster features two other former GMC players, Chris Micak of Metuchen and Aditya Chandel of J.P. Stevens.

St. Peter’s finished 0-38 last spring to become only the second Division I baseball team since 2000 to go winless in a season. Coppin State accomplished the ignominious feat twice, going 0-44 in 2007 and 0-29 in 2009.

During its losing streak, St. Peter’s was outscored by an average of nine runs per game and allowed 25 runs or more six times.

According to the Associated Press, Division III California Institute of Technology lost 228 consecutive games during a stretch of seasons that nearly spanned a decade.