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UMass-Lowell
Delaware Splits at Hannah Invitational, Posts 4-2 Win over DelState
3/6/2016 2:40:00 PM | Baseball
• Game 1 Boxscore
• Game 2 Boxscore
NEWARK, Del. -- The University of Delaware got quality starts in each of its two games during the final day of the UD Bob Hannah Invitational, but the Hens had to settle for a split as they knocked off downstate foe Delaware State 4-2 Sunday afternoon after falling to UMass Lowell 5-3 in the opener.
The Blue Hens (6-4) went 2-1 during the two-day tournament thanks to a 4-2 win over UMass Lowell on Saturday afternoon. In three games during the weekend, Delaware starting pitchers went 19 innings, allowed just 10 hits, two earned runs, and seven walks while striking out 21 batters.
Delaware has now won three of its last four games and is 3-1 at Bob Hannah Stadium this season. The Hens will continue non-league play Tuesday vs. Maryland (at 4 p.m. at Harford, Md. Community 
College) and with four home games against Binghamton this weekend beginning with a single game Friday.
"It was a decent pitching day for us and give credit for the win today to Brandon Walter,” said Delaware head coach Jim Sherman. “We just didn't swing the bat very well. We look to bounce back on offense against Maryland on Tuesday and hopefully have another 16 hit day against them."
Walter (at left/photo by Katy Snyder), the 2015 Delaware High School Player of the Year at Hodgson Vo-Tech, picked up his first collegiate victory as he went seven innings against Delaware State, allowing six hits, two earned runs, and one walk while striking out nine batters to improve to 1-2. Kevin Milley came on to get the save with two innings of scoreless relief.
Delaware scored two runs in both the second and six innings and overcame four errors to post the win over Delaware State (0-11) in the 50th meeting all-time between the two in-state foes. The Hens went up 2-0 in the second when Diaz Nardo stole second and third and scored on a balk and Calvin Scott knocked in a run with a single.
The Hornets answered with a run in the third but the Hens tacked on two more safeties in the sixth when Kevin Mohollen started the inning with a single and scored on an error after a Nick Tierno bunt single. Tierno later scored on a fielder's choice groundout by Doug Trimble.
In the first game of the day, Delaware let an early 3-0 lead slip away as UMass Lowell used a three-run seventh inning to post a 5-3 victory. The Blue Hens jumped out to a 3-0 lead with single runs in the third, fourth, and fifth innings.
But UMass Lowell got a solo home run from hot-hitting Steve Passatempo in the sixth and three more in the seventh on a two-run double by Chris Sharpe and a pinch-hit RBI double by Brice Erickson to take control. UMass added another run in the eighth for some insurance.
Delaware got RBI groundouts from Tierno in the third and James Meeker in the fourth and an RBI single from Jordan Glover in the fifth for the 3-0 lead.
Blue Hen starter Burk FitzPatrick was effective, shutting down UML on three hits over five innings before giving way to Nick Spadafino in the sixth. Spadafino allowed four runs in just over an inning of work and took the loss.
AGATE:
UML...........000 001 301 - 5-10-0
Delaware...001 110 000 - 3-7-0
Kuzia, Shea (6), Long (9) and Savard; FitzPatrick, Spadafino (6), Vila (7) and Rapp; DP: UML - 1, D - 1; LOB: UML - 11, D - 5; 2B: Sharpe (UML), Erickson (UML), Mohollen (D), Patten (D); HR: Passatempo (UML); SH: Note (UML), SB: Strom (UML), Tumosa (UML), Mohollen (D); WP: Shea (1-0), LP: Spadafino (1-1); Save: Long (2); A - 250.
Delaware State...001 000 100 - 2-7-2
Delaware...........020 002 00x - 4-7-4
Ragins, DeLeon (3), Davis (7) and Barber; Walter, Milley (8) and Tierno, Rapp (8); E: Onderko (DSU), Panzarella (DSU), Tierno (D), Nardo (D), Niggebrugge (D); LOB: DSU - 12, D - 4; 2B: Maisonett (DSU), Henry (DSU); SB: Henry (DSU), Nardo-2 (D), Patten (D); WP: Walter (1-0); LP: Ragins (0-1); Save: Milley (1); A - 300
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