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Blue Hens Use Clutch Late-Inning Hitting to Post 9-6 Comeback Win Over Towson
5/14/2016 3:59:00 PM | Baseball
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TOWSON, Md. -- Thanks to some late-inning hitting heroics, the University of Delaware baseball team is still alive in the Colonial Athletic Association playoff hunt.
Down 5-3 after six innings, the Blue Hens scored six runs over the final three innings and posted a 9-6 CAA victory over Towson at Schuerholz Park Saturday afternoon.
The Blue Hens (30-20, 8-12 CAA) bounced back from a 13-inning loss on Friday to move back to within a potential tie for sixth place in the league standings and are just one game behind the fifth place Tigers (19-31, 9-11 CAA) in the league standings.
The two teams will square off in the final game of the three-game set Sunday at 1 p.m. Junior left-hander Kevin Milley (2-0) will take the mound for Delaware with his fourth start of the season.
Delaware, which reached the 30-win plateau for the first time since 2013, scored a run in the seventh on a sacrifice fly by Diaz Nardo and then took control for good with four runs in the eighth to take an 8-6 lead.
The teams came out strong as Delaware scored twice in the first inning on Nardo's two-out, two-run double and added another run in the second on Mohollen sacrifice fly to knot the score at 3-3. Towson took the 5-3 lead with two runs in the fifth before the Blue Hen bats heated up again in the final innings.
Towson, which committed five errors, got two hits, two RBI, and a home run from shortstop Brady Policelli. Kyle Stricker (5-2) got just one out in the eighth and took the loss for the Tigers.
HEN SCRATCHINGS:
• Walter has pitched at least seven innings in four straight starts and now leads all CAA freshmen in innings pitched, strikeouts, and earned run average and is No. 2 in wins
• Glover's RBI was his team-leading 51st of the season, the most by a Delaware player since Jimmy Yezzo had 64 and Nick Ferdinand 61 in 2013
• Mohollen upped his season stolen base mark to 17 with his two steals. Along with Jordan Glover's team-high 20 steals, Delaware has two players with 17+ stolen bases for the first time since 2006
AGATE:
Delaware.....210 000 141 - 9-17-1
Towson........120 020 100 - 6-8-5
Walter, Chasanov (8), FitzPatrick (9) and Mayer; Ross, Stricker (8), Lawler (8) and Howerton, Martinez (9); E - Walter (D); Gimblet (T); Caddigan (T)- 3; Ross (T); DP - T-2, D -0; LOB - D- 12, T-6; 2B - Baker (D); Nardo (D); Meeker (D); HR - Policelli (T); HBP - Palacios -3 (T); SF - Mohollen (D); Nardo (D); Policelli (T); SB - Mohollen (D); Baker (D); Patten (D); Palacios (T); Gallo (T); CS - Baker (D); Palacios (T); Gallo (T); WP: Walter (6-3); LP: Stricker (5-2); S - FitzPatrick (4); A - 231.
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