Box Score BOX SCORE
When and Where: March 4, 2017 – Shippensburg, Pa. (Fairchild Field)
Score: Shippensburg University 19, Southern New Hampshire University 18
Records: Shippensburg 2-6, SNHU 4-3
Graduate student Zach Goldstein (Merrick, N.Y.) and senior Derek Bauer (Millis, Mass.) each knocked in three runs, while three others had multiple-RBI games, but the sixth-ranked Southern New Hampshire University baseball team dropped its second straight to Shippensburg University on Saturday in a wild 19-18, 10-inning affair at Fairchild Field.
After Shippensburg tied it with three in the eighth, neither team could manufacture a run in the ninth. The Penmen had two runners thrown out trying to steal second before Goldstein singled and swiped second, but a strikeout ended the inning. The Raiders, who also put a runner in scoring position, but could not capitalize in the ninth, would win it in the 10th when Jake Kennedy reached on a fielding error and scored on Grant Hoover's single up the middle.
Southern New Hampshire struck first with three runs in the top of the third. Redshirt-junior Ryan Sullivan (Hopkinton, Mass.) began the two-out rally with a walk and Bauer followed by launching a two-run homer that put the Penmen on the board. Junior Caleb Potter (Mentor, Ohio) came through with a double to center and came home on a triple to left from redshirt-sophomore John Stanton (Sandwich, Mass.) to stretch the lead to 3-0.
Shippensburg hopped in front in the home half of the inning as a three-run single from Drew Bene tied the game before he scored on Jack Goertzen's single to center to make it 4-3. A Nick Spangler run-scoring groundout in the second nudged the Clippers' lead to 5-3.
The Penmen jumped back in front with a three-run fourth as an RBI single from redshirt-junior Taylor Olmstead (Greenwich, Conn.) and a two-run single down the left field line by junior Kyle Pangallo (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) made it 6-5.
A single through the left side by junior Sean Webster (Boston, Mass.) in the fifth plated Stanton, who had singled earlier in the frame, as well as sophomore Joshua Zbierski (Stafford Springs, Conn.), who came home on an error. Goldstein's RBI single capped the third three-run inning of the game to that point for Southern New Hampshire and widened the gap to 9-5.
After Dalton Hoiles led off the bottom of the inning with a home run to left, three straight walks and an Olmstead hit-by-pitch answered the run to maintain the four-run lead at 10-6. Shippensburg pushed five across in the sixth to leapfrog back in front at 11-10, but the Penmen erupted for a seven-run seventh to open a large lead.
An RBI single from Pangallo and a run-scoring double by Potter gave SNHU the lead back at 12-11 before Olmstead reached on an error by the shortstop that allowed two more runs to come in. A Webster RBI knock and two-run single from Goldstein stretched the advantage to 17-11.
Shippensburg chipped away with a four-run bottom half of the seventh – highlighted by Hoiles' two-run single – to climb back within a pair at 17-15. Bauer's RBI single up the middle gave the Penmen a three-run cushion in the top of the eighth, but the Raiders would come up with exactly that in the bottom of the frame as a balk wound up tying the game at 18-all.
Junior Ivon Clough (Dublin, N.H.) started for the Penmen and was hit for nine runs – eight earned – on 12 hits, while walking three and striking out two over five innings. Graduate student Stephen Fortuna (Metuchen, N.J.) gave up two runs on a hit, with a walk and a strikeout, in two-thirds of an inning, while redshirt-freshman Brendan Welch (Easton, Mass.) was charged with a run on three hits, striking out a batter, in a third of an inning. Freshman Ryan Steffens (Commack, N.Y.) relinquished three runs on two hits and a pair of walks, while fanning one, in two-thirds of a frame. Redshirt-junior Jake Stearns (Plymouth, Mass.) tossed two-thirds of an inning, allowing two runs on three hits, while walking one and striking out one. Freshman Zachary Merchant (Lunenburg, Mass.) gave up a run on a hit and a walk, while not retiring a batter. Fellow freshman Nick Artymowicz (Seaville, N.J.) worked two-and-a-third innings and struck out two and walked two, while allowing a run on two hits, as he suffered the loss to fall to 1-1.
Goldstein finished 3-for-6 with a walk and three RBI, while Bauer was 2-for-5 with a walk, two runs scored and three driven in. Webster was also 2-for-5 with a walk, two runs and a pair of RBI. Stanton went 3-for-4 with two walks, three runs scored and a run driven in. Olmstead (1-5, 2 runs) and Pangallo (1-6, walk, run) also each knocked in a pair of runs.
Notes:
- The last time the Penmen allowed 19 or more runs in a game was March 29, 2008 when they were beaten at Pace University, 21-3.
- Bauer's home run was his second of the season.
-Stanton fell a home run shy of the cycle.
Up Next:
The Penmen wrap up the series at Shippensburg on Sunday, March 5 when they play a pair of seven-inning tilts beginning at 11 a.m.
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