Apr 28, 2009

Baseball Rallies, But Falls to Diplomats in Home Finale

GLEN BURNIE, Md. - The Stevenson University baseball team rallied from a two-run deficit to tie the game at 4-4 in the seventh, but Franklin & Marshall drove in two runs in the top of the ninth to hand the Mustangs their 11th-straight non-conference loss, 6-4 Tuesday night at Bachman Sports Complex.

Shea Moriarty drove in the game-winning run for the Diplomats (22-13-1) with an RBI double to left center before scoring the team's sixth run, unearned on a single to left by Nick Rolnick.

Moriarty finished the game 2-for-4 with a walk and scored three of Franklin & Marshall's six runs, including two of the final three. The top six hitters in the Diplomat lineup combined for 10 of the team's 11 hits and five of its six runs.

Each team scored a run in the first before F&M got two in the top of the second on RBIs by J.T. Triantos and Matt Will to take a 3-1 lead.

Stevenson (17-26) got a run back in the fourth when junior George Papuchis (Damascus/Good Counsel) scored on a sacrifice fly by junior Dan Leonard (Cambridge/South Dorchester) after Papuchis led off the inning with a double.

Moriarty scored on an RBI double by Bill Murray in the top of the fifth to push the lead back to two before a sacrifice fly senior Griffin Stewart (Reisterstown/Bel Air) scored sophomore Dustin Tarlow (Finksburg/Westminster) in the fifth and an RBI double by sophomore Kyle Van Beek (Bel Air/John Carroll) scored Leonard in the sixth to tie the game at 4-4.

The Mustangs had a chance to take its first lead in the bottom of the eighth after senior Wade Keenan (Eldersburg/Liberty) and senior Sean Dolan (Odenton/Arundel) advanced to second and third with two outs following a ground out by Van Beek.

However, Brendan McCreary got Tarlow to fly out to left to end the threat and set the stage for the Diplomats' game-winning runs in the top of the ninth.

McCreary picked up his third win of the season after pitching a scoreless eighth and ninth while Keenan suffered his fourth loss in his fifth complete game of the year.

Dolan and senior Max Eckert (Hyattsville/Perkiomen Prep) each totaled three hits in their final home games with Eckert adding a double and triple.

Stevenson concludes its 2009 season with a doubleheader at Christopher Newport on Saturday.


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