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Salisbury, Md. - No. 7 Salisbury University
exploded for four runs in the eighth inning to come back from a 1-0
deficit and deny St. Mary's College of Maryland its first win of
the season as the Sea Gulls posted a 5-1 victory Sunday afternoon
to sweep three-game series.
Junior RHP Kevin Story (Damascus, Md./Damascus)
picked up the Sea Gull victory in relief as Story
pitched 1.1 innings with no hits and no runs, facing four batters
and fanning two.
The Seahawks (0-3, 0-3 CAC) tallied an early 1-0 lead in the
fourth inning as junior Bobby Corton (Owings
Mills, Md./Calvert Hall) scored on a Salisbury error after
Story put him on base with a walk.
St. Mary's nursed the one-run lead for three innings as senior
RHP Jon Gill's (Owings Mills, Md./Park) pitching
held the Sea Gulls. Gill threw 6.0 innings
with no runs on five hits, walking four and striking out one.
Two Seahawk errors allowed Salisbury (3-1, 3-0 CAC) to knot the
game in the seventh as junior Andrew Miller
(Schwenksville, Pa./Perkiomen Valley) came home on a fielding error
by junior Matt Baden (Sunderland,
Md./Huntingtown).
Miller sparked SU's four-run eighth inning with
a two-run single to left field, scoring juniors Will
Evans (Salisbury, Md./James M. Bennett) and Brian
Green (Salisbury, Md./Parkside). Senior
Trevor Cobb (Hagerstown, Md./Saint Maria Goretti)
then stole home to increase his team's lead to 4-1.
Miller notched the game's final run when
first-year RHP Wick Eisenberg (Baltimore,
Md./Friends) walked senior Ryan Smith (Waldorf,
Md./Westlake) with bases loaded.
Seniors Mike Celenza (Gaithersburg, Md./Quince
Orchard) and Tim Kellinger (Knoxville, Md./Saint
Maria Goretti) and junior Devon Quaglietta (Monroe
Twp., N.J./Notre Dame) led the Sea Gulls at the plate with two hits
each while four different players notched hits for St. Mary's.
Red-shirt first-year RHP Devon Jerrard
(Cockeysville, Md./Boys' Latin) suffered the loss as
Jerrard yielded four runs (three earned) on two
hits in 1.2 innings with one walk.
The Seahawks hope to pick up their first win of the 2010 season
this coming Wednesday, March 3 as St. Mary's hosts Stevenson
University in Capital Athletic Conference action at 2:30 pm.
