St. Mary's City, Md. – The St. Mary's College of Maryland baseball team dropped its first Capital Athletic Conference series of the season Sunday afternoon as the Wesley College Wolverines doubled up on the Seahawks, 4-2, for a 2-1 edge in the series.

St. Mary's (12-6, 5-4 CAC) staked an early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning.  The inning's leadoff hitter, senior Keith Johnson (Great Mills, Md./Great Mills), went all the way to second on a Wesley throwing error before going to third on sophomore Alex Lenovitz's (Glyndon, Md./Calvert Hall) fly out to centerfield.

The Seahawks then loaded the bases as first-year Zach Nadolny (Sparks, Md./Bel Air) drew a walk and senior Nick Urso (Newtown, Conn./Newtown) was hit by a pitch.  Senior Eric Gronbeck (Owings, Md./Northern) sent a high but short pop up to right field to score Johnson.  Wesley's sophomore starter Zach Stuart (Palmyra, Pa./Palmyra Area) got the next Seahawk batter to strikeout swinging to hold the Seahawks to a 1-0 margin through two innings.

Wesley (12-4, 3-3 CAC) got on the scoreboard in the top of the third inning, taking a 2-1 lead.  The Wolverines started off the inning with back-to-back singles before senior Geoff Kimmel (Lawrenceville, N.J./Lawrence) doubled to left field to drive in both runs with one out.  St. Mary's senior starter Michael Victory (Westford, Mass./Westford Academy) got out of the inning by pitching back-to-back ground outs.

St. Mary's knotted the game at 2-2 in the sixth inning.  After a lead-off ground out, Lenovitz tripled to right center and then came home on Nadolny's sacrifice fly to leftfield.  A pop up to the shortstop ended the inning.

The Wolverines broke the draw with two more runs in the eighth inning.  Kimmel crossed home plate on a single to left center by senior Bryan Reshetar (Newark, Del./Hodgson Vo-Tech) to give Wesley a 3-2 lead. Junior Morgan Rupp (Mount Joy, Pa./Donegal) notched the second run of the inning on a single to left field by junior Matt Robles (Gainesville, Va./Battlefield).

Sophomore Sam Coe (Bethesda, Md./Walter Johnson) then relieved Victory with one out and bases loaded.  Coe ended inning by getting Wesley's leadoff hitter to ground into a double play.

Wesley's sophomore reliever Andrew Cooper (Wilmington, Del./Brandywine) picked up his first save of the season by retiring the Seahawk batters in order over the final two innings.

Victory (3-1) suffered his first loss of the season as he gave up four runs (three earned) on 10 hits with two strikeouts.  At the plate, five different Seahawks connected on hits.

St. Mary's will look to snap its two-game slide on Tuesday, March 20, taking on Washington College (12-1) in non-conference action at the Hawk's Nest.  First pitch is at 3:00 pm.