St. Mary's City, Md. -  Junior Corey Napier (Hollywood, Md./St. Mary's Ryken) went 2-4 with four RBI, including the game tying three-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning, as the St. Mary's College of Maryland (7-3) baseball team won its third consecutive game, defeating the visiting Yellow Jackets of Randolph-Macon (4-6-1) 11-10 Wednesday afternoon.

Randolph-Macon got off to a quick start scoring two runs in the opening half of the first inning to claim a 2-0 lead through one. However, it wouldn't take St. Mary's long to make a response, as they tallied the next six runs over the course of the second and third innings of play, to take 6-2 lead through three innings of action.

In the second inning back to back one-out singles by sophomore Alex Lenovitz (Glyndon, Md./Calvert Hall College) and first-year Zach Nadolny (Sparks, Md./Bel Air) put two runners aboard for senior Nick Urso (Newtown, Conn./Newtown), who delivered a shot down the left field line, scoring both Lenovitz and Nadolny, and landing Urso on third with a 2-RBI triple. Sophomore Eric Skrzyniarz (Bethesda, Md./Winston Churchill) followed Urso with a RBI single to right field to score Urso from third and put St. Mary's ahead 3-2. After a scoreless top half of the third, the Seahawks bats went to work again in the bottom half of the inning as the first two batters of the inning reached base, and following an out, a walk would load the bases for Nadolny. Just like in the inning before, Nadolny would deliver, lining a bases clearing, 3-RBI double to left field for a 6-2 lead.

The Yellow Jackets would rally for four runs in the top of the fourth, and outscore the Seahawks 8-1 from the fourth through the seventh innings of action, re-gaining the lead 10-7 with two innings to play.

St. Mary's down three runs entering the bottom of the eighth would look to make their push to close the gap before the final inning of action. First-year Brad Dioguardo (Owings Mills, Md./Franklin) led off the inning with single to left field, junior Mike Schmidt (Burtonsville, Md./James Hubert Blake) followed with a single to left field putting the first two runners aboard, as the game-tying run in Napier stepped to the plate. Napier delivered with a blast just inside the left field foul pole for his first home run of the season, and brought the Seahawks even at 10-10. St. Mary's would then take advantage of a rattled Randolph-Macon squad as senior Keith Johnson (Great Mills, Md./Great Mills) earned a walk on the very next play, followed by Lenovitz reaching on an error by the third baseman which advanced Johnson to third. A grounder to the right side of the field by Nadolny would bring home Johnson as the go-ahead run, for his third RBI on the day as the Seahawks capped off a four run bottom of the eighth for an 11-10 lead heading into the top of the ninth.

Sophomore Sam Coe (Bethesda, Md./Walter Johnson) who entered the game in the top of the seventh in relief pitched a perfect top of the ninth to earn the win, his second on the season to zero defeats. Coe pitched three scoreless innings, surrendering only three hits while striking out one. The St. Mary's starter junior Carlos Cruz (Lexington Park, Md./Great Mills) went 5.1 innings, giving up seven runs, five earned, on eight hits.

St. Mary's will return to the Hawks Nest diamond Saturday afternoon for a double-header, the opening games of a three game Capital Athletic Conference series against York College of Pennsylvania. Game one first pitch is slated for noon.