DARTMOUTH, Mass. -Â The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth baseball team strung together eight runs in the bottom of the ninth to even the score at 10 to force extra innings, but Suffolk brought home two in the top of the tenth to escape with a 12-10 win Thursday afternoon.
The Corsairs drop to 11-17, while the Rams improve to 16-14. Seniors
Kyle Denis and
Tyler Lyons, and sophomores
Matthew Klett and
Andrew Possi all finished with two hits for UMass Dartmouth. Denis led the team with two runs batted in.
Suffolk started fast with one run in the first, second, and third innings. A pair of base hits made it 1-0 in the first, a double and an RBI groundout brought the lead to 2-0 in the second, and an RBI double extended the lead to 3-0 in the third.Â
Lyons singled and stole second in the home half of the third, and junior
Adam Horowitz brought him home with a base hit to left field to cut the deficit to 3-1.
A wild pitch, a pair of singles, and a double pushed the Suffolk advantage to 7-1 in the fourth. In the fifth it was Denis singling in Possi, who laced a two-out double earlier in the inning, to make it a 7-2 game.
An RBI triple and a base hit drove home two more runs for the Rams in the top of the ninth.
Trailing 10-2 heading the bottom of the ninth, the Corsairs brought across eight runs on three-straight wild pitches, an RBI single from Denis, an RBI walk, a base knock by Lyons, and a sacrifice fly from Klett to even the score at 10.
A bases-loaded hit batter and an RBI groundout made it 12-10 Suffolk in the 10th, and the Corsairs went down in order to finish the night.
UMass Dartmouth hosts the WestConn Wolves for a doubleheader on Friday at 12 and 3 p.m. The Corsairs will play as the road team because the game was originally supposed to be played at WestConn.
