JENKINTOWN, Pa. - Hood College's baseball team took a 10-10 ballgame into the ninth inning before scoring 14 runs to speed past Penn St. Abington 24-10.
At the Plate
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Austin Rhue (Milton, Del./Cape Henlopen) went 5-for-6 on the day in the leadoff spot. He tallied three runs scored, one walk and six RBIs.
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James Gruenfelder (Port Jefferson, N.Y./Port Jefferson) went 3-for-4 including a home run, a double, and scored three times while batting in four runs.
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Cameron Day (Hagerstown, Md./Clear Spring) went 3-for-5 with a home run of his own scoring four times while drawing two walks and collecting 2 RBIs
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Sebastian Paz (Miami, Fla./Immaculata-La Salle) went 2-for-2 on the day with a home run, scored twice and drove in two runs.
- Remi Schaber (Memphis, Tenn./Lausanne Collegiate School) drew two walks and scored three times. Schaber also drove in a run.
- Jack Patterson (Boyds, Md./Northwest) went 3-for-6 with two doubles, two RBIs and two runs scored.
On the Mound
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The Blazers put together a bullpen game as five different pitchers entered the game.
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Mason Sawyers (Culpeper, Va./Culpeper County) pitched the fifth inning and allowed one run on two hits.
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Quade Gannon (Felton, Del./Lake Forest) pitched two innings, the sixth and seventh, and only allowed one hit on one run and rang up three batters.
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Colby Childs (Berryville, Va./Clarke County), the winning pitcher, pitched a clean eighth inning.
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Skylar Albright (Hendersonville, N.C./) closed out the ninth only allowed one hit and kept no runs from scoring.
HOOD 24, PENN ST. ABINGTON 10
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Cameron Day (Hagerstown, Md./Clear Spring) homered to center to leadoff the second and some traffic on the bases led to station-to-station scoring highlighted a two-RBI single by Rhue brought the Blazers up 4-0.
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Hood tacked on another run in the top half of the third before Abington's Shane Fillman used a three-run homer to battle back.
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The Nittany Lions would return in their next bat to leadoff with a home run from Jake Fallers followed by walks led to a five-run inning and an 8-6 deficit for the Blazers.
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Fast forward to the top of the seventh, three straight singles loaded the bases led to an RBI groundout by Alex Jenkins (Ashburn, Va./Stone Bridge) and a Schaber sac fly to put the Blazers in reach.
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James Gruenfelder (Port Jefferson, N.Y./Port Jefferson) cleared the bases via big fly and put the Blazers ahead 10-9.
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Alvernia's Rollins went yard to leadoff the bottom of the seventh and the Hood offense stalled with only three outs left in regulation.
The 9th Inning
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Now it was time for the Blazers to score or be subject to be walked-off by the hosting Nittany Lions. With one out Remi Schaber (Memphis, Tenn./Lausanne Collegiate School) drew a walk followed by a Gruenfelder double. Rhue drove a base hit to the outfield scoring Schaber and Gruenfelder scored on an error in the outfield to go up 12-10.
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Since you read the headline, and probably the lead, you know the Blazers would then take insurance runs seriously.
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Four straight batters walked would load the bases again before Matthew Stout (Coatesville, Pa./Coatesville) would sneak a single through the left side to score Brennan. Jack Patterson (Boyds, Md./Northwest) doubled down the line to drive in two more. Later Gruenfelder would drive in a run via single and Rhue would double to cleat the bases to push the score to 21-10.
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Brennan traded places with Rhue scoring yet another run before Paz sent a ball out of the park over the left field fence to put the bow on the 24-10 game.
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By the numbers: 16 runners reached base safely, 14 runs were scored, seven walks were drawn, 5 extra-base hits were hit, two pitching changes were made and one game was won.
For the Opponent
Notes
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Hood improves to 11-4 on the season.
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Penn St. Abington drops to 4-11 on the season.
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The Blazers have scored 25 runs in the last inning of regulation or later in the last three games.
Up Next
The Blazers return home on Friday to start a three-game series Friday, March 22 against MAC Commonwealth foe Alvernia at FCC. First pitch is set for 3:30 p.m..
