Delaware
Late Home Run Upends Seahawks at Delaware – UNC Wilmington Athletics
NEWARK, Del. – Nick Vera’s two-run residence run within the backside of the eighth lifted Delaware to a series-tying 3-2 win over UNCW on Saturday at Bob Hannah Stadium.
The Blue Hens improved to 22-15 total and 6-5 within the Colonial Athletic Affiliation whereas the Seahawks noticed their data fall to 22-15 and 7-4.
Trailing 2-0 within the seventh, UD’s JJ Freeman reduce the deficit in half along with his second spherical tripper of the collection.
Chris Thorburn and Bryan Arendt every had two hits for UNCW. Taber Mongero belted his fourth residence run of the season to provide UNCW a 1-0 lead within the high of the primary. Cody Benton (0-3) took the loss, permitting three hits and Vera’s homer in 1/3 of an inning.
UD reliever Zach Klapack shut down the Seahawks over his three hitless innings out of the bullpen.
The way it occurred: With one out within the eighth, Benton got here on for Noah Overton. Benton surrendered a single to left, however the tying run was reduce down on the plate on a throw from Dillon Lifrieri. Vera adopted with a homer to left on a 1-1 providing to provide UD the lead.
Contained in the field rating: UCW Cyle Phelan tossed six innings of two-hit, shutout baseball, however he did stroll 5 and struck out 4 … Each groups mixed to strand 9 runners apiece as pitching dominated the afternoon … All three Delaware runs had been scored with two outs … UNCW was hit by a season-high 5 pitches …
House Runs: UNCW – Mongero (4, bases empty with one out within the first to proper subject); UD – Freeman (8, bases empty with two out within the seventh to proper subject), Vera (6, one man on, two out within the eighth to left subject) Up subsequent: The 2 packages will play Sunday at 1 p.m. to resolve the collection winner.