Box Score GRANTHAM, Pa. – A day after scoring 20 runs, McDaniel scored another 17. On Wednesday, it resulted in a 17-11 non-conference baseball victory at Messiah.
Marty Windisch (Manchester, Md./Manchester Valley) led the power attack for the Green Terror (15-1) with a 4-for-5 day that included two doubles, a triple and a home run. He also scored four runs and drove in six. As a team, McDaniel had nine extra-base hits, including three long balls.
Kyle Wickenheiser went 3-for-4 for the Falcons (9-9) with a home run of his own.
Trailing 11-6, the Green Terror rallied to score 11 runs after the sixth inning.
Sean Sivo (Ellicott City, Md./Howard) started the comeback with a double to lead off the sixth. Windisch followed with a double to plate Sivo before a one-out Tyler Gilbert (York, Pa./Glen Burnie [Md.]) home run to right field cut the deficit to 11-9.
Nick Valori (Sewell, N.J./Washington Twp.) followed with a double before an Eric Grantland (Pasadena, Md./Northeast) singled to put runners at the corners.
A double steal scored Valori to trim the deficit to one.
Michael Gallagher (Coatesville, Pa./Dowingtown West) drew a walk to lead off the top of the seventh before Windisch blasted a one-out dinger for a 12-11 lead.
Cameron Bahr (Southampton, N.J./Seneca) made it back-to-back roundtrippers.
Grantland led off the eighth with a double to spark another four-run inning that set the final margin.
Zachary Fortuna (Metuchen, N.J./Metuchen) and Zach Kronick (Schenectady, N.Y./Guilderland) combined to allow just three baserunners, shutting down Messiah over the final five innings. Fortuna pitched three innings for his first collegiate win.
A Windisch triple and wild pitch staked McDaniel to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first.
A Ben Sollenberger leadoff home run and Wickenheiser two-run shot gave the Falcons a 3-1 lead after one inning.
Kaleb Reitz (Halifax, Pa./Halifax) and Tyler O'Shea (Springfield, Pa./Springfield) were each hit by pitch to start the second before a bunt loaded the bases.
A Sivo RBI single and error drew the Green Terror even at 3-all.
Messiah strung together three hits and took advantage of a pair of hit batters to plated three runs in the bottom of the third.
A two-run Windisch double in the top of the fourth once again evened the score at 6-all.
Three errors in the home fourth helped Messiah plate five runs for an 11-6 lead.
Sivo finished the day with five hits for the first five-hit day in five years. Gilbert added three hits while Bahr and Grantland had two knocks each.
McDaniel returns to action at home against Penn State-York on Saturday. The first game of the doubleheader begins at 12:30 p.m.
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