BALTIMORE, Md. - Junior Ben Davis hit his 17th career home run to break the program record as the McDaniel College baseball team fell to Haverford on a walk-off single, 6-5, in the Centennial Conference Baseball Championship Saturday at Johns Hopkins.

The Green Terror (19-22-1) finished their season on championship weekend for the second year in-a-row.

Davis broke a 68-year-old record held by Al Miller '57 with a two-run shot to right in the third inning. Miller hit 16 home runs for the Green Terror from 1954-57. Davis went 1-for-4 with a walk, two runs and two RBIs. He finished the season with 65 hits, one shy of the program single season record set by Marty Windisch in 2016 and tied by senior Shane Daly in 2022.

Davis' record caps off a memorable season for McDaniel which included graduate student Joey Hubinger breaking the program's all-time base hit record on April 13th and the team securing a postseason win for the second-straight season in its first home playoff game in 22 years.

Davis' homer scored the first two runs of the game, allowing the Green Terror to take a 2-0 lead. The Fords (23-15) answered in the bottom of the third with a two-run homer of their own to tie the game. 

Haverford took the lead in the fourth after a McDaniel pitching change, scoring on an RBI-single to pull ahead 3-2. 

Sophomore Quinn Dean drew a lead-off walk in the seventh, eventually scoring after advancing to second on a sacrifice bunt, advancing to third on a wild pitch and coming home on a sacrifice fly from freshman Henry Novario. Senior Conor Henderson recorded all three outs in the seventh via strikeout to end the frame with the score tied, 3-3.

Sophomore DJ Stolba broke the tie in the eighth on a two-run single up the middle, scoring Hubinger and Davis. The Fords again answered in the bottom half of the inning, scoring on back-to-back RBI singles to knot the contest at 5-5 heading into the ninth.

An intentional walk loaded the bases for Haverford in the bottom of the ninth, and the Fords walked it off on an RBI single to win 6-5.

Stolba and Daly each had two hits, with Stolba going 2-for-4 with two RBIs and Daly scoring a run and stealing a base. Novario recorded an RBI on a sacrifice and sophomore Ethan Haddock also got on base with a double in five plate appearances.

Henderson took the loss, throwing 3.1 innings and striking out five while walking five and allowing three earned runs on five hits. Freshman Brady Harach got the start and tossed three innings, ringing up four strikeouts.