WESTMINSTER, Md. – Senior
Ben Davis and sophomore
Anthony Cerone each collected three RBIs to lead the McDaniel College baseball team to a 10-8 win over Dickinson on Tuesday in the first game of a home-and-home.
The win is the seventh in-a-row for the Green Terror (27-10, 10-5), who now have sole possession of second place in the Centennial Conference standings with three games remaining in the regular season.
The Red Devils (19-15-1, 5-9-1) opened the scoring in the second inning on an RBI-single; a sacrifice fly from junior
Quinn Dean tied the game at 1-1 in the fourth inning.
The tie held until the sixth inning, when junior
DJ Stolba launched his fourth home run in the last three games to kick off a late-inning rally for McDaniel. Sophomore
Thomas Mezzullo, the reigning Centennial Conference Player of the Week, drove in junior
Ethan Haddock with an RBI-single in the seventh to go ahead 3-1. Davis and Cerone each followed with RBI-singles and Davis scored after junior
Shea McKenna reached via error to stretch the lead to 6-1.
A three-spot in the top of the eighth from the Red Devils cut the Green Terror lead down to two, but four McDaniel runs came across to score in the bottom half for a 10-4 lead. Davis drove in two with a two-run single and Cerone jacked a two-run homer to right field for a six-run cushion.
Dickinson scored four runs in the top of the ninth but could not complete the comeback as McDaniel took game one of the midweek series, 10-8.
Davis and Cerone each finished with three base hits and three RBIs in the win while Haddock had a 3-for-4 day at the plate with two runs scored. Stolba went 2-for-3 with a home run and a run scored while Mezzullo, McKenna and Dean all collected RBIs.
First-year
Luke Wood improved his record to 4-1 with the win, tossing 7.1 innings and totaling five strikeouts, five walks, two earned runs and six hits on 103 pitches. First-year
Chase Shepard threw 35 pitches in relief, walking one and allowing one earned run on four hits in an inning of work.
The Green Terror head to Carlisle, Pa. on Friday to conclude the home-and-home with the Red Devils in the team's final road game of the regular season. First pitch is slated for 3:30 pm.