GLENVILLE, W.Va. – The Concord University baseball team rallied back from an late-inning deficit but fell in 10 innings, 6-5, to Lock Haven Saturday afternoon in the MEC-PSAC Mixer at the Sue Morris Complex.
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Trailing 4-2 in the top of the eighth inning, Concord (3-5) plated two runs to tie the game. Senior outfielder
Ryan Fralin and senior infielder
Nathan Neff reached base to start the inning on a double and walk, respectively. Two batters later, freshman catcher
Nick Funk came through with an RBI single to plate Fralin while senior outfielder
Adam Linkous followed with his own run-scoring hit to knot the game.
LHU (3-2) broke the tie bottom of the eighth, but the Mountain Lions came right back as freshman first baseman/catcher
Michael Dupont doubled to start the inning and scored on a Lock Haven error to square the contest once again.
The Mountain Lions were primed to regain the lead in the top of the 10
th as redshirt freshman outfielder
Richard Ortiz got to third, but was stranded with two outs. In the bottom half, a one-out double from the Bald Eagles scored on a two-base hit during the next at-bat from Santino Nave.
CU struck first with two runs in the third inning as Neff brought in a pair with a two-out single.
Funk was the lone Concord player with two hits in the game as the Mountain Lions finished with nine hits.
Senior pitcher
Trent Abernathy pitched 6.2 innings, giving up three runs on four hits and striking out eight. Abernathy did not factor into the decision as Linkous (0-2) was charged with the defeat in 1.1 innings of work.
Concord concludes play at the MEC-PSAC Mixer 10:00 a.m. Sunday with a rematch against Lock Haven.
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