April 4, 2008

Box Score

The Towson baseball team scored three runs in its first at-bat and three runs in its final at-bat as the Tigers rallied to beat George Mason, 7-6 in the opener of a three-game Colonial Athletic Association series. With two outs and the bases empty in the eighth, the Tigers got a single, a walk, a game-tying two-run triple and a go-ahead double against Mason's Ryan Brecko.

The Tigers had scored three in the first behind a single, a walk and a three-run homer. Their only other run came in the seventh when the leadoff man reached on an error, and scored after a pair of singles.

Mason scored two in the third to cut the lead to 3-2 as Ryan Uphouse was hit by a pitch, Brent Weiss reached on a fielding error and Spencer Wiggins and Chris Henderson followed with RBI base hits. In the fifth, Mason took the lead scoring four runs. The first run came when Chris Henderson hit a one-out game-tying solo homer. Later in the inning, Scott Krieger was hut by a pitch, Justin Bour singled, and Shane Davis was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Ryan Soares singled to score Krieger, Bour scored on a wild pitch and Davis scored on a Mark Hill base hit. Mason held that lead into the eighth.

Wiggins was 3 for 4 with an RBI, Henderson was 2 for 5 with two RBI and Justin Bour and Mark Hill each had multiple hits. Dan Jaycox started for Mason, allowing three earned runs on 10 hits and two walks in six and two-third innings. Brecko took the loss, falling to 3-1 as he allowed three hits and a walk in one inning.

Towson got multiple hits from Nick Natoli, Kevin Collins, Matt Collins, Steve Yarsinsky and Aaron Gabrielian. Mason and Towson will continue their three-game series tomorrow at Towson with game time set for 1 p.m.