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GLEN BURNIE, Md. - Senior Max Eckert
(Hyattsville/Perkiomen Prep) totaled three extra-base
hits, including two home runs, and six RBIs to lead the Stevenson
University baseball team to a split with No. 12 York (Pa.) in a CAC
doubleheader at Bachman Sports Complex Tuesday.
The Mustangs (14-15, 10-5 CAC) won game two 9-3 after almost
rallying from a nine-run deficit in game one before falling,
11-9. As a result, both teams remained in a tie for second place in
the CAC, two games behind No. 2 Salisbury.
Eckert had a two-run homer and an RBI double in game one before
adding a two-run homer and a sacrifice fly in the second.
Freshman Justin Anderson (Shrewsbury, Pa./Calvert
Hall) went 6-for-9 with two doubles over the two games
while senior Griffin Stewart (Reisterstown/Bel
Air) was 5-for-8 with two doubles and four RBIs.
After the Spartans (20-7, 10-5 CAC) scored seven runs, six
unearned, over the their first two at-bats in
game one off of senior starter Wade Keenan
(Eldersburg/Liberty), Stevenson got two back in the bottom
of the second on a two-run single by sophomore Dustin
Tarlow (Finksburg/Westminster).
York would add four more runs in the top of the fifth to
increase its lead to nine before the Mustangs began their comeback.
Eckert's two-run homer, combined with a two-run double by
sophomore Chris Maienshein (Finksburg/Westminster)
in the fifth, cut the deficit to five before Stewart and
junior George Papuchis (Damascus/Good Counsel)
added RBI doubles in the sixth to pull the team within three.
Papuchis, Anderson and Stewart all went 3-for-5 while sophomore
Kyle Van Beek (Bel Air/John Carroll) was 3-for-4.
Eckert drove in Stevenson's final run with a two-out, RBI double
in the seventh before Jake Hughes earned his first save by getting
Stewart to end the game with a ground out to shortstop with the
tying runs on second and third.
Keenan suffered just his third loss in eight appearances this
season after allowing 10 hits over two innings. The Mustangs
totaled 19 hits, but stranded 11 runners on base and were limited
by four errors.
Kyle Cook gave up 13 hits over five innings for the Spartans,
but was the benefactor of his team's 11 runs on 11 hits and
Stevenson's four errors.
York took a 3-0 lead in the top of the second of game two with
three unearned runs, but that would be all the runs the Mustangs
would allow.
Freshman Jake Sodeman (Davidsonville/South
River) scattered six hits over 4.2 innings before junior
Brian Spinazzola (Baltimore/Boys Latin) earned his
second save after surrendering just two hits over the final 2.1
innings while striking out two.
Stevenson responded with four runs in the bottom of the second,
capped off by a two-run single by Tarlow after an RBI double by
Stewart who scored the team's second run on a passed ball.
Eckert hit his second two-run homer to highlight a three-run
fifth before he and Stewart added sacrifice flies in the sixth.
Eckert finished 1-for-3 with three RBIs while Stewart was 2-for-3
with three RBIs.
The Mustangs will now embark on a three-game series with
Salisbury, beginning with a nine-inning road contest on Wednesday
beginning at 3:30 p.m. Live stats of the game can be accessed via
the team's schedule page at www.gomustangsports.com.
