Box score

ABERDEEN, Md. - For the fourth time in four meetings this season, Stevenson and Mary Washington had a game decided by one run as an RBI double by Shane Sixsmith with two outs in the top of the eighth gave the Eagles a 10-9 victory in the second round of the CAC Baseball Championship Thursday at Yankee Stadium Field.

The loss was just the third in the last seven games for the Mustangs (17-14) in the conference tournament after they advanced to the championship game a year ago.

Stevenson will now face top-seeded and 12th-ranked Salisbury on its home field Saturday morning at 9:00 a.m., in an elimination game.

The Eagles (20-10) led 7-1 going into the bottom of the fifth after scoring three runs each in the fourth and fifth, including four on RBI doubles by Eric Rehbein and Alex Howell.

The Mustangs would rally to take an 8-7 lead with two runs in the bottom of the fifth and five in the sixth, highlighted by a two out, two-run double by sophomore Justin Anderson (Shrewsbury, Pa./Calvert Hall) that gave the team its first lead. He also had a sacrifice fly in the fifth.

Freshman Heath Johnson (Wilmington, Del./Charter School of Wilmington) and senior Ryan Baione (Waldorf/Westlake) each drove in runs to start the rally in the sixth after junior Brandon Krochune Baltimore/Digital Harbor) scored on a wild pitch.

Stevenson held its lead until the eighth when sophomore Patrick Quinn (Mt. Airy/Linganore) entered in relief of freshman Andrew Haab (Glen Burnie/Old Mill) who retired five of the six batters he faced.

The appearance marked the fifth in as many games for Quinn who had allowed just one run on  four hits in his previous four.

However, Mary Washington would score three runs on four hits and one error in the inning to regain the lead and push it to 10-8 on a two-run single by Seth Jordan and Sixsmith's game-winner.

After a scoreless eighth, the Mustangs threatened with its third walk-off win of the season after a leadoff single by junior Dustin Tarlow (Finksburg/Westminster) and double by Anderson to put runners on second and third with no outs.

Senior George Papuchis (Damascus/Good Counsel) then followed with a drive to left that just missed being a three-run walk-off home run by about five feet, but was deep enough to score Tarlow and pull Stevenson within one.

The Eagles' Ryan Engelking would end any hopes of a comeback by retiring the next two batters to end the game and send Mary Washington to the next round as the only remaining unbeaten in the tournament.

Anderson finished a perfect 4-for-4 with three RBIs to lead Stevenson while Tarlow, Johnson and freshman Cody Schuchman (Baltimore/Calvert Hall) each totaled two hits.

Rehbein drove in three runs for the Eagles. Jordan went 2-for-5 with two RBIs and Alex Howell was 1-for-3 with two RBIs as eight different players had at least one hit for Mary Washington.