Box score

SALISBURY, Md. - Mike Celenza went 2-for-5 with three RBIs as No. 12-ranked Salisbury scored seven runs over the first two innings, including five in the first, and led 8-0 after four before holding off a late run by Stevenson en route to an 8-5 victory in the quarterfinals of the CAC Baseball Championship Saturday morning.

The loss eliminates Stevenson (17-15) from the double elimination tournament after the team advanced to the championship game a year ago.

The Sea Gulls (24-7) sent nine batters to the plate in the first inning and scored all seven of its runs over the first two off of Mustang junior Brandon Krochune (Baltimore/Digital Harbor) who lost his second-straight start after starting the season with wins in four of his first five.

Krochune allowed seven runs on seven hits and faced just 12 batters over one inning of work. In his last start, he surrendered 11 runs on eight hits as Stevenson fell at Eastern Mennonite, 21-17. However, only six of those 11 runs were earned as the Mustangs totaled a season-high seven errors.

Both of Celenza's hits and all three RBIs came on doubles in first and second as Salisbury scored seven runs on seven hits while taking advantage of two Stevenson errors.

Chad Wolfe added an RBI double in the fourth to increase the lead to 8-0 before the Mustangs mounted a comeback in the fifth.

Senior Brian Spinnazola (Baltimore/Boys Latin) allowed just four hits and held the Sea Gulls to just one run over the final eight innings in his eighth appearance of the season and first since April 6 at Eastern Mennonite.

Prior to Saturday, Spinnazola's longest outing of the season came at Catholic on March 7 when he scattered five hits and held the Cardinals scoreless over three innings.

Stevenson got on the board with two runs in the fifth on an RBI single by senior Ryan Baione (Waldorf/Westlake) before freshman Cody Schuchman (Baltimore/Calvert Hall) scored on a throwing error.

The Mustangs added two more in the eighth on an RBI double by junior Jeff Bihy (Baltimore/Eastern Tech) and a single by junior Steve Krider (Westminster/Westminster) before an RBI ground out by Krochune with one out in the ninth capped the scoring.

Krider went 3-for-4 with one RBI while Bihy was 2-for-4 with an RBI as the two combined for five of the Mustangs' nine hits.

Kyle Starr earned his fourth win in five decisions for Salisbury this season after allowing just three earned runs on six hits over seven innings.

Stevenson travels to Gettysburg on Tuesday to begin a seven-game swing that will conclude its 2010 regular season. First pitch is at 3:30 p.m.