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Box Score 2 ABERDEEN, Md. - A sacrifice fly by junior Zac Stavish (Westminster/South Carroll) in the bottom of the seventh gave the Stevenson baseball team its third walk-off win at home this season as the Mustangs posted a 5-4 victory in game one of a CAC doubleheader Saturday at Yankee Stadium Field.
The win snapped a four-game losing streak for Stevenson (8-21, 4-10) who was shutout for the first time this season in game two, 1-0.
The Mustangs have played 21 games at Yankee Stadium Field with 11 having been decided by one run. The Mustangs are 5-6 in those games wih all five victories coming in walk-off fashion.
Stavish went 1-for-3 with three RBIs in game one and totaled his second game-winning hit of the season after he had a walk-off solo home run in the bottom of the seventh of 6-5 victory over Frostburg State at Yankee Stadium Field on March 5.
Stavish gave the Mustangs a 2-1 lead with a two-run double in the bottom of the third before the Sea Gulls tied it in the fifth on an RBI single by Brian Green. An unearned run in the bottom of the fifth put Stevenson back in front for the second time, 3-2.
Salisbury (15-9, 10-5 CAC) regained the lead with two runs in the top of the seventh on a double by Tyler Bennett and a sacrifice fly by Green.
Both of the Mustangs' runs in the bottom of the seventh were unearned with freshman Scott Merkel (Hampstead/Calvert Hall) tying the game with an RBI single that scored freshman Thomas Goulian (Kinnelon, N.J./Kinnelon) before Stavish's sacrifice fly drove in senior Dustin Tarlow (Finksburg/Westminster) on what should have been the third out.
Merkel finished 2-for-3 with one RBI as Stevenson scored five runs on just seven hits, only two of which were earned.
Despite a blown save and allowing the go-ahead run in the top of the seventh, junior Patrick Quinn (Mt. Airy/Linganore) picked up his first win of the season after relieving junior D.J. Milliken (Owings/Northern) who remained winless in nine starts this season.
The only run in game two came in the top of the seventh on a two-out, RBI single by Green that scored Bill Root after he advanced into scoring position on a fielder's choice by Bennett that should have been the third out.
Salisbury's Nathan Young earned his third win of the season after scattering three hits and striking out three over 7.0 innings. He had a no-hitter through 4.1 innings before surrendering a single to senior Jeff Bihy (Baltimore/Eastern Tech) in the bottom of the fifth.
Freshman Ryan Kellough (Waldorf/Thomas Stone) did not allow an earned run over 7.0 innings in his first complete game of the season despite allowing seven hits and six walks.
Stevenson travels to No. 16 Johns Hopkins on Monday. First pitch is at 3:30 p.m.