Box Score NOTE: Due to the rain forecasted for the Mid-Atlantic Region on Saturday, the team's CAC doubleheader with St. Mary's (Md.) has been changed to one, nine-inning game starting at 2:00 p.m., at Park Field. The two teams will then conclude their three-game series with a doubleheader on Sunday at Park Field. First pitch is at noon.
STEVENSON, Md. - Stevenson baseball junior Brad Blum (Olney, Md./Magruder) totaled two hits, three runs and one RBI while junior Andrew Haab (Glen Burnie, Md./Old Mill) allowed just two hits over 2.1 shutout innings of relief to earn his first career win as the Mustangs defeated local rival McDaniel, 10-6 Friday at Park Field.
Stevenson (5-3) posted its fourth win in the last five games and third in the last four at home.
The Green Terror (1-3) struck first with three runs in the top of the second, including two on sacrifice flies by Joe Fiore and Brandon Hayward.
The Mustangs tied the game at 3-3 in the fourth on a two-run homer by senior Zac Stavish (Westminster, Md./South Carroll), his second of the season, that scored senior Justin Anderson (Shrewsbury, Pa./Calvert Hall).
Junior Heath Johnson (Wilmington, Del./Charter School of Wilmington) scored the go-ahead run for Stevenson in the bottom of the seventh on a wild pitch by James Chiorello to give the Mustangs a 4-3 lead.
Chiorello was tagged with the loss and falls to 1-1 on the season.
Stevenson would add four insurance runs in the eighth, capped by a Johnson double to center that scored Blum and sophomore Brian Poppleton (Elmira, N.Y./Elmira Freedom) who made his season debut, finishing the game 1-for-1 with a pinch-hit, RBI-single that drove in junior Matt Bratter (Flanders, N.J./Mount Olive) for the team's seventh and game-winning run.
Anderson and sophomore Scott Merkel (Hampstead, Md./Calvert Hall) also had two hits for the Mustangs.
Three players had three hits each for McDaniel led by Ricky Lasota who was 3-for-4.
Stevenson begins its final season in the Capital Athletic Conference on Saturday when it hosts game one of a three-game series with St. Mary's (Md.) on Saturday beginning at 2:00 p.m.