STEVENSON, Md. - After falling behind 2-0, the Stevenson baseball team scored eight of the game's final 11 runs, including four in the bottom of the seventh, highlighted by the game-winning RBI from senior Troy Miller as the Mustangs posted an 8-5 Commonwealth Conference victory over Messiah Friday at Park Field.

Stevenson (15-14-2, 11-5 MAC) remained two games behind Alvernia for first place in the conference and two games ahead of third-place Widener with five remaining.

The Falcons jumped out to a 2-0 lead after RBI singles from Joseph Saufley in the first and John Griffitts in the second before the Mustangs responded with four runs in the bottom of the second to take the lead.

With one out, senior Brody Tennant doubled to left center before junior Matt Myers tripled to right center to put Stevenson on the board. Myers then scored on a RBI-single by junior Kevin Wu to tie the game at 2-2.

A walk by senior Frederick Casper and a balk put runners on second and third before a sacrifice fly by freshman John D'Aquanno and a RBI-single by sophomore Kevin Kopas have the Mustangs a 4-2 advantage.

Messiah (12-4, 8-8 MAC) tied the game at 4-4 with a run in the third and fifth before Stevenson plated four more in the bottom of the seventh. 

Wu led off the inning with a double while Casper singled and D'Aquanno was hit by pitch to load the bases. Miller drove in Wu with an RBI-single before a Falcon throwing error allowed Casper to score to put the Mustangs in front, 6-4.

Junior Craig Joseph then singled to score D'Aquanno before Miller scored on an sacrifice fly by Tennant to put Stevenson up, 8-4.

Messiah scored its final run on a two-out double by Derek Drake, but that would be all the Falcons could muster against junior Ryan Martin who allowed just one run and one hit over 2.2 innings to earn his second win of the year in relief of freshman Daniel Williams.

Junior Trevor Fitzsimmons surrendered just one hit over the final 1.1 innings while striking out one.

Kopas and Wu each went 2-for-4 with one RBI while Wu also scored twice. Miller was 2-for-5 with one RBI.

Saufley finished 2-for-4 with two runs and one RBI for Messiah while Brandon Shirk suffered his third loss in five decisions this season after allowing eight runs on nine hits over 6.1 innings.

The two teams conclude their three-game series on Saturday at Messiah's Starry Field. First pitch is at noon.