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Navy (Patriot League Championship)
Bucknell Baseball Forces Third and Deciding Game in PL Tournament with 10-4 Win over Navy
5/11/2003 8:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 11, 2003
LEWISBURG, Pa. -- Bucknell erased a 4-2 deficit with a seven-run eighth inning en route to a 10-4 victory over Navy Sunday in game two of the best-of-three Patriot League Championship. The victory forces a third and deciding game, with first pitch slated to begin at approximately 3 p.m.
In the decisive top of the eighth, Bucknell scored all seven runs with two outs, and all seven were unearned thanks to two costly errors by shortstop Brad Hager and another miscue on an errant pickoff throw. Hager booted Ben Stoll's routine grounder to short to start the inning, and Stoll went all the way to third when pitcher Matt Foster (4-5) overthew his first baseman on a pickoff attempt. With Stoll still at third with two outs, Hager fielded Brian Hirchberg's grounder but threw low to first, scoring Stoll and keeping the Bison alive.
After Kyle Walter walked on a 3-2 pitch, Ben Krentzman singled in the tying run. Brian Day followed with an RBI single to plate Walter with the go-ahead run, and one batter later B.J. Batterson lashed a 3-run triple to right-center to break the game open. Pete Wolf homered over the center field fence for an insurance run in the top of the ninth.
Matt Daley (1-1) worked four scoreless innings in relief, allowing only two hits, to earn the win. Zach Allen started for the Bison, and allowed four runs on six hits in five innings. Foster struck out 10 in 7.2 innings for Navy and allowed eight runs, only two of which were earned.
Wolf went 3-for-5 and Krentzman 2-for-4 to pace the Bison's 11-hit attack. Craig Candeto hit his second homer of the tournament for Navy.
