Bucknell University
Navy
Baseball Drops Two Extra-Inning Games at Navy
3/29/2015 9:01:00 PM | Baseball
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Bucknell and Navy baseball teams were scheduled to play 16 innings during Sunday's doubleheader at Terwilliger Brothers Field at Max Bishop Stadium, but the teams played a total of 24 innings as both ends of the twinbill went overtime. The Mids won both games, claiming game one 2-1 in 10 innings and they captured game two by a 6-5 margin in 14 innings.
Bucknell (14-11, 0-4 Patriot League) and Navy (20-9, 4-0 PL) are no strangers to extra-inning games, having now played extra innings five times in their last 15 meetings in Annapolis, including a 16-inning affair during the 2011 Patriot League Semifinal Series. Sunday's second game was the longest for the Bison since a 15-inning contest at Army in 2012.
Game one was a pitcher's duel between Bucknell's Andrew Andreychik and Navy's Stephen Moore. The game was scheduled to go seven innings and it was still scoreless after regulation with both pitchers still in the game.
Bucknell knocked Moore from the game when it put together a two-out rally in the eighth and got on two baserunners. Jett Meenach (5-0) came on and struck out Ogren with the go-ahead run in scoring position.
Andreychik (2-3) was extremely efficient for the Bison, striking out 12 and scattering nine hits over 9.2 innings. The junior did not allow a runner to reach third base until the seventh inning.
Bucknell scored the first run of the game in the top of the 10th inning when Tommy Pennington drew a leadoff walk and came around to score on a one-out single by Mark Powell, who was hitting in the No. 2 hole in the lineup for the first time this season.
Navy earned the victory with two runs in the bottom of the 10th inning. Brad Borosak and Logan Knowles led off the frame with back-to-back singles and a two-out single by Sean Trent plated Knowles with the winning run.
Bucknell finished game one with seven hits, including a 3-for-5 performance by Powell. Trent was 3-for-5 for Navy with all three hits coming after the sixth inning.
The Mids opened game two with four runs in the bottom of the first inning and knocked Bison starter Jordan Holtz from the game after he recorded just one out. Mike Castellani came on and pitched the next seven scoreless innings, enabling the Bucknell offense to chip away at the deficit.
The Bison scored a run in the third on a two-out single by Ogren, two in the fourth and the tying run in the seventh on a two-out RBI single by Jon Mayer.
The game went to extra innings tied at 4-4. Bucknell went on top 5-4 in the top of the 11th when Ogren had a two-out double and scored on a single by Anthony Gingerelli. However, Navy answered back and tied the score in the bottom half when Robert Currie was hit by a Mike Stephens pitch with the bases loaded and two outs.
Navy clinched a sweep of the weekend's four-game series when Connor Deneen drove in the winning run with a one-out single with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 14th off reliever Max Kra (1-1), who had retired the first seven hitters he faced.
Four different Navy pitchers saw action in the game and each pitched between 3.0 and 4.0 innings. Colin Brady allowed just one hit over the final three innings and earned his first win of the season.
Eight of the nine starters in the Bison lineup had at least one hit in the nightcap as Bucknell outhit the Mids by a 14-8 margin. Gingerelli led the way with three hits, while Ogren, Alex O'Neill and Greg Wasikowski had two hits apiece.
Bucknell will now be idle until next weekend when it plays a four-game series at Lehigh.
