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Photo by: Lianne Garrahan
Trommer's Walk-Off Helps Bison Earn Doubleheader Split with Lehigh
4/7/2025 6:56:00 PM | Baseball
LEWISBURG, Pa. -- Michael Trommer's walk-off double capped off a big Bucknell rally in game two of a doubleheader, and the Bison gained a split against Lehigh on Monday at chilly Depew Field. The Mountain Hawks won the opener 1-0, scoring the game's only run in the top of the seventh of a seven-inning game, and then Bucknell erased a 5-0 deficit and won the nightcap 6-5 in another last-at-bat thriller.
It had been a frustrating weekend for the Bucknell, which lost in extra innings 2-1 and 3-2 to Lafayette on Sunday before dropping another one-run pitchers' duel against Lehigh on Monday. But the Bison left the park with some good vibes after a big comeback win against a team one game ahead of them in the Patriot League standings.
Bucknell is now 12-19 overall and 4-8 in the Patriot League, while Lehigh moved to 16-15, 5-7. The Bison are in sixth place, but they are only two games behind fourth-place Lafayette with 13 conference games still to play.
IT'S A WALK-OFF WIN! Michael Trommer goes oppo into the LF corner to score Billy Kender all the way from first, and the Bison come all the way back from 5-0 down to beat Lehigh 6-5! #rayBucknell @PatriotLeagueHQ | @ESPN pic.twitter.com/90R8HEGbUs
— Bucknell Baseball ⚾️ (@Bucknell_BB) April 7, 2025
GAME 2: Bucknell 6, Lehigh 5
After being held to three runs in its previous three games and trailing 5-0 into the sixth inning of Monday's nightcap against Lehigh, Bucknell's bats broke out in the late innings en route to its sixth comeback win of the season.
Bucknell got back in the game with a four-run bottom of the sixth inning. After Lehigh starter Noah Gyuach-Quirk held the Bison scoreless on just two hits through five, reliever David Andolina allowed the first four Bison to reach in the sixth. Tyler Dunn started the rally with a single, Billy Kender walked, and Trommer loaded the bases with a single. Ryan Facinelli followed with a bullet to center field to plate Bucknell's first run, and Lehigh went back to the bullpen.
Chris Morabito greeted Max Treonze with a sacrifice fly, and three batters later John Calabrese delivered a clutch two-out, two-run single to make it a 5-4 game.
Bison freshmen A.J. Murray and Samuel Janik were outstanding in middle relief, combining for 5.2 scoreless innings, and Janik induced a well-turned 6-4-3 double play to escape a bases-loaded jam in the top of the seventh.
Bucknell drew even in the bottom of the eighth. Facinelli was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning. He moved to second on a passed ball and scored on Luke Nascimento's sharp double past diving third-baseman Sam Holtz. Holtz kept the game tied with a terrific diving play to rob Billy Fluharty of extra bases, and then Lehigh threatened to retake the lead in the top of the ninth.
The Mountain Hawks loaded the bases on two walks and a one-out bloop single against Hadley Maxwell, but the Bison righthander made some big pitches to get out of the jam. He retired Owen Walewander on a little fister that Kender caught behind the second-base bag, and then he struck out Justin Butler on a nasty slider.
Lehigh southpaw Jake Mulvehill retired the first two Bison in the bottom of the ninth, but then Kender worked a walk after falling behind in the count 0-2. Trommer also fell behind 1-2 before going the opposite way with a deep fly ball that short-hopped the wall in the left-field corner. Kender easily scored from first, and the Bison dugout emptied in celebration.
Maxwell picked up the win in relief with his scoreless inning. Starter Nick Mulvey got off to a good start with two hitless innings, but the Mountain Hawks scored five runs on only two hits in the third. Two errors made three of those runs unearned. The big blows were a three-run homer from Aidan Quinn and an RBI double from Walewander.
Murray went 3.2 scoreless innings, allowing only three hits, and Janik did not allow a hit in his 2.0 innings of work.
Trommer and Facinelli collected two hits apiece as Bucknell outhit Lehigh 8-5.
GAME 1: Lehigh 1, Bucknell 0
Monday's opener featured a fast-paced pitchers' duel between Bucknell's Ben Magovern and Lehigh's Cole Leaman.
Magovern worked out of a couple of early jams before retiring 10 straight Mountain Hawks. A bunt single leading off the sixth ended that streak, but the Bison lefty induced a double play ball to keep the game scoreless. Leaman was just as good for Lehigh. The Bison stranded the bases loaded in the first inning, and that would be the last time they put two runners on base in an inning until the seventh.
The Mountain Hawks broke through with an unearned run in the top of the seventh. Raffaele Rogers walked to lead off the frame. Magovern fielded Walewander's bunt but couldn't get a good grip on the ball and made an errant throw to first, putting runners at the corners. Jonathan Adelmann came out of the bullpen and quickly got ahead of Holtz 0-2, but then his slider in the dirt got past Nascimento and Rogers scored on a close play at the plate. Adelmann did well to keep it a 1-0 game as Lehigh had a man at third with no outs, getting two big strikeouts.
In the bottom of the seventh, Morabito led off with a single and Calabrese walked with one out. Matt Alexander came off the bench and hit a bullet that seemed ticketed for center field, but the Lehigh shortstop was positioned up the middle and turned it into a 6-3 double play to end the game.
Leaman went 6.1 innings, striking out eight while walking five and allowing only two hits. Marcus Danchision faced only one batter and earned his first save.
Magovern took the tough-luck loss despite allowing no earned runs on four hits over 6.0 innings. He struck out five and walked three.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Leaman, C. (1-2)
L: Magovern, Ben (2-3)
S: Danchision,M (1)
Batting:
2B: Whitlinger,J 1
SH: Walewander,O 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Rogers, R. 1
SB: Whitlinger,J 1
Base Running:
SB: Kender, Billy 1
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