DOYLESTOWN (PA) – Number eight and nine batters Mike Otstot and Jim Calabrese combined to go 6-for-8 with four runs scored and five RBIs as Delaware Valley College rallied from an 8-4 deficit and defeated visiting King's College, 11-8, in a Freedom Conference game.

It was the first outing of a three-game series between the two teams as the scene will now shift to Wilkes-Barre for a doubleheader on Saturday. The Aggies improved to 7-19 overall and 4-12 in the Freedom with the victory. Meanwhile, the Monarchs fell to fifth place and a half game out of the final conference playoffs berth as their record dropped to 14-17-1 overall and 9-9-1 in the league.

Down four runs heading into the bottom of the sixth inning, Delaware Valley responded by sending nine batters to the plate and registering five runs on six hits. Kellen Jarrett led of the stanza with a double and scored two batters later on a run-scoring single by Jake Barben. Two batters later, Otstot singled in a run to make it an 8-6 ballgame. Calabrese followed with a two-run, game-tying single to left-center field and he moved up to second on a throw. Otstot then crossed the plate with what proved to me the game-winning run when Pete O'Hara singled to right-center.

The Aggies then added two more runs in the seventh as Jarrett led off the inning again and singled. A Barben single was surrounded by a pair of outs. Up stepped Otstot and he delivered a single through the left side that scored Jarrett and made it a 10-8 game. Calabrese then drilled a single to left to bring in Barben for a three-run lead.

Meanwhile, freshman Tyler Frounfelker, who came in from the bullpen in the sixth inning, kept the King's offense at bay. He allowed just one hit – a single in the eighth – and earned his first collegiate win.

King's jumped out to an early 4-0 lead thanks to an unearned run in the first and three tallies in the second. Matt Pritchard had the big knock in the early going thanks to a two-run double in the second.

Delaware Valley got its first hit of the game in the fourth when Zach Chodur led off with a triple. He eventually scored on a ground out by Dan Hrubos. The Monarchs responded with two runs in the top of the fifth on RBIs by Pritchard and Tim Marchetti.

The Aggies pulled to within two in the bottom of the fifth as they scored three times on a trio of hits. O'Hara brought two in with a doubled while another scored on a ground out by Gary Cooper. King's answered again, this time with two runs in the sixth, as Mike Fignar knocked in both with a single. That gave the Monarchs an 8-4 advantage before Delaware Valley rallied for the win.

Calabrese and Otstot were each 3-for-4 with two runs scored. Calabrese drove in three runs while Otstot knocked in two. O'Hara finished 3-for-5 with three RBIs while Barben and Jarrett had two hits apiece.

Pritchard was 1-for-2 with a run scored and three RBIs for King's. Fignar knocked in two runs while Rich Acierno and Anthony Re had two hits apiece. Brenton Eades suffered the loss in relief of Joe Dorbad.