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Brandon Bell

Baseball

AGGIE BASEBALL OPENS FINAL SERIES OF THE YEAR WITH 8-5 TRIUMPH AT EASTERN

Box Score ST. DAVIDS (PA) – Delaware Valley College rallied from a 3-0 deficit, then held on at the end for an 8-5 victory over host Eastern University in the opener of a three-game, Freedom Conference series.

The Aggies improved to 17-19 overall and 5-14 in the Freedom while the Eagles fell to 17-17 overall and 6-13 in league action. The series will shift to Doylestown for a doubleheader on Saturday. It will be Senior Day and the season's final two games for Delaware Valley.

Eastern scored single runs in each of the first three innings for an early 3-0 advantage. The Aggies got one back in the fourth thanks to an RBI single by Cody Hudnall. They then took the lead for good by putting four on the board in the fifth inning. They notched five hits in the stanza, including run-scoring singles by Pete O'Hara and Jim Calabrese. Brandon Bell then had the big blow with a two-run single for a 5-3 lead.

Delaware Valley upped its advantage to 8-3 in the seventh as Bell (ground out) and Hudnall (single) came through with RBIs once again. Mike Anusky also knocked in a row with a single. The Eagles responded with two in the bottom of the seventh, including an RBI double by Greg DeSarro.

In the ninth, Calabrese, the starting pitcher, retired the first two Eastern batters, but back-to-back walks brought the tying run to the plate and it brought freshman Chris Kelly out of the bullpen. He struck out pinch-hitter Mark Royer to seal the win and pick up his sixth save of the year. That tied the school's single-season mark held by Joe Polkowski (2001) and A.J. DeNardo (2004) and already tied with DeNardo for second place on the all-time list. 

Calabrese picked up his first win of the year as the senior went eight-plus innings and allowed five runs (three earned) while fanning five. Bell was 1-for-5 with three RBIs while Hudnall knocked in two runs on a 2-for-4 effort. Anusky had three hits in four at-bats. Calabrese and O'Hara each had two hits and the two combined to score five runs.

DeSarro was 3-for-4 with two runs and two RBIs for the Eagles. Ernie Stiegler pitched six-plus innings and took the loss.

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