Box Score READING (PA) – In a wild back-and-forth game, Delaware Valley College and host Albright College played to an 11-11, non-conference deadlock that was called after nine innings due to darkness and lightning in the area.
The Aggies' record moved to 13-15-1 with the tie while Lions saw its mark go to 10-14-1.
Delaware Valley took leads in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth innings only to see Albright rally to tie it each time. The Aggies had to rally once themselves as they trailed 9-7 after seven innings of play.
Down two in the eighth, consecutive singles by
Brandon Bell,
Kyle Wenger and
Corey White plated one run. Later in the inning,
Michael Anusky hit into a fielder's choice which scored Wenger for the tying run. Anusky then stole second and later scored on an error for a 10-9 Delaware Valley.
Connor Buhler then drove in his third run of the game for the two-run advantage.
It remained an 11-9 contest going into the bottom of the ninth. With one out, Albright put runners on the corners and a fielder's choice scored one but also brought the Aggies to within an out of the win. A wild pitch moved Evan High to second base and he then scored on a throwing error for the 11-11 tie.
Delaware Valley put two tallies on the board in the third inning with a two-run single by White. An RBI single by
Pete O'Hara in the fourth, an error in the fifth, and an RBI single by Bell in the sixth accounted for Delaware Valley's next three runs.
With the game tied at 5-5, the Aggies regained the lead in the seventh as Buhler smacked a two-run shot over the center field fence. Albright responded once again, this time with four runs in the bottom of the stanza, including run-scoring hits by Julian Cimino, High and Joe Pechulis, for a 9-7 lead. That led to Delaware Valley's big effort in the eighth and the Lion's final comeback in the ninth for the tie.
Bell led the Aggies' 17-hit attack by going 4-for-6 with two runs scored and an RBI. Buhler was 3-for-5 with a home run and three RBIs while Wenger was 3-for-6 with two doubles and three runs scored. Altieri and White had two hits apiece as Altieri scored two runs and White drove in three.
High was 2-for-5 with three RBIs while Nate Peiffer was 3-for-5 with a home run, two runs scored and two RBIs.
