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DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY
Lallis
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Winner Cairn CAIRN 4-3
14
Delaware Valley DEL VAL 3-3
Winner
Cairn CAIRN
4-3
15
Final
14
Delaware Valley DEL VAL
3-3
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 R H E
Cairn CAIRN 2 0 0 0 3 0 3 1 5 0 0 1 15 17 3
Delaware Valley DEL VAL 0 0 6 0 1 0 2 0 5 0 0 0 14 16 3

W: J. Battaglia (1-0) L: Bailey, Kyle (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Aggies Force Extras with Five-Run Ninth but Fall Short in 12 Inning Slugfest against Cairn

MYRTLE BEACH (SC)--- The Delaware Valley baseball team and the Cairn Highlanders battled in one of the longest and most action-packed games in recent memory, as Cairn took home the 15-14 victory in 12 innings.

The game featured 33 hits, six errors, 16 walks, 25 runners left on base, 13 pitchers and took four hours and 50 minutes, lasting until 2:10 a.m.

The Highlanders (4-3) struck first, scoring two runs in the top of the first inning.

The 2-0 lead held until the third inning, when the Aggies' (3-3) bats came alive. With two outs and a man on first, Timmy Lallis laced a triple to cut the lead in half at 2-1. A Jonathan Drews single tied it up at 2-2. Shawne Eldridge kept the inning going, sneaking a two-run double just inside the left field line to put DelVal ahead 4-2. After Eldridge then scored on an error, Garrett Zimmerman's RBI infield single capped the six run third inning. 

Cairn clawed their way back in the fifth, when Brian Amantia Jr. lifted a three-run home run to left field to cut the Aggie lead to 6-5.

Hank Bielen answered in the bottom half of the frame with an RBI single, pushing the lead to 7-5. 

Joe Greenwood came through for the Highlanders, hitting a two-run home run in the top of the seventh inning that narrowly cleared the short porch in right, tying the game at 7-7. Cairn would take the lead later in the inning on a passed ball.

Bielen didn't let that lead last too long, as the junior belted a two-run double in the left center field gap, putting the Aggies in front 9-8. 

In the top of the eighth, Jake Arnoldy snuck a solo home run just inside the right field foul pole to even the score at nine a piece.

The Highlanders put together their biggest inning of the ninth, scoring five in the frame. Ben Spadea singled and Tyler Fox brought a run home by reaching on an error to make it 11-9. Tyler Warr capped the inning off with a three run home run to fight field, giving Cairn a 14-9 lead heading to the bottom of the ninth.

The Aggies would not go away quietly, as they came storming back in the bottom of the ninth with five runs to tie the game at 14-14. After the first three runners reached, Jonathan Drews drew a bases loaded walk. Brendon Hoagland followed with a two-run double to right field, as the Aggies trailed 14-12. Shawne Eldridge came home on a wild pitch to bring the deficit to 14-13. With runners on second and third with one out, Garrett Zimmerman put down a suicide squeeze to score Hoagland, sending the game to extra innings.

After a scoreless 10th and 11th inning, Cairn took a 15-14 lead in the 12th off an Aggie error.

Delval put runners on first and second in the 12th, but a groundout to second base ended the game.

Timmy Lallis led the Aggies, going 4-for-6 with a triple, two runs scored, an RBI and two walks.

Shawne Eldridge went 3-for-4 with a double, two runs scored, two RBIs and a walk.

Hank Bielen was the third Aggie with three hits, going 3-for-4 with a double, three RBIs and a walk.

Brendon Hoagland, Jonathan Drews and Garrett Zimmerman each drove in two runs.

The Aggies will continue their spring break trip in Myrtle Beach Thursday against Clark University at 3 p.m.

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