YORK (PA)--- After falling behind 9-0 after four innings, the Delaware Valley baseball team stormed back with eight total runs over the fifth and sixth innings before tying the game in the eighth and winning 11-10 in ten innings at York College in a Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) crossover contest.
The win was the fourth in a row for the Aggies (11-13) in four days, with each victory coming by one run and the second that was won in extra innings.
Joe Capobianco put York (14-14) on the board first with a first inning three-run homerun. Michael Tinneny drove in the fourth run of the frame with a double.
After Austin Denlinger's three run blast in the second extended the lead to 7-0, Capobianco launched his second long ball of the game in the fourth to give the Spartans a 9-0 advantage.
The Aggies got the bats rolling in the fifth and after the visitors loaded the bases with one out, Hank Bielen cleared the bases with a grand slam to left field for his first career homerun. The very next batter, Kenny Tunison, followed suit with a solo shot down the right field, his second of the year, to cap off a five-run-fifth for DelVal.
The bats stayed hot in the sixth, as the Aggies pushed three more runs across, but this time with no extra base hits in the inning. Shawne Eldridge drove in the first run with an RBI single and he would later come around to score on a wild pitch. Tunison brought home a run when he grounded into a double play.
Eldridge, who finished with four hits, led off the top of the eighth with a homer to left, evening the score at 9-9.
York threatened in the bottom of the eighth with the bases loaded and two outs, but Ethan Saxe came on in relief and picked up a strikeout to work out of the jam.
After neither team could push a run across in the ninth, the Aggies broke through for a pair of runs in the tenth on an RBI single by Garrett Zimmerman and a sacrifice fly by Jimmy Kelly to lead 11-9.
Capobianco led of the bottom of the tenth with a double for the Spartans. After Saxe recorded a fly out and a strikeout, Tinneny came through with an RBI double to trim the Aggie lead to 11-10 and put the tying run 180 feet away. Saxe came through for DelVal and got a lineout to end the game.
Saxe earned his second win of the season allowing one earned run in 2.1 innings of work in relief.
As a whole, the Aggies had 19 hits, their second-highest total in a game this season.
Shawne Eldridge recorded the first four-hit game of his career, going 4-for-6 with a homerun, double, three runs scored and two RBIs. Hank Bielen went 3-for-6 with a grand slam while Kenny Tunison went 3-for-5 with a solo homerun. Blake Ramos recorded a hit in all three at-bats off the bench. Timmy Lallis, Bobby Bright and Garrett Zimmerman each had two base knocks for the Aggies.
York was led by a four-hit day from Michael Tinneny and two-homerun game from Joe Capobianco. Austin Denlinger added three hits and a homerun for the Spartans.
The Aggies will have a day off before returning to MAC Freedom play on Friday at first place Arcadia.
