Box Score Farmville, Va. -- Longwood
rallied from a 4-1 deficit with the help of two breaks in the
seventh inning to defeat the Youngstown State baseball team 11-4 on
Monday at Lancer Stadium.
The Lancers spoiled a solid first start
by YSU sophomore Cody Dearth, who allowed one earned run in six
innings and left with a 4-2 lead in the seventh inning.
Jacke Healey doubled for the seventh time
in nine games and had three RBIs to lead YSU, which has seen a late
lead evaporate in the last three games. John Koehnlein, Eric Marzec
and Casey Holland added two hits apiece.
The game turned in the seventh inning
with YSU still up by two. Longwood had runners at the corners with
one out and got a favorable call for the first of two bad breaks
for the Penguins. Third baseman C.J. Morris fielded a grounder, and
the field umpire ruled he missed the tag on the lead runner going
back to third. With the bases loaded, a double-play ball to Healey
at short took an erratic hop over his head and allowed two runs to
score. Robby Newman then brought in the go-ahead run on a sacrifice
fly that, at worst, would have ended the inning with YSU still up
one without the bad-hop single.
The Lancers then pounded out six runs on
five hits and two walks in the eighth for the final score.
John Walker II earned a complete-game
victory for the Lancers (8-6), allowing three earned runs on 10
hits in his third win. Trent Wood was charged with his first loss
in relief.
The Penguins jumped on Walker II in the
first inning with three runs on four hits. After Koehnlein reached
on an infield single to start the game and advanced on David Leon's
sacrifice, Marzec and Healey hit back-to-back doubles. Casey
Holland then singled home Healey two batters later for the third
run.
Walker II got out of the third on one of
three double plays that Longwood turned, and the Lancers scratched
a run across in the bottom half thanks to a two-base error on a
bunt single.
The Penguins got the run back in the
fifth when Leon reached on an error and scored after Marzec and
Healey had back-to-back singles. They had runners at the corners
with one out when Walker II induced his third double play in as
many innings.
YSU will play the next two days at James
Madison. Tuesday's game will begin at 3 p.m.