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EMMITSBURG, Md. – The Fairleigh Dickinson baseball team split a pair of one-run games on Saturday at Mount St. Mary's earning a 3-2 win in game one before dropping game two 7-6 at E.T. Straw Family Field.
Freshman shortstop
Oliver Tavares provided the game-winning hit in the opener and finished 2-for-3 in the victory. Freshman right-hander
Evan Raiburn earned the win with 5.2 innings of work and allowed two runs (one earned), while classmate
Aaron Cohn netted his first career save by pitching 1.1 innings of scoreless baseball.
In game two, the Knights squandered a six-run lead as the Mount earned a comeback victory for the second straight day. Second baseman Alex Kriss provided the game-winning hit in extra innings as the home team completed the win in the eighth frame.
Game One: Fairleigh Dickinson 3, Mount St. Mary's 2
The Knights trailed 1-0 in the fifth inning of the opening game before sophomore infielder
Matt Armendinger came through with a two-run single to center field.
The Mount would tie the game in the bottom of the inning on a sacrifice fly but Raiburn kept the game knotted with an inning-ending strikeout.
In the top of the sixth, the Knights put together a two-out rally. Junior catcher
Evan McDonald came through with a double down the left field line and Tavares followed with the game-winning knock.
Cohn came on in the last of the seventh to nail down the win and stranded the tying run on second by striking out Kriss to end the ballgame.
Game Two: Fairleigh Dickinson 6, Mount St. Mary's 7 (8 innings)
In game two, the Knights busted out with five runs in the first inning.
Sophomore center fielder
Brandon Seltzer began the fireworks with a leadoff triple and scored one batter later on a
Mike Veit single. With one away, McDonald tripled home Seltzer and then scored on a sacrifice fly by Tavares.
Joe O'Rourke followed with a double and then third baseman
Corbin Dunnuck capped the scoring with an opposite-field two-run single to give the Knights the 5-0 edge.
The first-game starter Raiburn -- now playing second base -- drew a bases-loaded walk to net the Knights' sixth run but the Mount took control from that point.
A triple by Jared Urban and a double by Patrick Causa in the fifth made it a 6-3 game. Myles Nicholson plated two more for the Mount with a single in the sixth to pull the home team to within one.
A pair of throwing errors by the Knights in the seventh allowed the tying run to score before starter
Corey Zeller retired the final out to send the game to extra innings.
Freshman
Chris Quijano came on in relief in the eighth and issued a leadoff walk. A sacrifice bunt and a walk set the table for the winning run to score. Kriss provided the key blow with a game-winning double to the gap in right-center field, which knocked in the winning run.
Seltzer, Tavares and Dunnuck each tallied two hits for the Knights in the loss, while Nicholson paced the Mountaineers with with a 3-for-4 effort.
These two teams close out the series on Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
