Center Valley, PA, (April 18, 2006) – The third pitcher of the afternoon for Kean University faced three batters and he walked all three of them as the DeSales University baseball team drew four walks and had a single in the bottom of the ninth inning to score a 9-8 come from behind win over the Cougars in non-conference action on Tuesday afternoon.

 

        Junior Jon Kensecki (Bethlehem, PA/Liberty) earned the win to improve to 2-0 on the season as he came in during the top of the ninth with two men on base and no one out and allowed just one runner to score on a sacrifice fly before inducing a 543 double play to end the inning.  Andrew Cupido took the loss for the Cougars (20-12 overall) after he walked the first batter of the ninth and allowed a one-out single before Brandon Aich entered and walked three straight to plate the tying and game-winning runs.

 

        DSU (15-13 overall) had taken a 4-0 lead early in the game on two two-out RBI singles from freshman Mike Pennington (Dresher, PA/LaSalle College), an RBI ground out from freshman Nick Repas (Abingdon, MD/Bel Air) and a wild pitch.  Kean tied the game in the sixth when they scored three times on consecutive RBI singles from Mike Manganiello and Joseph D’Andrea and a throwing error by the Bulldog catcher.

 

        From that point, each team scored in each inning with DeSales scoring just once more in the ninth to provide the final margin.  For the Bulldogs, sophomore Andrew Heard (Alexandria, VA/Hayfield) scored in the seventh on an error by KU’s first baseman after he had reached via a single with one out and senior Derek Miller (Green Lane, PA/Upper Perkiomen) knocked two runs in during the eighth inning with a one-out triple before the ninth inning rally.

 

        Pennington finished the game going 3-for-4 with two RBI’s, freshman Michael Ellard (Washington, NJ/Warren Hills Regional) was 2-for-4 with two runs scored and Miller finished with two hits and two RBI’s.