Baseball Drops 13-12 Slugfest At St. Leo
Senior Daren Grabowski Notches Fives Hits Including His Fourth Home Run Of The Season
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
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6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 13 | 2 |
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4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | X | 13 | 11 | 11 |
St. Leo, Fla.-The University of Bridgeport baseball team held a 6-0 lead after the top of the first inning and led 11-9 heading to the bottom of the eighth, but the host St. Leo College Lions plated four in the eighth and then held off a UB rally in the top of the ninth inning to post a 13-12 slugfest win in Florida on Monday night. The Purple Knights slip to 1-11 overall, and the Lions raise their season record to 18-2, and St. Leo has won 14 in a row.
Senior Daren Grabowski (Berlin, Conn.) continued his torrid streak at the plate going 5-for-6 with two runs batted in and four runs scored. Grabowski led off the game with a mammoth home run, his fourth big fly of the early season.
Classmate Jose Negron (New Haven, Conn.) had three hits and drove in a pair, and graduate student Tom Rinaldi (Waterbury, Conn.) drove in three runs and had two hits for UB.
The same two teams will close out their four-game series in the Sunshine State on Tuesday night at 6:00 p.m.