Northeastern rallies in the ninth to beat UMass Lowell 3-2

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Sometimes, baseball can be a cruel game. A good example of this took place on Tuesday night at Lelacheur Park in Lowell. The Northeastern Huskies (19-24) could muster only one hit against River Hawks (11-31) pitching. But a combination of hit batters, seven Huskies batters plucked on the night, an error in judgment late in the game by Lowell’s infield defense, and walks, allowed Northeastern to plate three runs. This was enough to defeat the River Hawks by the score of three to one.

Both coaches, Mike Glavine of the Huskies and Ken Harring of UMass Lowell, used the mid-week game to give some pitchers much-needed work on the mound. David Hoar got the start for the River Hawks. He was fantastic through his five innings of work. His line of one hit, two walks, and three strikeouts would be an indication of how good he was. The five innings was his longest outing of the season. The one drawback was the five hit batsmen in his outing. He came into the game having hit only three.

For Northeastern, the ball was handed to Tyler Brown (3.2 IP two hits, one earned run, four walks, two strikeouts). He too was pretty good. His one hiccup came in the fourth inning. It started with a leadoff walk to Andrew Roden that was followed by one-out back to back singles by Vinnie Martin and Ciaran Devenney. It would be Devenney’s single to right that scored Roden from second to make it one to nothing River Hawks through four.

Lowell made it 2-0 vs the Huskies bullpen in the seventh. Brian Rodriguez was sharp in his three-plus innings on the hill. Never more so than in the sixth when he struck out the heart of the Lowell lineup. He got himself into trouble by issuing a leadoff walk to Martin. Devenney would lay down a bunt that would become an infield bunt base hit. Martin moved up a base. One out later, number nine hitter Mark Tumosa singled off the glove of first baseman Corey DiLoreto to load the base with one down. River Hawks leadoff man, Robert Gallagher, came through with a base hit to left field scoring Devenney to give the River Hawks a two nothing lead.

After Hoar’s five innings, Harring went to his bullpen and called on Blaise Sclafani to keep the Huskies at bay. It almost worked, but in the Huskies eighth, they broke through to tie the game. Once again a leadoff base on balls got things rolling. Jeff Costello earned it, moved to second on a wild pitch, and would score Northeastern’s first run on a bad decision by River Hawks SS Tumosa. He fielded a routine ground ball hit by Scott Holzwasser and instead of taking the sure out at first, went for Costello heading for third. His throw sailed past third baseman Joey Castellanos and allowed Costello to score. Two to one Lowell. It did not stay that way for long. Holzwasser moved to third on good situation hitting by Jared Dupere who gave himself up by grounding out to second base. The Huskies then tied the game at two on a sac fly to center by Kyle Peterson.

In the ninth, the comeback was completed vs the third Lowell pitcher of the night, Gerry Siracusa (1-3). Walks and wild pitches would be Siracusa’s undoing. He would walk the nine-hole hitter Spenser Smith, however, Siracusa would get bailed out when Smith was thrown out trying to steal second by Devenney. But leadoff man DiLoreto followed with a walk, moved to second on a wild pitch, and advanced to third on a ground out to first by Jake Rosen. He scored the go-ahead run on the second wild pitch of the inning by Siracusa. Three to two Northeastern.

Coach Mike Glavine then went to his closer Andrew Misiaszek to close the door on the River Hawks. And he did just that. He would need only twelve pitchers to pick up his eighth save of the season and give his team a nice come from behind win. After the game, coach Harring called it “a tough loss, giving up only one hit and still lose”. On the hit batters, he said: “the Huskies came into this game with sixty-one hit by pitch as they crowd the plate and make it difficult on pitchers”. On the plus side, he was very pleased with Hoar’s outing saying “we need that lefty out of the bullpen going forward”.

The win goes to the third Huskies hurler of the night, Rick Burroni (1-0). Lowell gets back into conference play in America East this weekend on the road at Hartford.

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