Eagles cut down by Le Moyne rally 10-6
Seven unanswered runs over the seventh and ninth innings led Le Moyne to a 10-6 comeback win over the FGCU Eagles Friday night in the start of a three-game weekend series at Swanson Stadium.
The Eagles owned a 6-3 lead through six innings, but were undone by four runs from the Dolphins (13-23) in the seventh and three more in the ninth that handed the Eagles (19-20) their third loss of the week.
A bright spot in the game was the Eagles’ bats supplying double-figure hits for the seventh time in the last 12 games. Senior Tim Roberson led the 12-hit attack by going 2-for-5 with a pair of doubles and three RBI. Three other players had multihit nights while the first eight batters in the lineup had at least one base knock.
Unfortunately, for the Eagles, Le Moyne was just as hot at the plate with 14 hits. Seven of those hits came off FGCU starter Austin Gaines, who left with the lead after 6 2/3 innings. Gaines, who made the second start of his career, gave up five runs and struck out three in a no-decision.
Senior Jack Wagoner replaced Gaines with two outs in the seventh and gave up two straight hits and was charged with giving up the eventual game-winning run in the loss. Junior Jason Forjet got the final out of the seventh and stopped the bleeding with a scoreless eighth before the Dolphins got three more insurance runs off junior Jacob Barnes in the ninth.
The Eagles took a 1-0 lead in their first at-bat when Roberson drove in his program-leading 168th run on a double to right center field.
Gaines held the Dolphins at bay until they tied the game in top of the fourth. The Eagles bounced right back in the bottom of the inning with three runs to take back the lead at 4-1.
Freshman Jake Foley doubled home sophomore Mike Reeves, who led off the inning with his sixth double in April. The final two runs came from another freshman, Sean Dwyer, who drilled a two-run double to cap the frame.
Reeves’ double was part of a 2-for-4 night at the plate as he stretched his hit streak to eight games.
The second game of the weekend series is at 2 p.m. Saturday.