MADISON, N.J. (April 19, 2017) - The FDU baseball battled back from a six run deficit but ended up falling 8-6 in 10 innings to Drew Wednesday.
The Devils are now 10-14, while the Rangers are 17-11.
Drew scored once in the first, twice in the third and three times in the fourth to grab a commanding 6-0 lead after four. Rangers starter Paul Roth was kept the Devils at bay, not allowing a base-runner until the fifth inning.
 With two outs in the sixth, FDU collected its first hit, as junior
Garrett Ruoff reached on an infield hit. Two batters later, classmateÂ
Reynaldo Diaz drove him home with an RBI hit through the left side. The Devils chipped away with three more runs in the seventh, getting to within 6-4.
Junior
David Wilbur doubled in senior
Josh DellaPietro, who got on via a one-out walk. Classmate
Joseph Bonaccorso added a run-scoring groundout, and Wilbur touched home when an errant pickoff by the catcher sailed into left field. After
Kevin Brown set Drew down 1-2-3 in the eighth, Diaz and DellaPietro walked and senior
Bryan Pieschel to load the bases. Junior
Ben Dranow earned a free pass to give in a run, cutting the gap to one.
The Rangers summoned closer Tommy Broyles in to close out the game, and was greeted with a lead-off single by Ruoff. After a sacrifice bunt, Diaz drove in Ruoff to even the score. Broyles induced a double-play to end the inning, and Drew would score twice in the 10th to escape with an 8-6 win.
Ruoff and Diaz each had to hits, while freshman
Anthony Cuomo started and went six innings, fanning three. Brown and
Walter Pennett each struck out two in two innings of work.
