Baseball wraps up series win at Barry

MIAMI SHORES, Fla. -- The Eckerd Tritons baseball team split a pair of extra-inning games on Saturday to earn a series win against the Barry Buccaneers. The Tritons won game one in 12 innings by a score of 15-7 before falling in 10 innings by a score of 13-12.

Fast forwarding to the ninth inning of game one, Hunter Rebhan blasted a three-run home run with two outs to tie the game at 7-7 and force extra innings. Eckerd never led in the game until the top of the 12th when the team pushed across eight runs on six hits to go with two Barry errors. Christian Cabina delivered a go-ahead RBI single for the Tritons' first lead of the game before a wild pitch and sac fly pushed the lead out to three. Joey Bazydlo brought in the next run with an RBI double, and Ean Gimson tallied two more with a two-run single. Another sacrifice fly doubled up the Bucs at 14-7 before Cabina capped off the surge with his second RBI of the game.

Six different Tritons had multi-hit efforts in the win. Rebhan was the leader with five runs batted in, also driving in two with a double in the fifth inning. Gelwick and Bazydlo also added two runs batted in, each producing run-scoring hits in the fifth and sixth. 

Max Folkman earned the win on the mound with two scoreless innings in relief.

In game two, Eckerd jumped out to a 5-0 lead. Cabina began the scoring with a solo homer in the second, and was followed by an RBI double from Bazydlo. Gimson rounded out a three-run second inning with a sac fly. The Tritons added two more in the third on a Luis Garrido base hit and an error.

Barry added three in the bottom half of the third, but Eckerd counted with four more in the top of the fifth. Cabina and Bazydlo added to their big days with three RBI combined in the frame. Errors accounted for the Tritons' ninth, 10th, and 11th runs of the game before Corey Hodierne doubled in the team's 12th. 

The Bucs scored three runs in each of the fifth, sixth, and seventh innings to offset Eckerd's scoring outburst and result in a 12-12 tie. Neither team scored in the eighth or ninth, and Barry salvaged a game in the series with a walkoff sacrifice fly in the 10th.