For the second time this week, The College of Wooster baseball team walked off an opponent 8-7 in the 10th, and Sunday it was against Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg, and that handed the Fighting Scots the series win at Art Murray Field.
First-year left fielder
Bennett Grossman was Sunday's walk-off hero, ripping a single to left field to score first-year shortstop
Noah Lindberg. Lindberg walked and stole second prior to scoring the winning run.
Wooster (12-3) needed ninth-inning heroics, scoring three times to answer Penn State Harrisburg's (8-6) five-spot in the top of the frame. The Scots' stuck immediately, scoring all three runs to tie the game before recording an out.Â
One swing of the bat is what it took, as sophomore third baseman
Maanav Bhatt nailed a game-tying three-run homer to the power alley in right center. Senior catcher
Colin Leslie and sophomore second baseman
Luke Rizzo hit back-to-back singles through the sides of the infield prior to Bhatt sending out of the park.
In the top of the inning,
Alexander Ruiz cleared the bases with a go-ahead three-run double.Â
Elsewhere, Leslie hit his second homer of the series and threw out his ninth runner trying to steal.
Senior
Jack Spring started and fired seven strong innings. The right-hander allowed two runs on six hits and struck out four. Junior
Constantine Vernadakis earned the win, tossing 1 1/3 scoreless innings of relief.
Bhatt ended the game 2-for-3 with four RBI. Leslie matched the third baseman with two hits.
Ruiz's big stick pounded out three hits and he drove in four.
Drew Barshinger was the losing pitcher. He worked 1 1/3 innings of relief.
Sam Thompson started and gave up three runs in four innings.
Next, Wooster plays five games in Texas. The trip gets underway with a game at Southwestern University (4-12) at 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday, March 17.