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Sea Gulls win first round CAC game in 11 innings

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The No. 9 Salisbury University baseball team defeated Catholic University in the first round of the 2007 Capital Athletic Conference tournament here Wednesday in 11 innings, 3-1. The win snapped the longest losing streak of Salisbury's season at four games.

Salisbury (23-7), the No. 4 seed, broke a 1-1 tie in the 11th inning on a two-run double off the bat of senior Pete Callahan. Fellow senior Alex Vitale and freshman Mike Celenza came around to score to give the defending CAC champions their first lead of the game.

Sophomore pitcher Eric Willey (3-0) allowed his only hit in 5.2 innings of relief work in the bottom of the 11th but the third-seeded Cardinals weren't able to prolong the game. Willey earned the victory as he struck out eight and walked one.

Catholic (15-17) took an early 1-0 lead in the second inning when sophomore Christian Tintle doubled and scored teammate Sean Earley.

The score remained 1-0 until the seventh inning when Catholic starting pitcher Andrew Moldawer was relieved by Brendan McGowan. Vitale led off with a strikeout but reached first base on an error by Cardinal catcher Patrick Quintana. Vitale advanced to third base on two consecutive SU ground outs and scored on a McGowan wild pitch to knot the game at one.

The game featured a pitchers dual throughout as SU starter Tom Howell and Moldawer locked up for the low scoring affair. Howell pitched 5.1 innings, surrendered one run on three hits, walked three and struck out five CUA batters. Moldawer went six scoreless innings where he gave up two hits, four walks and struck out one.

This was the first-time in SU coach Doug Fleetwood's era that the Sea Gulls faced a higher seeded team in the first round of the conference tournament.

Salisbury turns back around to face No. 2 seed University of Mary Washington tomorrow (April 19) for a second round CAC tournament game which starts at 3:30 p.m. The Eagles defeated fifth-seeded St. Mary's (Md.) College 16-2 in Tuesday's first round game. UMW swept a home-and-home series against the Sea Gulls last week.

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