SALISBURY, Md. – The eighth-ranked Salisbury University baseball team settled down after falling behind early but couldn't overcome the full deficit, dropping a 5-4 decision against the Stockton Ospreys on Wednesday afternoon at Donnie Williams Sea Gull Baseball Stadium.
The Ospreys burst out of the gate with four runs in the first inning. With the bases loaded and nobody out, Joe Gmitter roped a bases-clearing triple to left and later scored on an RBI fielder's choice by Cooper Fiore. The Sea Gulls cut the deficit in half in the second, loading the bases with two out to allow
Danny Sheeler to dunk a two-run single into center to get Salisbury within 4-2.
The teams traded a run each in the fifth. Stockton scratched one across on a two-out error, then in the home fifth Sheeler walked and scored all the way from first on a
Noah Burroughs RBI double to make it 5-3. Salisbury manufactured one more in the sixth on two walks, a sac bunt, and a sac fly by
Andrew Kell to get within 5-4.
Salisbury had a chance to tie the game by putting a runner on second in the seventh and eighth but couldn't push it across. Osprey closer Reece Miller induced a trio of groundouts in the ninth to shut the door for Stockton.
GAME NOTES
The Sea Gulls will close out March with a doubleheader at Elizabethtown on Saturday. First pitch of the opener from Elizabethtown, Pa. is slated for 12 p.m. with the nightcap to follow.
Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with primary membership in the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, along with affiliate membership in the New Jersey Athletic Conference (football, men's & women's swimming) and the Coastal Lacrosse Conference (men's lacrosse). With over 500 student-athletes in 23 varsity sports, SU is recognized as one of the nation's most competitive intercollegiate athletics programs regardless of division, featuring dedicated coaches and staff that foster excellence on and off the field. The Sea Gulls have won a combined 23 team national championships, 24 individual national championships, and 202 conference championships, and have produced 50 Academic All-Americans.
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