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Baseball - Late Inning Magic Gives Bears Improbable Win
Adam Reckley pitched two hitless innings in relief for his first career win.
FORT MYERS, FLA.—-(3/15/07)--The Coast Guard offense which was silenced for the first seven innings scored five times in the eighth and twice in the ninth to erase a 6-0 deficit for a thrilling 7-6 come-from-behind win over New England College as junior Adam Reckley, making his first career pitching appearance, pitched two hitless innings to pickup the win in relief.
New England College (1-3) had six of its 10 hits in the third inning when they scored four times to take a 5-0 lead. The Pilgrims added another run in the fourth for a 6-0 lead.
Coast Guard starter Will Becker struggled early on, but pitched three hitless innings (4th-6th) to keep the Bears in the game.
New England College starter Andy Russell was working on a six-hit shutout heading into the top of the eighth inning before he walked Bret Nichols and Chuck Arena to end his afternoon.
Mike Newman came on to pitch and walked Ken Franklin before Brian Lisko drilled a double down the left field line to score two runs and chase Newman from the game.
Phillip Achee then came onto pitch and Kevin Higgins greeted him with a two-run double to right to cut the lead to 6-4. Kevin Keefe added an RBI ground out later in the inning and the Bears trailed 6-5.
Reckley got three ground ball outs in the home half of the eighth making just seven pitches.
Arena walked to lead off the eighth, Franklin bunted him to second and Lisko again came up big with another double down the left field line to tie the game at 6-6. Lisko moved to third on a ground out. Mike Mitchell was hit by a pitch and then Achee trying to pick Mitchell off of first threw the ball away allowing Lisko to score the eventual game winning run.
The Pilgrims thanks to a hit batter and an error had runners on first and third with one out in the home half of the ninth before Reckley rolled a double-play ball to give the Bears the come-from-behind win.
Higgins led the Bears (3-2) with three hits while Lisko had two doubles and three RBI’s.
