Belmont, N.C. — The 11th-ranked Catawba College baseball team maneuvered around go-ahead runners in scoring position in three straight innings to plate five runs in the 11th inning to earn a top-25 region win at Belmont Abbey on Tuesday afternoon.

TEAM STATISTICS

- Both teams had nine hits

- Belmont Abbey recorded the lone homer and both extra-base hits

- Catawba owned both stolen bases in the contest

- The Catawba Indian pitchers allowed three runs on nine hits and three walks, striking out seven; the Crusaders' staff allowed eight runs on nine hits and nine walks, striking out eight

INDIVIDUAL LEADERS

- Joe Burleyson earned the win on the mound, allowing a run across three innings 

- Parker Lakey was solid again in the start, allowing two runs on one swing with three hits and one walk surrendered in 4.2 innings

- Brandon Crabtree went 3-for-4 with two walks, an RBI and two runs scored

- Ty Hubbard singled, drove in two and scored the go-ahead run

- Sam Hunter drove in the go-ahead run on a single

HOW IT HAPPENED

FOURTH INNING

- Belmont Abbey scored the game's first runs on a two-out, two-run homer in the fourth

EIGHTH INNING

- Belmont Abbey forced a strikeout with two outs, but the ball got away from the Crusaders' catcher, allowing Catawba to extend the frame with runners on the corners

- Jack Cuba's pinch-hit infield single got Catawba on the board

- Hubbard came through with the go-ahead hit with two RBI to go up 3-2

- A one-out double put runners on second and third for Belmont Abbey in the bottom half

- A sacrifice fly scored the tying run; Burleyson got the groundout to strand the go-ahead runner at third

NINTH INNING

- Belmont Abbey singled and bunted over its runner to start the ninth

- A flyout moved the potential winning number up to third

- Burleyson forced a flyout to extend the game to extras

TENTH INNING

- Two singles put two runners on base for the Crusaders with two down in the tenth

- Burleyson forced the flyout to continue the game

ELEVENTH INNING

- Hubbard drew a leadoff walk in the 11th

- A bunt moved him over to second, which allowed Hunter's single up the middle to score the go-ahead run

- Another sacrifice bunt pushed a potential insurance run in scoring position

- Crabtree drove Hunter home with a single to right-center

- A single and a hit-by-pitch loaded the bases, where Logan Dyer's RBI walk pushed Catawba's lead to 6-3

- Kylan Odean's first collegiate hit added two more runs to take a five-run lead to the bottom half

- Braeden Major struck out the final two batters in a 1-2-3 inning to complete the comeback win

UP NEXT

- Catawba returns to South Atlantic Conference play at Newman Park this weekend; game one of the series is set for 5 p.m. on Friday