ANNADALE, N.Y. – A rally starting in the fourth inning gave the Plattsburgh State baseball team (2-1) a 10-8 win over Bard College (2-1) on Friday at Honey Field.
Senior
PJ Weeks (Bayport, N.Y./Bayport-Blue Point) took the win for Plattsburgh State after coming in to pitch the last seven innings.
Weeks recorded five scoreless innings and allowed four hits, one run, walked two and struck out seven.
Senior
Patrick Bryant (Center Moriches, N.Y./Center Moriches) led the Cardinals with two runs and two RBIs while senior
Jon Craft (Smithtown, N.Y./Smithtown West) had one hit, two runs and two RBIs.
Junior
Keller Kowalowski (Plattsburgh, N.Y./Beekmantown) and sophomore
Simon Alvarez (Poughkeepsie, N.Y./Arlington) each had two hits, one run and one RBI.
Bard had a 4-0 lead after the first scoring off a fielder's choice, a two-run single and a wild pitch.
Junior
Niko Siragusa (Shirley, N.Y./ Longwood) reached first on a fielder's choice, stole second, advanced to third on a throwing error and scored off a wild pitch in the second.
Bard scored three more runs in the third off a double, an error and a sacrifice fly.
The Cardinals started their comeback in the fourth.
Alvarez hit a double to left field to plate junior
Stephen Lydon (Port Jefferson Station, N.Y./Suffolk CC) and Craft scored on a throwing error in the fifth to trail 7-3.
The Cardinals scored three runs in the sixth.
Junior
Mike Onufrak (Mattituck, N.Y./Mattituck) scored off a single from junior
Stephen Bryant (Center Moriches, N.Y./Center Moriches), Craft scored off a single from Kowalowski and S. Bryand scored off a sacrifice fly from P. Bryant.
Bard recorded one run in the sixth off a single to right field.
Craft hit a two-run single to center field to plate senior
Jordan Godfrey (Castleton, Vt./Rutland) and Alvarez to tie the game 8-8 in the seventh.
P. Bryant hit a single to right field to score Kowalowski in the eighth and sophomore
Erik Matz (Medford, N.Y./Patchogue-Medford) scored in the ninth off a single from Onufrak.
The Cardinals defense held off Bard for the last three innings to help complete the comeback.
Plattsburgh State will play SUNY Purchase on Saturday in a doubleheader starting at 12 p.m.