LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. – The TCNJ baseball team played its Saturday NJAC doubleheader against William Paterson at Rider University on Saturday due to the COVID-delated Class of 2020 commencement on TCNJ's campus, and the teams brought a pair of entertaining games to the neutral site. William Paterson won both games, 6-4 and 11-10. Game two went to 11 innings. Freshman catcher Ryan Goodall hit two home runs in game two.

GAME ONE: William Paterson 6, TCNJ 4
Aydon Chavis paced the TCNJ offense with two hits, and the Lions used some early William Paterson miscues to score first in the bottom of the first. The Pioneers committed two errors in the first, one on a throwing error by the catcher to allow Jack Haynes to advance to third, and another on a failed pickoff attempt that allowed Haynes to score.

WPU came back with two runs in the top of the second inning on a two-out, two-run double, and the Pioneers scored two more runs in the top of the fourth inning to increase its lead to 4-1.

TCNJ got a run back in the fourth. Avery Epstein walked and was at second when Chavis got the Lions' first hit of the game with an RBI single. Epstein scored to make it 4-2.

The score stayed there until the ninth. William Paterson added two insurance runs in the top half to make it 6-2, and the Pioneers needed those runs. In the bottom half, Chris Cote tripled home Sebastian JnoBaptiste to make it 6-3, and Cote scored on Chris Reeder's single to left. That was as close at TCNJ came, however, losing 6-4.

GAME TWO: William Paterson 11, TCNJ 10 (11 innings)
Goodall was the star of the show for the Lions, belting a pair of home runs early as the Lions raced out to a 6-0 lead.

In the first Reeder tripled home Cote to make it 1-0, and Goodall followed with his first of the day on a blast to left. TCNJ led, 3-0, after the first.

The script repeated itself in the third. This time, Reeder doubled to score Cote, who led off the inning with a triple to right center. With Reeder now at second at TCNJ leading 4-0, Goodall launched another ball into orbit, this time to left center, to make it 6-0 TCNJ.

William Paterson put up four runs in both the fifth and sixth innings to take an 8-6 lead, but TCNJ fought back to score two in the home half of the sixth to tie the game. With the bases loaded, a wild pitch allowed Epstein to score to make it 8-7. An error later in the inning brought home Joe Oczkowski to knot it at 8-8.

The Lions used clutch two-out hitting in the eighth to take a 10-8 lead. Reeder singled home Haynes to make it 9-8, and a wild pitch allowed JnoBaptiste to score one hitter later to make it 10-8.

William Paterson continued the back-and-forth by scoring two runs with two outs in the top of the ninth, and it stayed tied after TCNJ loaded the bases in the bottom of the ninth with one out but failed to score.

William Paterson took the lead for good in the 11^th with an RBI single.

Goodall and Reeder led the charge with three hits apiece. Cote, Oczkowski and Chavis all had two hits.

TCNJ returns to action on Thursday at home against Rutgers-Camden.