AUBURNDALE, FL.- After a lightning delayed start, the TCNJ baseball team bounced back well on Monday evening, winning on a walk-off of their own in a 10-9 victory over SUNY Cobleskill.
 
The winning play came in the bottom of the ninth with Mike LaGravenis on first, Jack Haynes on second and Zach Weiner at the plate with no outs. Weiner put down a sacrifice bunt to the pitcher, but an errant throw from him over the first baseman's head scored Haynes and sealed the victory for the Lions.
 
The Tigers scored the first four runs of the contest in the first two innings off Jackson Malouf on five hits. TCNJ would erase that deficit in the bottom of the third, scoring five runs on two hits with two errors. Timely back-to-back singles through the left side from Justin Marcario and Michael Schumacher tied the game and took the lead for the Lions respectively.
 
Cobleskill found the equalizer in the top half of the fourth with a two out single up the middle. TCNJ tacked on another run in the bottom half of the same frame, coming off a Ryan Goodall sac-fly that scored Haynes to extend the lead back to one.
 
In the sixth, a two out Andrew Fernandez single to left field scored LaGravenis to bring the TCNJ lead to 7-5.
 
Coming in relief for Malouf in the fifth was Drew Lukomski-LaPolice, who put up three innings of scoreless relief for TCNJ. He got out of a serious jam in the seventh, managing to escape unscathed from a bases-loaded, one out situation.
 
In the eighth, the Tigers hit their stride, scoring four runs on five hits off Matt Santos to regain the lead. TCNJ immediately found the answer in the bottom half with a chopper over the third baseman's head coming off the bat of Zach Hochheiser. The single would score Chris Reeder and Zach Weiner to deadlock the game at 9-9.
 
The winning pitcher for TCNJ, Alec Schwartz came on in the ninth and got the bounce back performance that he needed, retiring the side, and bringing the Lions in to score the eventual game-winning run.
 
LaGravenis, Marcario and Haynes all recorded multi-hit games as the trio went a combined 6 for 12 on the evening with 3 runs scored by Haynes and two by LaGravenis.
 
The Lions head right back to Auburndale tomorrow, March 14^th for a double-header with Amherst College starting at 4:30 PM.