WOOSTER, Ohio -- Allegheny College and the College of Wooster needed an extra inning to decide Thursday's non-conference clash at Art Murray Field, but the Fighting Scots walked away with a 10-9 victory on their home diamond.

The Gators (6-5) and Fighting Scots (10-2), who received votes in the latest edition of the D3baseball.com/National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) poll, went back-and-forth throughout the contest.

In the top of the second, Allegheny scored the first run on a double by Zach Miner (Venetia, Pa./Peters Township). In the following frame, Wooster's Matt Herlick slugged a solo home run to even the score at 1-all. Down 2-1 in the fifth, Connor Kunkle (Moon Township, Pa./Moon Area) doubled and later scored on a sac fly from Ty Eberhardt (Pittsburgh, Pa./Hopewell) to tie things at 2-2.

An error in the bottom of the fifth allowed the hosts to pull ahead with a trio of unearned runs, but Allegheny regained the lead in the sixth. Following RBI base hits from Tommaso Floro (Sewickley, Pa./Quaker Valley) and Miner, Kunkle chopped the ball through the left side of the infield to plate both runners and jump ahead 6-5. Miner added another RBI with an infield ground out in the eighth before Wooster tied the score at 7-all in the bottom of the inning. With the bases loaded, Herlick drove in one run with a sac fly to center field, before Aidan Krantz scampered home from third on a rundown between first and second.

In the top of the 10th, Allegheny put two on base when a pitch hit Noah Philson (Greenville, Pa./Greenville) and Johnny Hughes (Cheswick, Pa./Springdale) earned a base on balls. However, the next two batters flew out to end the inning. Wooster's David Guilden then led off the bottom of the 10th with a triple, and after two intentional walks to create a double-play possibility, Zach Barienbrock walked off with an RBI base knock.

Inside the Box Score

• Allegheny scored seven runs on eight hits with two defensive errors.
• Wooster finished with eight runs on 13 hits and two errors.
• Three Gators finished with two hits: Liam Irving (Olney, Md./Sherwood), Miner, and Kunkle.
• Miner, who also threw 4.2 innings with five strikeouts as Allegheny's starting pitcher, added a team-high three RBIs.
• Barienbrock and Colin Leslie led all Wooster batters with three hits apiece.
• Out of the bullpen, Ryan Finamore (Pittsburgh, Pa./Quaker Valley) pitched 1.1 scoreless for the Gators.
• Harrison Ashley (Jupiter, Fla./The Benjamin School) was tagged with the loss after giving up one run in the last 1.1 innings.
• Wooster reliever Constantine Vernadakis earned the win with 2.0 scoreless innings and three strikeouts.

News and Notes

• Allegheny and Wooster have met as non-conference opponents in each of the last two seasons following the Gators' departure from the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) after the spring of 2022.
• The Gators and Fighting Scots are an even 3-3 over their last six meetings since 2021.
• Irving extended his hitting streak to eight consecutive games and has reached base safely in all 11 games this spring.
• Miner made his first collegiate start on the mound while logging his third-straight multi-hit game at the plate.

Up Next
Allegheny is home on Saturday, March 14, for a doubleheader against John Carroll University. First pitch for the series opener is scheduled for noon.