Baseball Homers Four Times But Drops Series Finale on Sunday at Mount St. Mary's

The Central Connecticut baseball team scored 13 runs on Sunday, but it wasn't enough as they dropped a 14-13 extra-inning decision on the road at Mount St. Mary's on Sunday. With the loss the Blue Devils are now 23-18 overall and 12-12 in Northeast Conference play. Central hit four more home runs in the game, giving them 15 in the four-game series. Junior Pat Epps and senior Anthony Scialdone each homered and drove in four runs.

Epps and Scialdone each finished the game with four hits. The Blue Devils and the Mount each rattled off 22 hits in the game, and combined for 27 runs.

Senior Sean Allaire continued shine for Central, finishing the game 2-for-5 with three runs scored, two RBI and another home run. Allaire hit six home runs alone last week in six games.

Central scored four runs in the fifth inning to take an 8-6 lead. Epps hit his second grand slam in as many days in the inning. He now has 14 home runs on the season, two of the school record of 16. As a team the Blue Devils have hit 56 home runs on the season, 15 more than the previous school record with eight regular season games remaining on the year.

The Mount answered by scoring seven runs in the sixth inning to take a 13-8 lead.

Central climbed back with one in the seventh, two in the eighth and two more in the ninth inning to force extra innings. Allaire hit a two-run home run in the eighth and then Scialdone drove in two in the ninth to send the game to extra innings.

The Mount scored in the 10th to earn the split of the weekend series.

Seniors Richie Tri and Kyle Zarotney each had three hits, as did junior Sean Miller-Jones. Miller-Jones scored four times in the game.

The Blue Devils return to action on Friday, hosting Wagner beginning at 3 p.m. Central will play its final eight games of the season, all NEC contests, at home on the new CCSU Baseball Field.