Winter Haven, Fla. – The Trinity College Bantams plated six runs in their final at bat to secure a 10-9 win over the Babson College Beavers, after an earlier 4-2 loss in a RussMatt Central Florida Baseball Invitational doubleheader today at Chain of Lakes Park. Trinity moves to 5-4 on the year with today's split. Trinity resumes their spring Florida trip with a NESCAC doubleheader against Hamilton tomorrow, starting at 2 p.m.

Game two was not short on action. Babson broke a 4-4 tie with five runs in the top half of the seventh inning, highlighted by doubles off the bats of sophomore Joe Zanca (Braintree, Mass.) and classmate Sean MacPhee (Framingham, Mass.). Trailing, 9-4, heading into the bottom half of the inning, the Bantam offense, having scored just eight runs in their past three games, faced their biggest test of the season.

Babson recorded a quick out to start the frame, but Trinity chipped away, drawing two straight walks followed by two straight singles to score a run and load the bases. Babson picked up the second out, holding to a 9-5 lead that would soon disintegrate. Senior Evan Sternberg (Glen Ridge, N.J.) worked a pinch-hit RBI walk, and on the ensuing play, runners advanced on a wild pitch to bring the score to 9-7. Trinity senior Alex Almeida (Bridgeport, Conn.), who recorded three hits and a walk in the game, blasted one his two doubles into the left-center gap that cleared the bases and tied the game at 9-9. Senior co-captain Michael Rueger (Teaneck, N.J.) promptly followed with a perfectly-placed bloop single, just out of reach of two Babson defenders, plating Almeida and giving Trinity the unlikely victory.

The walk off win was a boost to Trinity, having suffered a 4-2 loss earlier in the day to the same Babson team. Trinity broke a scoreless tie in the fourth inning of game one with a well-hit RBI single by senior Joe Papa (Stoneham, Mass.). Trinity went back on top, 2-1, with a sharp line drive RBI single by sophomore Bryan Wolfe (La Habra Heights, Calif.) in the top of the sixth inning. But Babson answered again with three runs in the bottom of the frame, highlighted by an RBI double by MacPhee that put the Beavers on top for good, 4-2.

Trinity junior righties Peter Burrows (Floral Park, N.Y.) and Patrick Carbone (North Wales, Pa.) posted similar pitching lines as today's starters against a quality Babson lineup. Burrows went 5.2 innings and Carbone went five, each allowing four runs on seven hits.

"We have been like Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde on this trip," Head Coach Mark Lambert said after the game. "It is hard to tell which team is going to show up, but we showed great pride in coming back today. Hopefully we can take today into tomorrow."