Gloucester Box Score
Frederick Game 1 Box Score
Frederick Game 2 Box Score

Sophomore Mike Krider (State College, Pa./State College) led Harford against the Roadrunners (20-6), going 3-for-5 with two doubles and three RBI while freshman Jordan Lozzi (Fallston, Md./Fallston) (4-1) suffered his first loss of the season, giving up six runs (two earned) on seven hits and fanning three batters in 4.1 innings.

Harford struggled in the field against Gloucester, committing four errors, which would lead to five unearned runs, including three in the third, which gave the Roadrunners their first lead of the game after Harford opened with one run in the first off sophomore Mike Maxwell's (Salem, N.J./Woodstown) RBI single.

Krider added two more in the bottom of the third with a two-run RBI double to knot the score at three, but Gloucester would tally a total of six runs over the next four innings, while Harford just managed two on the way to the 9-5 decision.

Sophomore Willie Barnola (Barquisimeto, Venezuela/UEC J.G. Bastidas) led the Owls in the doubleheader against Frederick, going 4-for-6 on the day with two doubles, three runs and a walk.  Sophomore Mike Rappazzo (Bel Air, Md./C. Milton Wright) (2-2) was shelled for nine runs on six hits and five walks and struck out one batter in 2.1 innings to suffer the game one loss, while sophomore Jordan Heller (Loch Raven, Md./Loch Raven/Chesapeake) (1-1) had some bad luck at the plate and gave up four runs on four hits, four walks and struck out one in three innings during game two.

Harford saw the Cougars (32-2, 16-0) take a 5-1 lead after two innings, a significant deficit for the Owls, but still manageable, before Frederick blew the game wide open with six runs in the third for a 11-1 lead.

Harford fought-off the 10-run rule in the nick of time, tallying one run in the bottom of the fifth to keep the game alive thanks to Heller's RBI triple, but the effort was nullified as Frederick added three runs in the sixth and held the Owls scoreless in the bottom of the inning on the way to the truncated, 14-2 (6 inn.) win.

Game two looked to be going the same way as Frederick built a 8-1 lead after three innings, but Harford rallied for five runs in the fourth off RBI singles from Heller and freshman Alex Riley (Newark, Del./A.I. Dupont/Wesley) and a bases-clearing, three-run RBI triple by sophomore Woody Wlodarczyk (Bel Air, Md./C. Milton Wright) to put Harford within two, 8-6.

Two more runs in the fifth off a sacrifice fly from freshman Pat Liberatore (Newark, Del./Del. Military Academy) and an RBI single by Heller knotted the score at eight.  The sixth saw Heller take the mound and keep Frederick scoreless for three innings, giving up just two hits as the game went into extra innings.

Harford was also held scoreless for three innings, sending the game into the ninth inning with the score tied at eight.  Heller, who normally has a deadly curve ball and equally impressive fastball, struggled to hit home plate umpire Bob Tedeschi's miniscule and erratic strike zone in the ninth, loading the bases and then walking in the go-ahead run before sophomore Joe Harbach (Abingdon, Md./Edgewood) replaced him on the rubber. 

Harbach did not fare much better, walking his first batter to let another run cross the plate before getting the first out of the inning.  A second out immediately followed, but the sac fly added another run to the Frederick total to make the score 11-8.  The Cougars weren't done, however, three more runs on two hits before Harbach got out of the inning with the Owls down six, 14-8.

Harford saw three batters reach safely in the bottom of the ninth, but stranded two of them as Frederick earned the 14-8 extra-inning win.

The Fighting Owls look to get back on track on Tuesday as they host CCBC-Essex for a 6:30 p.m. game at Harford Baseball Field.