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After being two outs away from a victory in the opener, the Albright College baseball team rallied to follow that extra innings loss with a 5-2 win in the nightcap, in a home doubleheader with Elizabethtown on Saturday.

Albright did its damage in the bottom of the fourth in game two. Down 2-0, Gabe Santone brought Tom Canuso in with the bases loaded for the Lions' first run. John Medvecky then knocked in Dylan Boll and Zach Myers singled in Jon Raymond to give the Red and White the lead.

The Lions would tack on two insurance runs in the bottom of the fifth, with Nate Peiffer and Collin Hecker coming around to score. Hecker had made an unbelievable catch in the top of the fourth, chasing a foul fly ball all the way to the out-of-bounds line and making a full-extension diving catch, just barely in play.

Junior starter Kevin O'Neill earned his second complete game conference victory of the season, scattering two runs and seven hits over seven innings. With the tying run at the plate in the last stanza, he struck out Steve Motika and got Dillon Tagle to groundout to end things.

Santone and Myers were each 2-for-4 with a run scored for Albright. For the Blue Jays, Tim Rosser was 2-for-3 with a run and Kyle Gable (2-for-4) also scored.

Albright lost the opener 10-6 in eight innings. Seniors Canuso (3-4, 2 runs), Raymond (2-3, 2 RBIs, 2 runs) and Doug Mace (2-4, RBI, run) led the way at the plate.

Motika (3-5, RBI, 2 runs) and Tyler Weary (2-4, RBI, 2 runs) led E'town. Reliever Vaclav Hasik threw two perfect innings to earn the victory.

Freshman Jared Neiheiser ultimately took the loss but got out of a huge jam in the fifth inning. Coming in with the bases loaded, just one out, and Albright clinging to a 4-3 advantage, Neiheiser struck out both Ian Smith and Pat Mulligan to protect the lead.

It held until the top of the seventh, as Kyle Gable drew a leadoff walk, was bunted along, went to third on Motika's single, and finally came home on Tagle's batted out.

In the top of the eighth, the Blue Jays ran off six runs to surge ahead. Raymond tripled in Canuso in the bottom half and then scored on Zac Okonski's single, but it was all the Lions could muster.

Albright is now 11-20, 4-8 and hosts Valley Forge Christian College on Monday.