The Oswego State baseball team staged a late rally to defeat visiting St. Lawrence 10-8 on Wednesday afternoon. The Lakers scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to take a 9-8 lead and held on for the victory.

Dan Erne and Kris Prikazsky provided the bulk of the offensive production for Oswego State as both players combined to go 5-for-10 with six RBI.  The Lakers, who improved to 15-10 overall, will host Plattsburgh on Sunday, April 25 at noon.  St. Lawrence fell to 14-13 on the season.

The Saints opened the game with a two-run homer by Robert Carman in the first, but Oswego State countered in its half of the frame when Prikazsky (So., Endicott, N.Y.) delivered a two-out, two-RBI single followed by another RBI hit from Brooks Beatty (Jr., Atwater, Calif.) to take a 3-2 lead. 

St. Lawrence had another big inning in the third capped off by a two-RBI triple from Carter Franz to go ahead 5-3, which was where the score remained until the bottom of the fifth.  The Lakers' Andrew Lazzaro (So., Oswego, N.Y.) led off the stanza with a single before Erne blasted a two-run shot to tie the contest. 

The Saints put together another three-run frame in the sixth as they tallied two hits and capitalized on a Laker error for an 8-5 advantage.  However, Dan Slate (Sr., Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) ripped a single that drove in Kane Share (So., Brockport, N.Y.) and Rafael Cordero (Jr., Utica, N.Y.) from second and third to pull within one run.  Later in the inning, Oswego State tied the game but took the lead when Lazzaro doubled in Mike Tarnowski.

The Lakers added an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth when Erne (Fr., Rochester, N.Y.) had a RBI-single.  Chris Nyman (Fr., Clifton Park, N.Y.) sat St. Lawrence down in order in its last at-bat to preserve the 10-8 victory and pick up the save.

Both squads had ample opportunity to generate more runs, but the Saints stranded 13 runners while the Lakers left nine on the base paths.  Jason Conde suffered the loss for St. Lawrence after pitching the fifth and sixth innings, giving up six runs on six hits.  Matt DeLuca started the game for the Saints lasting four innings, while allowing six hits and three runs. 

Dustin LeFave (Jr., Moravia, N.Y.) was the Oswego State starter went 5.1 innings and posted a stat line of four walks, four strikeouts, eight hits, and seven runs.  Dave Widrick (Sr., Lowville, N.Y.) recorded the final two outs of the sixth before Nyman allowed just one hit in the final three innings.