SALISBURY, MD – The Oswego State Lakers Baseball team split a pair of contests in their first action of the season at nationally ranked Salisbury.  Graduate student Ryan Enos and senior Julian Drew led the Lakers on the day, each batting 4-for-6 while drawing two walks. 

THE BASICS

• Final Scores:  Salisbury 15, Oswego 2 ; Oswego 3, Salisbury 2
• Location:  Sea Gull Baseball Field, Salisbury University, Salisbury Md.
• Records:  Oswego 1-1, Salisbury 3-4

HOW IT HAPPENED
Game 1

• Oswego opened the scoring in the opening frame, with Kyle Lauria stealing second and Enos scoring from third on the double steal.
• Salisbury answered in the bottom of the first, scoring two unearned runs to take a 2-1 advantage.
• In the second, the Sea Gulls added two more unearned runs to go up 4-1.
• An Enos hit-by-pitch and two singles by Drew and Ryan Weiss in the top of the third cut the Salisbury lead, 4-2.
• Oswego would claw for multiple opportunities, but 11 straight Sea Gull runs would prove to be too much to handle.
• Kyle Lauria added a hit to the ledger and Enos scored both of the Laker runs in the game.

Game 2

• Salisbury jumped out to a 2-0 lead after the first three innings, scoring one of the runs unassisted.
• Drew led off the top of the fourth with a double down the left field line, and later scored on a wild pitch to trim the lead down to one.
• Salisbury threatened in the bottom of the fifth, but freshman Colin Williams gunned down a player attempting to steal second.
• In the top of the sixth, a Sea Gull throwing error and a Frank Levanti single would push across Weiss to tie the game at two.
• Both teams had opportunities in the seventh and eighth innings, but the game would ultimately stay  knotted up, 2-2.
• Enos tallied his fourth hit of the day with a single to kick off the top of the ninth inning for the Lakers.
• A sacrifice bunt by Lauria, who then reached by an error, would put two men on base with no outs for Oswego.
• Weiss would come up clutch, pushing across Enos with a base hit to the left side, giving the Lakers their first lead of the game, 3-2.
• In the bottom of the ninth, Salisbury would threaten the lead with runners on second and third with one out, but Ben Wilcox would shut the door on a strikeout and a line out to end the game.
• Anthony Van Fossen threw six dominant innings, striking out five and allowing one earned run in the no-decision to give Oswego their first win of the season.
• The difference in game two proved to be strong Oswego pitching, holding the Sea Gulls to only two hits and 11 hits by the Laker offense.

 WHAT'S NEXT
Oswego State will look to capitalize on their momentum and finish off the three-game series versus Salisbury at 12:00 P.M. tomorrow.