FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Junior Cole Bosch went 4-for-4 while senior Jeff Serin hurled five stellar innings and the Drew University baseball team defeated Wilkes University 9-7 in the final game of its Spring Break trip to Florida.

The Rangers (5-5) closed out the trip with a 3-3 mark, out-hitting their opponents 75-59 while batting .346.

Drew piled up 16 hits versus Wilkes (3-5) and scored at least one run in five of their last six innings.

It was just a 4-2 game heading into the seventh before a combined 10 runs were scored in the last two and a half innings.

Freshman Jake Welsh finished 3-for-5 for the Rangers to finish the trip batting a stellar .579 (11-19). Senior Bryan Reagle went 2-for-4 with three runs scored while freshman Matthew Kroll and senior Brian Dagostino slugged two hits apiece. Senior Jon Cocchio added a big two-run single in the bottom of the eighth.

Serin struck out 10, including six in a row at one point, and allowed just a pair of unearned runs. Sophomore Grant Purpura (1-1) tossed three innings to earn the win in relief. 

The Rangers never trailed after scoring twice in the bottom of the third. In the meantime, Serin was in command, retiring 11 straight batters at one point while fanning the side in both the second and third innings.

The Colonels pushed across a pair of unearned runs in the fifth to make it 2-2 before the Rangers went back in front with single runs in the fifth and sixth.

Wilkes pulled even with two runs on four singles in the seventh. But Drew quickly answered once again, scoring three runs on five hits in the bottom half to go up 7-4. Bosch and senior Anthony Tagliaferro each had RBI-singles in the inning.

The Colonels scored once in the eighth to make it a two-run game before the Rangers plated a pair of big insurance runs. Kroll led off with a single before Reagle walked, and both runners scored on Cocchio's two-run single to put Drew up 9-5.

Wilkes did not go away, however, and scored twice in the ninth against reliever Brandon Radd. The Colonels had the tying run on first, but Radd got a line-out to end the game.

Upon their return North, the Rangers continue their season next Saturday, when they open Landmark Conference play with a doubleheader at Moravian beginning at 12:30 p.m.