MADISON, N.J. – The Drew University baseball team won on a walk-off suicide squeeze bunt in the bottom of the 10th inning and the Rangers captured a wild 9-8 victory in the second game of a Landmark Conference doubleheader with Susquehanna University on Friday at Doc Young Field.
 
After the River Hawks won the opener 5-0, Drew won in thrilling fashion in Game Two, which featured five lead changes.
 
With the second game tied 8-8 and junior Anthony Hernandez on third, junior Mike Farinaccio came to the plate and bunted an 0-2 pitch back to pitcher Landon Ness. Hernandez broke on the pitch and dove headfirst across the plate as the throw from Ness sailed over the catcher, setting off a Drew celebration on the field.
 
It was just one of numerous dramatic moments in Game Two, which the Rangers led 5-2 through six innings behind senior starting pitcher Giovanni DeGiglio. But the River Hawks tied it up with three in the seventh, then went in front with another run in the eighth.
 
In the bottom half, senior Billy Coleman drilled a one-out, pinch-hit double into the leftfield corner before senior K.J. Hallgren launched his second home run of the season over the left-centerfield fence to put the Rangers up 7-6.
 
Drew was one strike away from victory in the ninth with sophomore Dominic Goodenough on the mound for his second inning of relief, but Tony Rossi blasted a solo homer to make it 7-7.
 
The Rangers had the bases loaded with two outs in the bottom of the ninth but Susquehanna escaped with a strikeout.
 
In the 10th, the River Hawks pushed across another run on a hit and two errors versus senior Joseph Caggiano. However, Drew rallied again in the bottom half, starting with a one-out single from junior Anthony Diaz before Hernandez followed up with an infield single deep in the left side. The shortstop made a diving stop, but an errant throw to second wound up rolling into foul territory, allowing Diaz to come all the way around to score. Hernandez ended up on third, setting up Farinaccio's game-winning bunt.
 
Drew led 5-1 through the first four innings, which included a two-run single from junior Luis Fuentes in the first and a solo homer from sophomore Will Fritch - his team-leading sixth long ball of the season - in the fourth. Diaz and sophomore John Furch also bunted home one run each.
 
Hallgren finished 3-for-4 in the second game while Diaz went 2-for-4 with three runs scored. Hernandez also collected a pair of hits.
 
DeGiglio pitched 6 2/3 innings and received a no-decision, scattering seven hits and striking out four. Freshman Kyle Johnson got a big strikeout to end the seventh inning before Goodenough yielded two runs over two innings. Caggiano (1-1) allowed just one unearned run in his one inning of work.
 
In the opener, Susquehanna's Dillan Weikel fired a two-hit shutout while striking out nine. Sophomore Raiden Yost started on the mound for Drew and tossed 4 1/3 innings before senior Nick Pellegrino came on to fire 4 2/3 innings, allowing just one run on two hits while striking out three.
 
The two sides are scheduled to conclude their three game series on Sunday at noon back at Doc Young Field.