MADISON, N.J. – The Drew University baseball team cut a six-run deficit down to two late in the game, but Susquehanna University held on for an 8-6 win on Senior Day at Doc Young Field Sunday afternoon.
 
Prior to the start of the game, Drew's four seniors – Joseph Caggiano, Giovanni DeGiglio, K.J. Hallgren, and Nick Pellegrino – were honored in a brief ceremony.
 
Playing their season finale, the Rangers trailed 5-0 after four and a half innings, but scored six runs from the fifth through the eight to make it an 8-6 game. But Susquehanna reliever Dillan Weikel escaped a bases-loaded jam in the eighth before working a three-up, three-down ninth to close it out.
 
Junior Anthony Hernandez finished 3-for-5 for Drew while sophomore Raiden Yost belted a pair of doubles. Senior Billy Coleman, junior Anthony Diaz, and sophomore Dallas Lorenzetti also smacked one double each to give the Rangers five extra-base hits, tying their second-highest total of the season.
 
The two sides combined for 21 hits and 23 walks, and 11 pitchers in a game that lasted three hours and 40 minutes.
 
The River Hawks scored two runs in each of the first two innings while Susquehanna starting pitcher Tyler Rigot retired the first eight batters he faced and blanked the Rangers through the first four innings.
 
After the visitors added a run in the fifth, Drew got on the scoreboard in the bottom half on doubles from Coleman and Diaz.
 
Susquehanna went ahead 7-1 with two runs in the sixth, but the Rangers answered with three in the bottom half to slice the deficit in half. Yost led off with a double before scoring on a two-bagger from Lorenzetti. Another run scored on a groundout by sophomore Ryan Jones before Hernandez singled home a run to make it 7-4.
 
The River Hawks nudged their lead back to four with a run in the eighth, but in the bottom of the inning the Rangers answered with the final two runs of the game. Sophomore John Furch led off with a pinch-hit single before Jones followed up with a single of his own. Hernandez then reached on an infield single, and pinch-runner Mike Farinaccio scored when the ball was thrown away at first. Jones scored on a passed ball before Weikel got a strikeout with the bags full.
 
DeGiglio pitched the first 1 2/3 innings for Drew before freshman Brandon Kobryn came on to allow just one run on two hits while striking out five over 3 1/3 innings. Pellegrino, freshman Kyle Johnson, Caggiano, and sophomore Alex Barbarisi also tossed one inning apiece for the Rangers.