AUBURNDALE, Fla. – The Drew University baseball team won its fifth game in a row and improved to 3-0 on its spring break trip to Florida with a 9-5 victory over Minnesota Morris Sunday morning.
 
The Rangers (5-2) never trailed after scoring two runs in the top of the first. It was a 5-4 game heading into the eighth before Drew scored four runs over the last two innings.
 
The Cougars (1-6) put the tying run on deck with one out in the bottom of the ninth, but senior Connor Ruscansky came on to strike out a pair of batters to pick up his third save of the year.
 
Sophomore Graham Ross pitched 3 1/3 innings in relief to earn the win, allowing just one run and one hit while striking out four. Senior Anthony Diaz Jr. went 3-for-4 at the plate while fifth-year Anthony Hernandez, freshman Frank Master, and freshman Redsy Klein picked up two hits apiece.
 
Drew pushed across a pair of unearned runs in the first before freshman Anthony Vallaro singled home a run in the third to make it 3-1. The Rangers edged in front 5-2 in the sixth on a sacrifice fly from senior Dallas Lorenzetti and an RBI-single from Hernandez.
 
Morris scored single runs in the sixth and seventh to make it 5-4, but the Rangers opened up some breathing room in the eighth, when a pair of Cougar errors led to three more unearned runs. Diaz and Master both singled in the inning while senior Raiden Yost knocked in a run with a sacrifice fly.
 
In the ninth, Diaz bunted a pair of runners over before freshman Zach Maxwell tacked on an insurance with another Drew sac fly, making it 9-4.
 
Senior Kenny Yonker started on the mound and pitched two innings for the Rangers and was relieved by Ross. Senior Nic Curcio came on to throw 1 1/3 innings, yielding just one unearned run on one hit, before sophomore Tyler Bell tossed 1 2/3 innings, including the first out in the ninth. But after Morris loaded the bases and scored on a sacrifice fly, Ruscansky was summoned out of the pen and set down a pair of Cougars swinging.
 
The Rangers continue their five-day, six-game trip on Tuesday, when they face Anna Maria College in a doubleheader starting at 1:30 p.m.