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Seth Dardar
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9
Winner Columbia COL 5-6
7
Troy TROY 13-4
Winner
Columbia COL
5-6
9
Final
7
Troy TROY
13-4
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Columbia COL 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 9 14 2
Troy TROY 0 2 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 7 11 1

W: Vaughn, James (1-2) L: Manning, Noah (1-1) S: Tucker, Justin (2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Dardar’s Home Run Carries Baseball To 9-7 Win Over Troy

Lions fight back after surrendering seven unanswered runs

TROY, Ala. — Columbia baseball earned a 9-7 come-from-behind victory over Troy on Tuesday night at Riddle-Pace Field.

Trailing 7-6 in the eighth inning, Seth Dardar launched the game-winning two-run home run deep into the Alabama night to put Columbia (5-6) in front, 8-7, in the first meeting ever between the two teams.

In the bottom of the eighth, James Vaughn got a ground ball to start a double play and then a strikeout to strand the tying run and protect the lead. The right-handed reliever tossed three scoreless innings that included three strikeouts to earn his first win of the season.
 
Hayden Schott tacked on an insurance run in the ninth with an RBI double to give Columbia a two-run advantage and Justin Tucker pitched a scoreless ninth to earn his second save this year. Troy fell to 13-4 on the season with the loss.

Andy Blake went 3-for-5 with two solo home runs while Griffin Palfrey, Weston Eberly, Cole Hage, and Schott all recorded multi-hit games on Tuesday night.

Blake got the Lions on the board first for the eighth-straight game with his second home run of the season in the top of the first off Trojans starting pitcher Ben Thompson.

Columbia added its second run of the inning on an Eberly single to score Schott after he had doubled off the high wall in right field. Eberly's 10th RBI of the season gave the Lions a 2-0 lead before Troy came to bat. 

The Lions doubled the lead to 4-0 in the second inning. Hage was hit by a pitch and Jack Kail walked. The reigning Ivy League Player of the Week Palfrey singled to bring Hage home, moving Kail to third. Kail would then score on a wild pitch.

Troy got on the board in the bottom of the inning. With runners on second and third base with two outs, Lance Gardiner laced a two-run single to make it 4-2. Dane Miller got the start for the Lions and went two innings, allowing those two runs on two hits with two walks and two strikeouts.

Columbia threatened for the third straight inning, getting runners to second and third with two outs. Skye Selinsky and Hage both singled but Kail was unable to drive them in. The Lions had six hits through the first three innings.

The Trojans scored two runs in the home fourth to tie the game at 4-4. Gardiner drove in his second run of the game on a safety squeeze that he would beat out. Ethan Kavanagh then knocked an RBI single off Brandon Madrigal. Madrigal was able to strand two runners in an inning where Troy recorded four hits. 

Troy followed up with a three-spot in the fifth off Jafar Vohra. Just like the previous inning, Gardiner and Kavanagh drove in runs for the Trojans that helped score seven unanswered and take a 7-4 lead. 

In the sixth inning, Blake's second solo home run of the night made it a 7-5 ballgame. Following the home run, Schott and Eberly both reached on a walk and single to put two on with one out. Troy's Brandon Schrepf was able to work out of the jam, getting a strikeout and a groundout.

The Lions continued to fight back in the seventh when Palfrey drove in his second run of the game to bring Troy's lead to one. Columbia had the tying runner on first with two outs but Blake struck out to retire the side. 

Columbia is right back at it on Wednesday for its final game in Alabama against Samford with first pitch set for 5 p.m. at Joe Lee Griffin Field. For the latest on Columbia baseball, follow @CULionsBaseball on Twitter and Instagram, and the web at GoColumbiaLions.com.
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