ETTRICK, Va. – The Holy Family University baseball team bounced back from a 1-2 game one loss, using a five-run fifth to take the nightcap 6-3 and clinch a season-opening series win at Virginia State on Sunday.  
 
The Trojans threatened by loading the bases with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, but Jon Martinez (Camden, N.J./Timber Creek Regional (Camden CC)) was able to induce a game-ending groundout to seal the Tigers' third victory in the four-game set.  
 
Individual Highlights

• Brian Comer (Charlotte, N.C./Independence (Bucks County CC)) reached base three times in both games, finishing the doubleheader 3-for-5 with three walks, two doubles and two runs
• Emidio Bucci (Gambrills, Md./Loyola Blakefield (York College)) reached base all four at-bats in game two, going a perfect 3-for-3 with a walk, run and RBI
• In addition to earning the save in the nightcap, Martinez scored twice as he had a double and a base on balls
• Brian Williams (Glenside, Pa./Roman Catholic (Bucks County CC)) earned the win, coming on for 2.1 innings of relief in which he allowed just one earned on two hits
• Levi Tucker (Denver, Colo./Brighton (Garden City CC)) threw the first 3.2 frames, giving up one earned on three hits
• Dalton Turner (Langorne, Pa./Neshaminy (Bucks County CC)) had a multi-hit game two, while Zach Morales (Barrington, N.J./Triton Regional (PSU-Abington)) had the big hit in the fourth with a two-run double 
• Game one starter Ricky Glascock (Waretown, N.J./Southern Regional (RCGC)) threw the first four innings, surrendering just one run on three hits

 
How it Happened
Second Game

• Back-to-back two-out hits by Martinez (double) and Bucci (single) opened the scoring in the second
• Holy Family broke the game open with all five of its runs coming with two outs
  • After a Martinez walk, Bucci single and Comer two-out single, Nick Lombardo (Willow Grove, Pa./Upper Dublin (Bucks County CC)) was hit by a pitch
  • Morales then doubled home two and after a passed ball plated the fourth run, Turner put a stamp on the frame with an RBI single
• Tucker retired 1-2-3 in the first and third and worked around a single and walk in the second, thanks in large part to Bucci throwing out a stealing baserunner
• He then worked around the first three reaching in the fourth to limit the damage to one run, with Williams getting the final out
• Virginia State got as close as 6-3 with two runs in the fifth, one of which was unearned, before threatening in the seventh

First Game

• HFU stranded the bases loaded in the first, but it was still the Tigers breaking through first as Comer's leadoff double in the third led to him coming home on Morales' sacrifice fly
  • Holy Family then left the bases loaded in the fourth as well
• Glascock had just one runner advanced to scoring position in the first four frames before VSU finally broke through in the fifth, with a leadoff single leading to two runs
• The Tigers were not able to threaten in any of their final three at-bats 

 
Up Next
Holy Family next travels to Shippensburg for a doubleheader on Friday at 12 p.m.