FARMVILLE, Va. – A thrilling finish went the wrong way for Longwood on Sunday afternoon against UAlbany in the series finale at Buddy Bolding Stadium.
 
The Great Danes (3-4) scored two runs to tie in the ninth and added four in the 10^th to take the game 16-12 that also gave them the series win.
 
The late runs by the visitors erased a gritty rally by Longwood that saw them score eight runs combined in the seventh and eighth to erase a seven-run deficit and take a 12-10 lead.
 
Myles Webb, James Nelson and Mac Tufts all had multi-hit and multi-RBI days for Longwood as the Lancers piled up more than 10 hits for a fourth straight contest.
 
SCORE:
 
               R             H            E
UA         16           16           1
LWU      12           11           2
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:
 
UAlbany got going with a five-run first inning and held a 6-1 lead headed to the bottom of the fourth.
 
The Lancers trimmed it to three runs in the home half of the fourth with a sacrifice fly from Tufts and first-and-third play that put Casey Gibbs home. Tufts had two RBI on the day and was 3-3 at the plate with a trio of doubles.
 
The Great Danes extended the lead to 10-3 off a three-run home run from Levi McAllister in the sixth, but the Lancers didn't quit.
 
Instead, Mikey Urbaniak had an RBI groundout in the sixth, and the offense really took off in the seventh. Carter Newman poked an RBI single to left-center, and James Nelson squeezed a double down the line to plate two more and cut the lead to two. Nelson came home on a Casey Gibbs double two batters later to cut the lead to one. Nelson went 2-5 at the plate with two RBI.
 
After Ethan Plesser put up a zero on the board in the top of the eighth, the Lancers took the lead in the home half of the inning. A wild pitch tied the game after the Lancers loaded the bases on two walks and an error on a sacrifice bunt.
 
Webb then slipped a single through the left side to score two and give the Lancers a 12-10 lead. He was 2-4 with two runs scored and two RBI on the day.
 
UAlbany provided the riposte in the top of the ninth though, taking advantage of a Lancer error to put the tying runs on bases. After an RBI groundout scored one, Ryan Ferremi blooped a single to shallow left field with two outs to even the score.
 
Longwood put the go-ahead run on base in the bottom of the ninth, but UAlbany lefthander Thomas Quin evaded the danger.
 
Meanwhile, the Great Danes sent 10 to the plate and scored four in the 10^th inning, and Quin closed the game out to record the third tight win for UAlbany in the series.
 
Three of the four games in the series were decided in the final two innings.
 
Quin (2-0) picked up his second win of the weekend with two strikeouts against one hit in two scoreless innings of work.
 
Dallas Hairfield (0-1) took the tough luck loss for Longwood, giving up four runs on four hits in the 10^th.

WHAT THEY SAID:

"I was really proud of this group and their resilience to continue to compete after a rocky start early," Noe said. "The guys never stopped believing and stuck to our process to get back into the game. The 'young bucks' of Jayson Nash, Mikey Urbaniak and Mac Tufts are doing such a good job in the bottom part of our lineup to take what's given to them and put quality swings on baseballs in the zone."

"We have to continue to get better at being present and winning each play in that given moment rahter than looking ahead to the end," Noe added. "Every out is valued the same regardless if it is in the first inning or the last. You have to get 27 of them to win the game."
 
UP NEXT:
 
This week, the Lancers added a game against Boston College on Tuesday for a midweek contest before heading to Washington D.C. for games against Towson, George Mason and Georgetown next weekend.
 
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