Baseball Splits With Visiting Harford

ARNOLD, Md. – The Anne Arundel Community College baseball team split an MDJUCO doubleheader with visiting Harford Community College Tuesday at Skip Brown Field. The Riverhawks held on to an early lead to win the first game, 9-5, before a comeback bid fell short in a 13-7 loss in the nightcap.

Game One

AACC scored four runs in the first and five in the second before allowing four Harford runs in the third. Russell Turner went 3-for-4 with four RBI to pace the Riverhawks. Conner Bosley and John Greenawalt also drove in runs for AACC. Sam Ross and Chris Ricks each stole a pair of bases.

Ross led off the game with a single and moved ahead on a Greenawalt sac bunt. After Nicco Holland singled to put runners on the corners, AACC scored three runs on back-to-back singles to right from Bosley and Turner. Ricks reached on a fielders choice before stealing second and third to set him up to score on a Sebastian Casanova single up the middle.

In the second, AACC scored five on just two hits. Ross turned a walk into a spot on third with a pair of stolen bases and scored on a Greenawalt single. Holland and Bosley drew walks to load the bases and set up a two-run single to center from Turner to make it 7-0 Riverhawks.

With Bosley on third and Turner on first, Ricks got hit by a pitch to load the bases before all three advanced one bag each to make it 8-0. The ninth run came as Donny White drew a bases-loaded walk. A strike out and ground out ended the inning.

Harford responded in the top of the third with four runs on three hits, including a three-run homer to right by Rueben Livingston. The Owls' final run came in the sixth on a Jake McCarter solo shot to left.

Riverhawks starter Jordan Bonhoff moved to 2-0 after allowing four runs on five hits while striking out two in four innings. Ross came in from center field to throw three relief innings, striking out three while allowing one run on two hits.

Game Two

AACC rallied from a seven-run deficit with five runs on five hits in the bottom of the sixth, but Harford used two hits and a trio of AACC errors in the top of the seventh to plate four runs and retake a sizable lead. Harford cranked out 10 hits and took advantage of eight Riverhawks miscues in the game. Bosley hit a pair of two-run home runs amidst a 2-for-3 performance at the plate.

Trailing, 9-2, headed into the bottom of the sixth, AACC rallied for five runs on five hits, including an RBI double from Holland and a two-run homer over the center field fence from Bosley. With runners on the corners and two outs, Evan Pohlman drove in a run and the Riverhawks scored another on the same play thanks to a throwing error.

AACC starter White struck out three in two innings, allowing two runs on three hits. Jackson Burchick, Kyle Smoak, and Rodolfo Llobet tossed an inning each. Holland moved from first base to the mound in the sixth where he struck out three in the inning. Logan Newland came on in the seventh to close out the game. 

AACC is back in action at home this weekend when they face Orange County Community College for doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday. First pitch is scheduled for 11 a.m. both days.