NORTHFIELD, Vt. - April 14, 2017 - The Colby-Sawyer baseball team trailed 6-3 after five innings, but came back with three runs in the seventh and ninth innings to defeat Norwich 9-6 on Friday afternoon. 

The Chargers have won four straight to improve to 12-8. Colby-Sawyer will resume conference action on Monday with a home doubleheader against Castleton. Norwich dips to 6-16 and will host Rivier for two games tomorrow. 

Colby-Sawyer scored a run in its first at-bat on a sac fly from senior Justin Devoid. The Chargers added a second run in the top of the third when sophomore Liam Datres de la Blotier knocked in Devoid with a single to center field. 

The Cadets got the bats going in the bottom half of the third and scored five times. Matt Sirois had a run-scoring single to begin the rally for Norwich. He then came around on a two-run homer from Andrew Fisher. Norwich added two more runs on RBI singles from Billy Whaley and Brandon Pedley.

Each team would score a run in the fifth inning to keep the spread at three runs. Senior Jackson Musco had an RBI double that scored Devoid for the Chargers, while LaShawn Thomas had a sac fly in the bottom half for Norwich.

Colby-Sawyer scored three times in the top of the seventh to knot the score at 6-6. The Chargers benefited from multiple Norwich miscues in the inning with junior Brendan Thurber scoring on a passed ball, junior Drew Inglesi crossing home plate on a balk and junior Brady Dion coming around to score on an error after a Doug Avellino single.

The Chargers completed the rally with three runs in the top of the ninth to go ahead 9-6. After Datres de la Blotier reached on a walk and Musco singled, freshman Tim Unczur knocked them both in on a double to right field. Unczur then scored on a wild pitch. 

Junior Andrew Carbone pitched a perfect bottom of the ninth to earn his second save in as many days. 

Colby-Sawyer junior Connor Henry earned the win after 5.1 innings of relief. Andrew Fisher suffered the loss for the Cadets. 

Junior Joey Fenuccio recorded a team best three hits for the Chargers. Musco, Datres de la Blotier and Avellino finished with two hits apiece.  

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