BEL AIR, Md. - The Harford baseball team (27-11) dropped a 3-2 game in extra innings to Brookdale (19-9) on Friday evening. The Fighting Owls allowed the go-ahead run to score on a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch in the 11th.

Freshman hurler Carlos-Henri Ferre was one-out away from a complete game shutout, but after retiring the first two batters of the ninth inning, he ran into some trouble. Brookdale pieced together a bloop double down the right field line, a solid RBI-single to left and an infield single to short to chase Ferre. The first batter Rob Koski faced in relief connected on an RBI single to left to plate the tying run.

Ferre had been lights out before he was unable to close the door. He allowed a leadoff single to center and a bloop double in the second inning before hoding the Jersey Blues hitless until the ninth. He was charged with two runs on five hits while striking out three. He didn't walk a batter until the seventh inning and faced the minimum three times.

Brookdale's Dave Egeland was just as dominant late, keeping the Fighting Owls off balance with a solid mix of pitches. He went the distance, throwing 141 pitches in 11 innings to earn the win. He didn't allow a Harford hit after a Jerry Jerminski single to center in the fifth inning.

The Fighting Owls were held to five hits on the night, but manufactured a run in the second and one in the third for an early 2-0 lead. Justin Gartner smashed an RBI-single in the second inning, plating Cody Brittain and Jerminski laid down a perect safety squeeze bunt to plate Donkin in the third. Donkin had reached on a pop-fly double that found grass in no-man's land in right field. He alertly hustled into second when no one was covering the bag. A split second later, he realized that no one was covering third, either, so he scampered 90 feet away.

Zack Stout allowed two walks and an infield single in the 11th after retiring two batters. He was stuck with the loss when Jack Hine hit his first batter.

Harford managed two base runners in the 11th, one was erased on a caught stealing, and the other was stranded when Chris Baird made a difficult catch in foul territory up against the fence to end the game.

Harford hosts Chesapeake for a pair in itsRegion XX Division I opener on Saturday at noon.