ABERDEN, Md. - The Harford baseball team will enter the postseason on a high note after a 7-4 victory in the regular season finale against Potomac State. The victory snapped a four-game losing streak for the Fighting Owls and salvaged a doubleheader split at Ripken Stadium.

Potomac State 5, Harford 2
Kyle Hurley (7-2) suffered just his second loss of the season, allowing five runs, four earned while striking out three in seven innings of work. The Harford offense could not come up with a big hit after falling behind early.

Norm Donkin was one of three Fighting Owls with a pair of hits. Jon McAllister had two doubles and Justin Gartner added a pair of singles.

Harford 7, Potomac State 4
Nick Stallings (4-3) struck out 12 batters, tying a career-high, to snap the Harford skid. He was dazzling on all but one pitch, a three-run home run that he served up to the Catamount leadoff hitter in the fifth inning.

Trailing 4-3 after the long ball, the Harford offense responded with a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth and two more in the sixth to secure the win.

Jerry Jerminski executed a perfect suicide squeeze bunt to plate the tying run and reached base safely when no one covered first base. In the next at bat, Nick Freeberger smacked a single into rightfield for the game-winning hit.

Matt Petrizzi, McAllister and Donkin pieced together three-straight two-out hits in the sixth to gave Harford cushion. The big blow was Donkin's RBI-triple.

Stallings, though, was the rock star of the night. He struck out the side in the fourth and punched out a pair in the first, third and sixth innings. Donkin came in to pitch the final two outs for his league-leading ninth save.