Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 WALDORF, Md. – The Harford baseball team (32-7, 18-1 MD JUCO) showed tons of resilience as they were forced to come from behind in both games of their doubleheader sweep of the College of Southern Maryland. The Fighting Owls outlasted the Hawks in game one, winning 7-5 in 10 innings, before turning a seven-run deficit into a 23-11 rout in game two, pushing their latest win streak to 13 straight. Dominic DiSabatino was a force at the plate, getting on base successfully on eight of his ten plate appearances of the two game set.
 
Harford 7, Southern Maryland 5
The vaunted Fighting Owls' offense were grounded for much of the early going in the opener but came up big hit when they needed them. Down 4-1 in the sixth, DiSabatino led the inning off with a double. Max Joseph followed with a single and Harford was in business with runners on the corners with no outs. Colby Dean lined a single to right field to score DiSabatino making it 4-2. Joseph and Dean executed a double steal to create a second and third situation with no outs. After a strikeout by Andrew Valichka, Ty Williams was able to plate a run with an RBI groundout, pulling Harford to within a run. With two down, Chase DeMars came up with a big RBI single through the left side to tie the game up at 4-4.
 
Southern Maryland jumped back ahead in the bottom of the sixth. Head coach Tom Eller called on Mike Adams to lock down the Southern Maryland hitters. He fought his command in his first inning of work, allowing a leadoff walk to Christian Rice. Rice stole second base and with two outs, came around to score on a pair of wild pitches. The second wild pitch, which allowed Rice to score from third, appeared to hit the bat of Marshall Cook who checked his swing. It was ruled that the only the ball touched was Joseph's glove, not Marshall's bat, on the way to the back stop.
 
Down to their last three outs and down a run, Joe Burton was hit by a pitch with one out in the seventh. After a balk call moved Burton to second base, Ben Bomberger was called on to pinch run for him. It was a move that would be proved to be unnecessary as DiSabatino clubbed a double high off the 26 foot wall in left field of Regency Furniture Stadium. Bomberger scored from second easily to tie the ballgame up.
 
It would take until the 10^th inning to break that tie and DiSabatino was in the mix again. He drew a leadoff walk and advanced all the way to second on an error on a snap throw attempt by catcher Frank Hall. Luke Johnson was hit by a pitch and stole second, putting runners on second and third with no outs. Toby Sponseller singled up the middle, scoring DiSabatino and Johnson to give Harford a 7-5 lead.
 
With the lead in hand, Adams was more than up to the task of slamming the door shut on the Hawks offense. He retired the side in order to secure the comeback win for the Fighting Owls. He pitched five innings, giving up a run on just one hit and one walk while striking out eight. The win moved his record to 7-0 on the season.
 
Harford 23, Southern Maryland 11
The Fighting Owls scored 11 runs in the third inning and 10 more in the fourth to flip a 7-0 deficit into a 21-7 lead. In the 11 run third inning, Harford sent 15 men to the plate, racked up eight hits and drew four walks. Sponseller's two-run double cut the Hawks lead to 7-4. Harford would tie the game up on Chase DeMars single in his second at bat of the inning. He beat out a ground ball to short and on the throw to first, Nick Delp came around to score the tying run. Harford would plate four more in the frame on two RBI singles by Daulton Weeks and JP Vail.
 
In the fourth inning, 11 of the first 12 batters reached base for Harford, with the lone exception being a sacrifice fly Burton. The Fighting Owls had four hits in the 10 run inning, all of which were singles.
 
Sponseller was 4-for-4 and scored three runs and drove in four. Weeks, Vail, Bomberger and Delp each had three RBI games. Bomberger went 2-for-4 with three runs scored. Delp went 2-for-3 with two runs scored. Vail was 1-for-1 with three walks and two runs scored.
 
Ronnie Krsolovic was credited with the first win of his career on the mound. He two innings scoreless innings and gave up just one hit and one walk. Nick Flayhart got two big outs in the second inning. He came on with the bases loaded and allowed two inherited runners to score but kept Harford within striking distance.
 
Harford will host Cecil on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.