HOUGHTON, NY— The Hilbert Hawks scored two runs in the top of the ninth, tying the game, and eventually put up six in the eleventh inning to defeat the Houghton Highlanders, 9-3.
 
Houghton scored single runs in the first two innings, and Hilbert scratched a run across in the sixth to make it a 2-1 game.
 
The Highlanders tacked on an insurance run in the eighth before surrendering a pair in the ninth.
 
In the eleventh, the Hawks took advantage of a single to right, a bloop single to left, an infield single off the end of the bat, another base hit to center, a walk, and a bases-clearing, two-out, four-run infield error.
 
GAME VITALS                            
Score: Hilbert – 9 | Houghton – 3 (11 IN)  
Records: Hilbert: 8-7 | Houghton: 6-3  
Venue: Kerr-Pegula Athletic Complex Baseball Field, Houghton University | Attendance: 73
  
KEY STATS: 
>> Christopher Gross did not surrender an earned run over six innings of work, allowing three hits and six walks while striking out five.  So far this season he has struck out 24 batters in 16.1 innings.
 
>> Christian Tortorici went 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles, a walk and an RBI.
 
>> Vincent Lucyszyn (double, triple) and Matt Riddell (double) added two hits apiece for the Highlanders.
 
UP NEXT: 
The Highlanders travel to Alfred University on Saturday, March 21 for a conference-opening doubleheader with the Saxons starting at 12:00 p.m.