It took everything the Stetson Hatters had on Saturday night, but that was just enough to take a 5-4 victory over Georgetown in the fourth game of the Westin Lake Mary Stetson Invitational.
 
Saint Louis defeated Sacred Heart 9-7 in 10 innings in Saturday's opening game.
 
Stetson (3-6) fell behind 2-0 early against the Hoyas (2-7) as starting pitcher Robbie Peto allowed single runs in the third and fifth innings. It was a two-out single by Kai Nelson in the third that scored the first Georgetown run after a pair of walks.
 
In the fifth the Hoyas picked up three consecutive two out singles before Peto walked Michael Willis on a 3-2 pitch to give Georgetown a 2-0 lead.
 
Hatters freshman Danny Garcia (1-0) came on to get Stetson out of trouble in that inning and then worked two more scoreless frames to earn his first win.
 
Stetson finally got to Georgetown starter Brent Killam (0-3) in the fifth, scoring four runs on three hits with the help of an error on Killam and a wild pitch. Freshman Mark Townsend singled to drive in Nick Cardieri with the first run and Austin Bogart followed with a two-run single to put the Hatters in the lead.
 
Jonathan Meola delivered a sacrifice fly to score Townsend and make it 4-2.
 
From there, the teams swapped runs in the late innings. Georgetown scored in the eighth when Ryan Weisenberg drew a walk off Bogart to start the inning. Yareb Martinez followed with a single to move pinch runner James Gabor to third. Tony Barreca delivered a sacrifice fly to make it 4-3.
 
Stetson answered that run in the bottom of the inning when Eric Foggo led off with a hit, moved up on a sacrifice bunt and a passed ball and then scored on a sacrifice fly by Baylen Sparks.
 
Bogart went back to the mound in the ninth, and recorded a strikeout to start the inning, before senior Vlad Nunez came in from the pen. Nunez allowed consecutive hits, with a wild pitch in between, allowing the Hoyas to score a run on a ground out. Another hit moved the tying run to third before Nunez got out of the inning, earning his first save of the year.
 
Stetson managed just seven hits in the game, with Townsend accounting for two. Nelson led the Hoyas' 13-hit attack with four singles while Eddie McCabe added three hits.
 
The schedule for the final day of the tournament will see Georgetown take on Saint Louis at 11 a.m. before the Hatters host Sacred Heart in a game scheduled for 3 p.m. Stetson and Sacred Heart will take a day off on Monday before playing two more games this week, on Tuesday and Wednesday night.
 
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