Lynn University Baseball vs Barry Univ, April 2, 2006 Noon event Hosted at Lynn Boca Raton Campus

BOCA RATON, Fla. – Two monster innings catapulted the Lynn University baseball team to a 13-7 victory against Barry University Sunday afternoon. The two teams combined for 27 hits and nine errors. Brandon Mann extended his hitting streak to 18 games and Andrew Majoros had a career day on the mound en route to his fifth win of the season as the 23rd-ranked Fighting Knights improved to 24-11 overall and 7-5 in the Sunshine State Conference. Costly errors allowed Barry (24-12-1, 6-6) to score five unearned runs through five innings. A throwing error by Mann with one out allowed Jerry Thornton to not only reach base but advance to second. Orestes Gonzales singled home Thorton two batters later and scored one a two double by Nick Corbeil. The Knights appeared to be out of the inning with a soft grounder to short but Ricky Gerena bobbled the ball, allowing a third run to score. Lynn answered with five runs in the bottom half of the third inning. Tommy Tickenoff doubled to start things off and advanced to third on Jason TenEyck’s single to left field. Nicolas Boisvert’s fake bunt, loop single brought home Tickenoff and back-to-back homeruns by Bacon and Felix Martinez gave Lynn a 5-3 lead. The home run was the second in two days for Bacon and the first since March 13 for Martinez. The Buccaneers tied the game 5-5 in the fifth when Cesar Aranguren reached on a fielding error by Bacon, which would have gave LU two outs. Corbeil made the Knights pay with a double off the left field wall and scored two batters later on a fielders choice to first base. Lady luck visited the Knights in the bottom of the fifth. Martinez reached on a three base error to start the inning after his fly ball was dropped by right fielder Bobby Hartney. George Brandner’s sacrifice fly put the Blue and White up 6-5, a lead they would not relinquish. Tickenoff started another big inning in the sixth with a single through the right side of the infield. A failed pickoff attempt got Tickenoff to second and a single to right field, bobbled by Hartney scored the senior catcher. A new pitcher for the Bucs didn’t help much either, as Jon Adams faced three batters without recording an out before being pulled. Boisvert singled to left field, scoring TenEyck. Mann extended his streak to 18 games with an infield single deep in the hole at short and Adams followed by hitting Bacon in the knee. New pitcher Michael Divila’s first pitch to Martinez was smoked down the left field line for a double, scoring two more Knights. Gerena put Lynn up by six with a fielders choice and Tickenoff capped the six run inning with a single to center field, scoring George Brandner. Mann is tied for the fourth longest streak in LU history and becomes the seventh Fighting Knight to record a hitting streak of at least 18 games. Shades of Saturday began to creep into the minds of fans when Barry loaded the bases in the seventh inning. Chris Snow entered with two out and proceeded to get Thornton to ground out and end the threat. Snow though allowed two runs in the eighth on a two-run homerun by Corbeil. LU got one run back in the bottom of the inning on a throwing error by the catcher, putting Brandner on third base. The senior first baseman scored a batter later on Gerena’s single to left field. Majoros threw 6.2 innings and struck out eight batters, both career highs, while allowing no earned runs. Every Buccaneer pitcher allowed at least one run.