BEVERLY, Mass. – Suffolk baseball had the chance to upset No. 7/14 Endicott as it took the nationally-ranked Commonwealth Coast Conference counterpart to 10 innings, but it would be the Gulls that prevailed with a 4-3, 10-inning league decision Tuesday at North Field. 

THE BASICS
SCORE: Suffolk 3 | No. 7/14 Endicott 4
RECORDS: Suffolk (6-9, 2-3 CCC) | No. 7/14 Endicott (16-3, 4-0 CCC) 

HOW IT HAPPENED
Tied 3-3 in the bottom of the 10th inning, the Gulls scratched home the game-winning run on a Rams throwing error at home with the bases loaded.  

Suffolk built a 3-0 lead in the top of the fourth. Marc Birbiglia wore a pitch with the bases loaded before Luke Hardersingled through the left side to score Garret Roberts, who reached on a single of his own through the opposite side of the field. Sam Armbruster worked a walk with all the ducks in the pond to bring in the third Ram. A pitching change by Endicott ended the Rams scoring rally. 

Endicott made up the ground in the home half of the inning behind a bases loaded walk from Joey Frammartino and a two-run single to center by TJ Liponis, which eventually forced extra-innings.  

In the top of the 10th Suffolk had a chance to go ahead as Armbruster and Max Iorio both walked. Roberts went down looking and Harry Painter sat down swinging to keep things even at 3-all, which set-up the Gulls walk-off in the bottom of the inning.

PITCHERS PICTURE

• Jonny Gilbride took the loss after giving up the winning run on one hit with one strikeout in less than an inning of relief work. 
• Suffolk starter Caleb Piwnicki put together a three-run, six-hit, four-walk, one-strikeout effort over 6.0 innings. 
• Harder shoved 3.0 innings of scoreless relief work with three hits allowed and one punchout. 
• Max Tarlin earned the win for Endicott with 1.0 inning of scoreless, hitless work with a pair of crucial Ks out of the pen. 
• John Connolly started for the Gulls and let up three runs on three hits and three walks with three stirkeouts over 3.2 innings. 
• Nicholas Canata worked 5.1 innings of scoreless work. He gave up one hit and one walk and struckout seven. 

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

• Harder went 2-for-4 with one rBI. 
• Bribigilia brought in one run. 
• Iorio and Roberts each had one hit and scored once.  

NOTEWORTHY

• Suffolk went into extra innings for the first time this season and first since April 21, 2022 when it defeated UMass Dartmouth, 12-10, in 10 innings. 
• Suffolk and Endicott went into extra innings for the first time. 
• Harder pitched a career-high number of innings (3) and faced the most batters (12) of his career. 

WHAT'S NEXT?
Suffolk welcomes Western New England to East Boston Memorial Park Saturday, April 8 for a CCC twinbill with a 12 p.m. game one first pitch.