RICHMOND, VA – Monmouth University Baseball (6-11-1) battled back from a five-run deficit to take the lead, ultimately tying the University of Richmond (11-5-1) 6-6 after darkness halted the game after 13 innings. Three Monmouth freshmen relievers combined to fire seven shutout relief innings on the day, and Max Goione's (Fair Haven, NJ/Rumson-Fair Haven/Siena) three-run triple led MU offensively. It marked Monmouth's first tie since the 2013 season.

Richmond jumped to a 5-0 lead, scoring two in the first without a run-scoring hit. The Spiders added a run in the third on Mark Ready's RBI single, and made it 5-0 with two more coming across in the fourth, one scoring on Kyle Schmidt's RBI double.

MU mounted a comeback beginning in the fifth, getting a Danny Long (Sellersville, NJ/Pennridge) RBI single before Kyle Norman (Ellicott City, MD/Good Counsel/Buffalo) drove one in as well, cutting it to 5-2. In the sixth, three straight hits culminated in an MU run as JD Andreessen (Depew, NY/Lancaster/Campbell) drove one in with a base hit up the middle before Goione laced one off the third base bag, clearing the bases for a three-run triple to put the Hawks up 6-5.

After Brian Schaub's solo home run tied the game for Richmond in the sixth, neither team would score again. Monmouth's best opportunity came in the 10^th, when Robbie Holmes (Bernardsville, NJ/Bernards) singled with two aboard and two away but Zach Schild (Lincroft, NJ/Middletown South) was cut down at the plate on a close play. Nick Houghton (Hamilton, NJ/Nottingham) used double plays to end both the 10^th and 11^th innings, and neither team threatened in the 12^th or 13^th before the contest was called due to darkness.

NOTES AND QUOTES
"Our young guys pitched well today in pressure situations.  The defense made some nice plays late in the game and extras." – Head Coach Dean Ehehalt  

-Monmouth recorded a tie for the first time since the 2013 regular season finale against LIU, the Hawks' final regular season game as a member of the NEC.
-It marked the eighth total tie in the 61^st season of Monmouth Baseball and the fourth of the Dean Ehehalt era.
-For the third time in four games, every MU starter recorded a hit.
-Nine different Hawks collected the nine MU hits, with nobody posting a multi-hit day.
-Goione drove in his first runs of the season, and it is his second career game with multi RBI's (5/8/18 at Hofstra).
-Kyle Norman and JD Andreessen extended their hitting streaks to nine games apiece.
-Andreessen has driven in a run in four games in a row.
-Stephen Aldrich struck out a season-best three batters in his longest outing of the year.
-Nick Houghton posted his longest outing of the year of three innings, and recorded his first career scoreless outing.
-Houghton has now struck out three in four of his seven appearances.
-Mason Miller posted his fourth shutout appearance in six outings this year.
-Ryan Lillie made his first start of the season.

NUMBERS CRUNCH
-MU was outhit 13-9.
-Hawk pitching forced Richmond to leave 17 runners on base, compared to seven for the Blue and White.
-Neither team scored for the final seven innings.
-Richmond was 3-26 with runners on base, and 2-16 with runners in scoring position.
-There were 436 pitches thrown in the game, which lasted four hours and seven minutes.

UP NEXT
-Monmouth will take on Seton Hall on Friday afternoon in the 2019 home opener at 3:00 p.m. on ESPN3 and the Watch ESPN app.