Box Score PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – The Arcadia University baseball team dropped another close Friday, falling to visiting Stevenson University 5-3 at Erny Field to open a three-game Commonwealth Conference series. The two teams will meet again for a doubleheader Saturday at Stevenson.
 
The game was tied at 3-3 heading into the top of the eighth, where the Mustangs (9-14 / 4-9 CC) scored the final two runs of the game. Sophomore Nick Peifer (Monrovia, Md.) scored the game-winning run on senior Tom Goulian's (Kinnelon, N.J.) sac-fly to left, and Frederick Casper (New Market, Md.) scored on an error two batters later.
 
Senior Scott Merkel (Hampstead, Md.) drove in the first run of the game with a single to right in the top of the first for Stevenson, and junior Andonis Yiantsos (Voorhees, N.J.) answered with an RBI double down the left field line in the bottom of the frame for the Knights (3-19-1 / 2-11 CC) to tie the game at 1-1.  
 
Casper put the Mustangs back on top when he scored on an error in the top of the second and senior Ben Hallam (Glen Burnie, Md.) launched a solo homer to center to lead off the fifth to put Stevenson ahead 3-1.
 
Arcadia answered with two runs in the bottom of the fifth to tie the game at 3-3. Junior Tom Wagner (Somerdale, N.J.) drove in freshman Jordan Draude (Lancaster, Pa.) with a double to left and then scored on Yiantsos' single to right two batters later.
 
Sophomore Alec Romanowski (Endwell, N.Y.) improved to 4-3 on the hill for the Mustangs after giving up three unearned runs on six hits while fanning nine batters in 7.2 innings. Senior Greg Myers (Baltimore, Md.) recorded the final four outs to earn his first save of the year.
 
Junior Kyle Farnholtz (Northampton, Pa.) fell to 1-3 after allowing three runs (two earned) on three hits with three strikeouts in 4.2 innings of relief. Sophomore Joseph Warren (Yardley, Pa.) didn't factor in the decision after giving up two unearned runs on three hits with four strikeouts in two innings.
 
Wagner finished 2-for-2 with a double, two runs scored and one RBI, while Yiantsos finished the day 2-for-5 with a double and two RBI.