JENKINTOWN, Pa. – The Arcadia University baseball team scored eight times in the top of the ninth to tie the game before going on to pull out an improbable 15-13 come-from-behind, 12-inning victory at Penn State Abington Tuesday.
 
The Knights (18-13-1) went up 3-2 in the top of the second on freshman Pat Shevlin's bases-clearing single, and that lead lasted until the bottom of the fifth when Fran Caruso drove in a pair of runs with his two-RBI single to put the Nittany Lions (16-16) up 4-3. Abington then exploded for eight runs in the seventh to open what probably seemed at the time to be an insurmountable 12-3 lead.
 
Arcadia once again proved there's no deficit it can't overcome, scoring one run in the top of the eighth on sophomore Justin Chasmar's sac fly that scored junior Steven Zellers before the Knights sent eight runs across the plate in the top of the ninth to tie the game. The scoring in the ninth started when freshman Ed Essig and senior Andonis Yiantsos scored on Zellers' double, and Yiantsos tied it up with a two-our grand slam that knotted the score at 12-12.
 
The two teams traded runs in the 10th before the Knights scored twice in the top of the 12th to regain the lead for good. Shevlin gave Arcadia the lead when he drove in sophomore Michael Ferrence with an RBI-single before senior Dan Shiramizu was forced home after sophomore Jordan Draude drew a bases-loaded walk for the 15-13 final.
 
Senior Justin Simpson then closed the door in the bottom half of the inning to close out the win for the Knights. He improved to 3-0 with the win after allowing one run over his three innings of relief work.
 
Yiantsos was 2 for 6 with a homer, four RBI and two runs scored, while Shevlin was 3 for 7 with four RBI and one run scored. Chasmar went 4 for 7 on the day with two doubles, one triple, two runs scored and two runs driven in.
 
This marked the final game of the regular season for Arcadia, which will now await next week's ECAC regional championship selection to see if its season will continue.