Aiden Gomes (Bronx, N.Y./LaSalle Academy) recorded four hits and drove in four runs as the Lincoln University baseball team recorded a walk-off extra-inning win over Nyack College 13-12 in the opening game of a Friday afternoon doubleheader held at Maplezone Sports Institute in Aston, Pennsylvania.

The Lions went on to split the two game set with the Warriors, losing the second game 10-0.  Lincoln is now 3-2 on the season.  Nyack's record is 1-1.

Gomes, a sophomore second baseman, banged out three singles and a triple in five plate appearances, becoming just the fourth Lions baseball player in their active NCAA Division II era to record a four-hit game.  He joins Edwin Rivera (Bronx, NY/Gompers HS) (2013, 2016); Demetrius Morris (2012); and Marquise Hudson (2010, 2011) as members of the Lions four-hit game club.  He also drove in four runs, two coming on his one-out triple in the seventh inning and two more on a one-out single in the eighth inning.

Terence Berry (Dover, N.J./Dover HS) started the opening game and pitched seven innings, striking out nine batters and allowing six runs on four hits.  Yasser Ortiz (Carolina, P.R./Juan Jose' Osuna) came on in relief in the extra frames, pitching the final two innings and earned the win, allowing six runs (four earned) on six hits.  Ortiz is 1-0 on the season.

Noah German (0-1) took the loss for Nyack, pitching to Lincoln's final two batters in the ninth inning.

Trailing 12-10 entering their final at-bat in the ninth inning, the Lions wasted no time, putting their first two runners Ronald Lashley (Brooklyn, N.Y./Benjamin Banneker Academy) (hit by pitch) and Michael Howard (Bronx, N.Y./Utica College) (walk) on base.  German then came on to pitch to Devante Parker.  Parker took a 3-2 fastball and blasted it into the right center field gap for a triple, scoring Lashley and Howard, tying the game at 12-12.  Joshua Roberson (Germantown, Md./Seneca Valley HS) then took the second pitch thrown by German and laced a single over the second baseman's head to score Parker with the winning run.

The Lions rally was their third in three innings as the team came back from a 6-3 deficit in the bottom of the seventh inning and a 10-6 deficit in the bottom of the eighth

Nyack tagged Berry for four runs in the first inning courtesy of a Ruben Correa grand slam home run and tacked on two more in the fifth before the Lions got on the scoreboard in the bottom half of the fifth inning.

Lincoln's first two runs came courtesy of Roberson's one-out two-run home run, his second of the season. After the Roberson home run, Gabriel Santiago (Bronx, N.Y./Mount Saint Michael Academy) was hit by a pitch and moved to second on Gomes' single.  Marquis Coleman (Middle River , Md./Baltimore Polytech HS) followed with a single to score Santiago and make the score 6-3.

Gomes' one-out triple in the seventh scored Dominic Rheubottom (Baltimore, Md./Baltimore Polytech HS) and Santiago to pull the Lions within one 6-5.  He later scored the tying run on an infield error.

???????Nyack tacked on fourth more runs in the eighth inning off Ortiz but the Lions again rallied with four of their own in the bottom of the eighth.  Rheubottom drew a base-loaded walk to bring home the first Lion run.  Roberson then scored on an infield error and Gomes brought home the tying runs with a one out single.

In the nightcap, Nyack's Kyle Tedesco was practically unhittable allowing just one hit as the Lions dropped a 10-0 decision to the Warriors.

Rolando Alvarez (Brooklyn, N.Y./Nazareth Regional HS) took the loss for the Lions, allowing nine runs (seven earned) on eight hits while striking out four.

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The Warriors scored solo runs in the first, fourth and fifth innings before tacking on seven more runs in their final at-bat in the seventh inning.

Lincoln will return to action on Saturday, February 25, 2017 when they host Bloomfield College at Maplezone Sports for a non-conference doubleheader.