THE BASICS:
 
RESULTS:  Stony Brook 4, Hartford 3 (10 innings)
LOCATION:  LeLacheur Park (Lowell, Mass.)
RECORDS:  Hartford (20-29, 8-13 America East), Stony Brook (26-24-11, 12-10 AE)
W:  Aaron Pinto (5-5) L: Drew Farkas (0-1)
 
 
THE LEAD: 
The University of Hartford baseball (20-29, 8-13) team suffered a heartbreaking 4-3 extra-inning loss in the Hawks' first game of the America East Championship Tournament against Stony Brook on Tuesday.
 
With the score tied at 3-3 the Seawolves mounted a two-out rally in the bottom of the 10^th when Dylan Resk, Andruw Gazzola and Bobby Honeyman connected for three consecutive singles. Honeyman's hit off Hartford reliever Drew Farkas dropped into shallow center field, allowing Resk to score from third.
 
Hartford took an early 2-0 lead and kept control until the seventh, when Stony Brook's Michael Wilson put the Seawolves in front with a two-run home run to left. It was Wilson's fifth home run of the season.
 
The Hawks added some heroics of their own in the ninth inning when left fielder Chris Sullivan walked, advanced on a single by pinch hitter Jackson Olson and tied the game on a perfectly-executed squeeze play by Trevor Thompson.
 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:

• Zachary Ardito gave the Hawks a 1-0 lead in the second inning with an RBI single through the left side, scoring Ben Bengtson.
• Hartford made it 2-0 in the sixth when first baseman David MacKinnon connected for a leadoff double to left and came home on an RBI single by shortstop Ben Bengtson.
• Stony Brook got on the board in the sixth when Casey Baker doubled to right, scoring Toby Handley.
• Wilson drove a two-run homer over the fence in left to give the Seawolves their first lead, 3-2, in the bottom of the seventh.
• Thompson dropped a perfect bunt between the plate and the mound, allowing Sullivan to score on a squeeze play from third and tie the game at 3-3 in the ninth.
• With two outs, the Seawolves strung together three straight hits, with Honeyman providing the walk-off winner.

 
 
BY THE NUMBERS:

• Hartford starting pitcher Nathan Florence tossed 5.1 solid innings for the Hawks. It was Florence's longest start of the season and he finished the game with one run on three hits, with five strikeouts.
• Florence's previous best start was 5.0 innings, also versus Stony Brook, on April 22.
• Stony Brook is now 5-11 in one-run games this season. Hartford is 10-9.
• MacKinnon's double was his 12^th of the season and the 51^st of his career.