CHESTER, Pa. - Eastern Baseball scored 18 runs at Widener on Wednesday afternoon, but it was not enough to emerge with a win.The two teams combined for 36 runs and 29 hits before game was called after the ninth inning due to darkness. It is the third tie of the the season for the Eagles. 

Eastern (10-11-3) scored three times in the first inning. The Eagles started the game with three consecutive singles. Angelo Kelly scored on a Joe Grato single. Grato and Timmy Gorton would score two batters later when Andrew Check grounded into a fielder's choice and an error.

The lead was short lived, however, as the Pride took advantage of early wildness from the Eastern staff to score nine runs in the bottom half of the second. Widner had five hits in the inning. Six players drew walks, and another was hit by a pitch.

The Eagles rallied and scored multiple runs in the next five innings. After scoring two runs in the fourth inning, Eastern tacked on two more in the fifth inning scoring on back-to-back RBI's by Grato and Joseph De Los Santos to trim the deficit to just three, 10-7.

In the fifth inning, the Eagles would come all the way back to tie the game at 15-15. Eastern trailed 15-10 entering the top half of the fifth and needed a surge offensively. Three straight Eagles reached base safely, and Jordan Laboy plated Shane Albertson to cut the deficit to four, 15-11. Kelly then singled to center the very next at-bat to score Kyle Daddario and trim Widener's lead to just three. After Gorton had singled to plate Laboy, two straight wild pitches scored to tie the game. 

Widener stretched the lead to 18-15 after scoring three runs in the bottom half of the fifth. Once again the Eagles would battle back to tie the game again. In the top of the sixth inning after the first two batters reached base safely, Andrew Boykin scored on the Pride's ninth error of the game. Kelly then singled later in the inning driving in both Albertson and Check to tie the game at 18-18.

Joe Clancy was a bright spot on the mound for the Eastern pitching staff. The junior right-hander held the Pride scoreless over his two and a third innings worked. He allowed only one hit in the seventh and walked a batter before giving way to Check for the final two outs in the ninth. 

Kellyrecorded his first career five-hit day. The junior right fielder was 5-for-5 with a walk. He scored four runs and had three RBI's.  

Eastern returns to MAC Freedom competition this weekend. The Eagles open their series against King's College with a single home game on Friday at 3:30 pm.