HAVERFORD, Pa.– In a non-league game at Haverford College, Eastern University Baseball erased a five-run first-inning deficit and led 10-7 midway through the third inning, but the host Fords hit three three-run homers in the final five innings to pull away to a 17-11 win. Brian Lang homered twice and drove in four to pace the Eastern offense.

The Fords (9-3) took advantage of an extra out and five hits in the first to jump to a 5-0 lead. The Eagles loaded the bases with one out in the second and grabbed two runs back when Lang scored on a Lane Heuer walk and Joe Paradise came hoe on a Trent MacDougall sacrifice fly.

Haverford added another unearned run in the second and were threatening to add on more before Heuer ended the rally with a good throw to gun down a would-be base-stealer to end the inning for the second time in the game.

Lang hit his first two-run home run of the day in the third inning to pull within two at 6-4, but the Fords manufactured a run without a ball leaving the infield in the bottom of the inning. 

The Eagles took advantage of walks and errors to plate six runs on just two hits in the fourth. Heuer hit a one-out single to start the rally and Lang drove int he final two runs with another shot. Lang now has five homers this season. His two shots today were his first two with a runner on base.

The Fords had an answer in the bottom of the inning when harry Genth, their senior shortstop, hit his first of two three-run homers in the game. The game was tied at ten after four, but Genth's second shot put the hosts up 13-10 after five and an Anthony Runfola homer put the Fords up 16-10 after seven.

The Eagles (5-10) grabbed a final run on a Brock Langlotz home run in the ninth. Eastern will play at Washington College tomorrow before hosting MAC Commonwealth rival York College at Villanova Stadium in Plymouth Meeting on Friday.