The Belmont Abbey baseball team earned a 10-9 road win at Anderson this afternoon in a non-conference matchup. Belmont Abbey scored four times in the top of the eighth after trailing 7-6, and held on for the win after the Trojans scored twice in the bottom of the eighth. Belmont Abbey moves to 12-4-1, while Anderson drops to 5-16.

Belmont Abbey struck for two in the first on a two RBI single by Kennan Stanley, and after Anderson scored once in the bottom of the inning, the Crusaders added two more in the second as Emilio Pagan singled home John Pilla and Ian Vazquez.

The Trojans countered with one in the bottom of the second and two more in the third to knot the game at four, but the Abbey quickly moved back ahead in the fourth with two runs. Vazquez reached on a two out bunt single and stole second. After a walk to Pagan, Vazquez and Pagan executed a double steal that moved both men up one base, and Anthony Dimino brought both of them home with a triple to right that pushed the Abbey ahead 6-4.

Those would be the last Abbey runs until the bottom of the eighth as the Trojans scored three unanswered runs, starting with two in the bottom of the fifth on a single by Eric Sanderson, and another one inning later on a run scoring single by Josh Hickman, which moved Anderson ahead 7-6.

Neither team scored in the seventh, and the Crusaders stormed ahead for good in the eighth as they scored four times, getting two RBI singles from both Pagan and Michael Falsetti, which moved the Crusaders ahead 10-7.

Anderson trimmed the Abbey lead to one in the bottom of the frame, as Sanderson's groundout to second produced the first run, and the other scored on a wild pitch.

That turned out to be the final runs of the game, as both teams were retired in order in the ninth inning.

Pagan, who finished two for three with three RBI, also earned the win as he worked the final three and two thirds innings allowing two runs, one earned, on four hits. He struck out four. He was the last of five Abbey pitchers. Kyle Francis, the third of five Trojans hurlers, was charged with the loss after yielding three runs on two hits in a third of an inning.

The Crusaders totaled 13 hits as Vazquez led the way with three in five at bats. He also scored four times. Pagan and Dimino both had two hits.