Winter Haven, Fla. (March 5, 2011)--The Mount St. Mary's baseball team opened its Florida trip by rallying for a 3-2 victory over Miami (Ohio) in 10 innings on Saturday. The Mount improves to 1-1 on the year with the victory.

Trailing 2-0 heading into the bottom of the ninth, the Mount scored a pair of runs to force extra innings. Andrew Caron started the rally with a double down the right field line. After Kyle Kane grounded out to short, moving Caron to third, Shane Eyler singled to left to cut the deficit to 2-1. Jay Knight pinch ran for Eyler and Mark Quaranta promptly doubled through the right side to continue the rally. Knight, however, was called out for missing second base, leaving Quaranta on second with two outs. Sam Nott pinch hit for the Mount, and came through with a clutch double to even the score.

Freshman Michael Locondro pitched a perfect top of the 10th, striking out a pair, to keep the score even at 2-2. In the bottom of the 10th, freshman Brandon Scott led off with a walk and moved to second on a Tommy Flynn sacrifice bunt. Michael Foster struck out and Caron was walked intentionally to put runners on first and second with two outs. Miami (Ohio) pitcher Matt Rosinski followed with a wild pitch in the dirt, and Scott was able to score when the Redhawk catcher threw the ball into left field trying to get Scott out at third.

Miami (Ohio) (3-4) had grabbed the lead by scoring single runs in the top of the third and sixth innings.

Starting pitcher Vincent Molesky had a solid outing, allowing a pair of runs while striking out five in seven innings of work. Karl Lamont, Nick Riley, Colin Stuver and Andrew Schrock combined to hold Miami scoreless in the eighth and nine innings ahead of Locondro, who picked up his first collegiate victory in the game.

At the plate, Quaranta was 2-for-3 with a double while Eyler went 2-for-4 at the plate in the victory.

The Mount plays Xavier on Monday.