HAMPTON, Va. – Freshman Gavilan Fogarty-Harnish (Ephrata, Pa./Ephrata) threw six scoreless relief innings, giving the Kutztown University baseball team the opportunity to overcome two two-run deficits in a 4-3 comeback win over the Newport News Apprentice School on Saturday evening. The victory salvaged a 1-1 day for the Golden Bears, who opened their day with a 17-11 loss to Bloomsburg.
 
Fogarty-Harnish faced the minimum in 5-of-6 innings, including the final four after allowing just one runner to reach scoring positing in the top of the fifth. He allowed just four hits and struck out five without walking a batter.

Fogarty-Harnish replaced Peter Masterson (Park Ridge, N.J./Park Ridge), who tied a career-high with five strikeouts in three innings. He gave up two earned runs on four hits.
 
Trailing 3-1 entering the bottom of the fourth, KU (3-1) began its comeback when Brady Carras (Coatesville, Pa./Coatesville Area) tripled home Nick Lafferty (Croydon, Pa./Archbishop Wood) with two outs. The Maroon and Gold then tied the game in their next at bat after Ryan Cox (Aliquippa, Pa./Hopewell (St. Bonaventure)), who led off with a double, came in to score on Bo Rottet (Tamaqua, Pa./Tamaqua)'s RBI fielder's choice.
 
With the game still tied entering the bottom of the seventh, Alec O'Dell (Edgewood, Md./West Chester Bayard Rustin (Harford C.C.)) and Lafferty worked two-out walks to load the bases for Joe Santospago (Doylestown, Pa./Archbishop Wood (Mercer County C.C.)), who also drew a base on balls to drive in Ben Eppley (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland Valley (Frederick C.C.)) for the eventual game-winning run.
 
Newport News got the leadoff runner on in the eighth thanks to an error, but Fogarty-Harnish induced a 4-6-3 double play, and after a one-out single in the top of the ninth, defensive replacement Derian Sarlat (Reading, Pa./Exeter Township) threw out a pinch-runner trying to steal to all but seal the victory.
 
Collin Bishop (Laurel Springs, N.J./Highland Regional) had two of Kutztown's five hits on the evening, including driving in the Maroon's and Gold's first run with an RBI single in the bottom of the second after Newport News had scored twice in the top half of the frame. He also walked.
 
Lafferty also reached base three times with two walks and a hit by pitch, while Eppley went 1-for-3 with a walk.
 
Trailing 4-1 through 3.5 innings against Bloomsburg, KU exploded for eight runs on seven hits in the bottom of the fourth, capped by Rottet's three-run home run that made the score 9-4. Santospago also had a three-run homer in the inning,  his third in three games to surpass his total from all of last year, while Lafferty began the scoring in the frame with an RBI single and Sarlat added an RBI single of his own. 
 
Bloomsburg responded with four runs in the top of the fifth, thanks in large part to a three-run home run of its own, to pull within one, 8-9.
 
Zach Schram (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North (Mercer County C.C.)) extended the lead back to two with an RBI ground out in the bottom half of the inning, and after Bloomsburg cut the deficit to just one yet again in the top of the sixth, Cox's RBI single put Kutztown ahead 11-9 through six innings.
 
Bloomsburg broke the game open in the seventh though, as yet another three-run home run capped a five-run inning to give the Huskies the lead, 14-11, for good. They added their fourth homer of the afternoon, of the solo variety, in the eighth before capping the scoring with a two-RBI double in the ninth.
 
Four Golden Bears finished with two hits in the game. O'Dell and Sarlat each had two base knocks with a walk, with O'Dell scoring twice and Sarlat scoring once with an RBI.
 
Lafferty and Cox each finished 2-for-5 with an RBI, with Lafferty also scoring two runs. 
 
Santospago, who tied the game at 1-1 with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the second, set a new career-high with four RBI. Rottet's three RBI also tied a career-best.
 
Kutztown ends its opening weekend in the Builder Invitational tomorrow, Feb. 26, against Bloomsburg at 1 p.m.