NEW LONDON, N.H. – In a rematch of Monday's game, an 8-2 Colby-Sawyer win, the New England College baseball team evened up the season series against the Chargers with a 5-4 victory in extra-innings victory on Wednesday afternoon to secure the team's third Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) victory of the season. 

THE BASICS 
Score: New England College 5, Colby-Sawyer 4 
Records: Pilgrims 5-20, 3-5 GNAC | Chargers 14-11, 5-4 GNAC 

HOW IT HAPPENED 

• After a quiet first two frames, the Pilgrims put two runners in scoring position with a one-out walk followed by a double off the bat of senior infielder Brett Patnode (Weare, N.H.). Senior infielder Johnny Cannavo (Weymouth, Mass.) would do enough on a groundout to shortstop to score graduate infielder Bryce Worth (Southington, Conn.) and break the scoreless tie.  
• In the fourth, with runners on first and second, junior infielder Brady Philibotte (Weare, N.H.) came through with an RBI single to score graduate catcher Aaron Robertson (Weare, N.H.). Freshman outfielder Jason Figuereo (Lynn, Mass.) who singled earlier in the inning, would come home and score on a wild pitch to make it a 3-0 ballgame. 
• With two outs in the top of the fifth, graduate infielder Cooper Ribaudo (Salem, N.H.) singled to right field, scoring graduate infielder Tyler Gendron (Milford, N.H.) and expanding the Pilgrim lead to four.  
• Colby-Sawyer would finally get to NEC starting pitcher Stephen Dunham (Manchester, N.H.) in the sixth inning, piecing together back-to-back hits and finally pushing across a run on a sacrifice fly from first-year Sean Roeger (Salem, N.H.). 
• NEC would take a 4-1 lead into the bottom of the ninth, but the Chargers would threaten with back-to-back baserunners to begin the half-inning. Sophomore Devin Montalvo (Coram, N.Y.) hit into a fielder's choice but drove in a run in the process. Then, with one on and two out, sophomore Jared Schmitt (Surry, N.H.) hit a game-tying two-run home run to send the game into extra innings.  
• With one out in the tenth, Cannavo would leg-out a double to put the go-ahead run in scoring position. Gendron would immediately offer at the first pitch he saw, ripping a double over the left fielder's head and scoring Cannavo to give NEC the lead. In the bottom of the inning, Patnode came on in relief of Dunham and worked around a pair of baserunners to secure the victory. 

INSIDE THE NUMBERS 

• Dunham went a career-high nine innings for the 'Grims, allowing three earned runs and zero walks while striking out six to earn his first win of the season. Patnode pitched a scoreless ninth to secure the first save of his career. 
• Senior Zach Rogers (Mashpee, Mass.) started for Colby-Sawyer, giving up four runs across six innings with eight strikeouts. First-year Hayden Goerlich pitched three-plus innings of relief and suffered the loss in the top of the tenth. 

UP NEXT 

• NEC is back on the field on Thursday when they host the University of Hartford in nonconference action starting at 3:30 PM.  
• Colby-Sawyer also plays their next game tomorrow as they welcome Plymouth State University into town for a doubleheader set to begin at 1:30 PM.