WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - The Trinity College Bantams totaled 10 runs in the seventh and eighth innings to defeat the Middlebury College Panthers, 11-8, in RussMatt Central Florida Invitatonal baseball action this afternoon.  Trinity completes a two-game sweep of its New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) West Division rivals after winning last night's game against the Panthers, 10-9, in 10 innings, and improves to 6-4.  Middlebury drops to 4-6.  The Bantams return North and will host Salve Regina on Wednesday at 4 p.m.

Trinity trailed, 6-0, after two innings and, 8-1 after six but Trinity played four runs in the seventh inning and took over the lead in the eighth with six more.  The Bantams took advantage of two Panther errors and sophomore SS Jack Mathews (Westport, Conn.) delivered an RBI single to cut the Middlebury lead to 8-4 after seven innings.  In the top of the eighth, the Panthers committed two more costly errors, while sophomore James Stefanowicz (Stamford, Conn.) had an RBI double and classmate Sean Meth (Sands Pont, N.Y.) capped things off with a two home run homer to make it, 11-8.

Trinity received 3.1 innings of scoreless relief from seniors Cameron Crowley (Downers Grove, Ill.) and Will Simeone (Milton, Mass.) to close out the game wih Simeone going the last two and yielding just one hit with one strikeout to improve to 2-0.  The Bantams had just seven hits but walked eight times.  Junior OF Brandoc Chow Greenwich, Conn.) went 2-for-4 with a run, a double, and a walk.