HARTFORD, Conn. - The Trinity College baseball team fought back against visiting Nichols College Wednesday afternoon but fell short in extra innings, 13-11, on Murren Family Field at DiBenedetto Stadium this afternoon. Junior Brandon Chow (Greenwich, Conn) totaled RBIs while rookie Tanner Fairchild (Sarasota, Fla.) and sophomore Sean Meth (Sands Point, N.Y.) added two RBIs apiece. The Bantams were down, 10-2, in the fifth inning but battled their way back to a tie ballgame through nine frames. The Bison put two runs on the board in the top of the 10th. Trinity moves to 10-10 with New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) West rival Amherst College up next in a three game series beginning Friday afternoon in Massachusetts.

The Bantams got on the board first when senior Colin Mann (Dedham, Mass.) singled to left field and drove in sophomore Bennett Teceno (Centerville, Mass.). Nichols tied the game in the third inning on a bases-loaded walk, but the Bantams once again took the lead later that inning when Meth singled home Teceno home again. The fourth inning saw seven runs by the visitors who took a commanding 8-2 lead. A two-run jack in the fifth inning by Johnny Knox increased the Bison advantage to 10-2.

In the sixth inning, Bantam senior tri-captain RHP Justin Olsen (Avon, Conn.) entered the game and the Bantams, who used four hurlers in the first four frames, some stability on the mound. In the bottom of the sixth, the Bantams scored five times including four on a single from Meth, a two-run double to right by junior CF Brandon Chow (Greenwich, Conn.), and another single by Fairchild. The visiting team tacked on one more run in the seventh, Chow came through again, batting in two more scores for the Bantams.

In the bottom of the eighth, Trinity evened the score at 11-apiece when Meth walked and junior C Jake Miller (Marblehead, Mass.) delivered a two-out single that scored Andrew Touzzolo home although the Bison gunned down the game-winning run at the plate. Olson posted an impressive 1-2-3 inning in the ninth but came up empty in the bottom of the ninth. With the bases loaded in the tenth, Nichols sent two runners home when Isaac Blanford singled up the middle with two outs. Sean pitched a perfect ninth to earn a save for winning pitcher Brian Duffy.