SELINSGROVE, Pa.- The Juniata baseball team mounted a furious comeback but couldn't quite complete it, losing on the road to Susquehanna University, 14-10, Wednesday evening at Bollinger Field.
Dakotah Snyder went 2-5 with a home run, three RBI and a run scored, while Charlie Bakken was 1-4 with a walk, a triple, and three runs scored. Zach Johnston went 1-5 with two RBI, while Jordan Chui was 1-2 with two walks and two runs scored.
Susquehanna jumped on the Eagles early, scoring eight runs in the first three innings, including a grand slam in the third.
Connor Blough sent Bakken home in the second with a sacrifice fly to center for JC's lone run early.
SU added four more in the fourth as the Eagles trailed 12-1.
Johnston drove in a Chui and Blough with a two-run single to center in the fifth, and Corey Daniels walked with the bases loaded in the sixth to make it 12-4. SU got one back in the bottom half of the sixth to make it 13-4.
Juniata scored four runs on three hits and an SU error in the seventh, highlighted by Snyder's three-run blast to left as JC cut the deficit to five.
The Eagles continued to have offensive success in the eighth as Bakken drove in Warren with a triple and later scored on a wild pitch to bring JC within three.
Juniata got no further, and SU added an insurance run in the bottom half of the eighth for the final run of the game, 14-10.
The Eagles will begin a three-game series at Moravian this weekend, with the first pitch of game one scheduled for noon.
