Seton Hall collected a close 5-4 win against Butler on Saturday to move the Bulldogs to 14-28 overall. The final game of the series will get going Sunday at noon.
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Jack Bello was the player of the game for the Bulldogs. He went 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles and three RBIs. BU recorded 11 hits in the game but Bello's two were the only ones that went for extra bases.
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Bello opened the scoring in the first with a two-RBI double to the gap in left. Drumm and Solomon both scored, but the lead vanished with SHU also scoring two in the first.
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Seton Hall then moved the score to 4-2 in the third with a sac fly and a double to right. Bello and Burgess answered the bell in the seventh to tie the game. Bello's second double of the evening went to left and scored Solomon. Burgess then hit a deep sac fly to left to score Moroknek.
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The Pirates once again fought back and would use a double from Soldra to win the game in the bottom of the seventh inning.
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The two teams experienced a one hour and thirty-minute weather delay in the bottom of the eighth with rain hitting in South Orange, but SHU would return to the field and finish off BU in the ninth.
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Marcus Goodpaster got the start for Butler and went into the seventh inning. He struck out four and didn't issue a walk before handing the ball off to
Nate Rosser. Justin Hornschemeir then recorded the final two outs of the game.
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Seton Hall used four arms in the win. Ryan Reich got the start and went five full. Stephen Curry was credited with the win and Mason Christopher picked up the save.
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