HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. – The University of Dayton baseball team led throughout the contest, but a late surge by Northern Kentucky University gave the host team the win in the 11^th.

The Flyers (13-25) controlled most of the game, but the Norse (15-22) scored on an error in the bottom of the 11^th to seal the walk-off victory.

SCORING BREAKDOWN

• Top of 2^nd – After loading the bases, a pair of walks by Robbie Doring and Connor Echols made it a two-run Dayton lead. A sacrifice fly by Aaron Huesman then extended the advantage even further for the visitors. Dayton 3, NKU 0
• Bottom of 6^th – The Norse were finally able to get on the board in the sixth inning with a pair of runs on an RBI double and an RBI single. Dayton 3, NKU 2
• Bottom of 9^th – NKU went into its last at-bat needing a run and got it on a sacrifice fly, evening the game up at 3-3. Dayton 3, NKU 3

KEY STATS

• The Flyers matched the Norse with eight hits each, with eight different Dayton players getting a single hit in the contest.
• Doring, Echols, and Huesman recorded the three RBI.
• Dayton scored all three runs in the second inning.
• Starter Tyler Henry pitched three shutout innings with a lone hit being the only spot on the freshman's record Wednesday.
• Reliever Ben Polansky threw the next three innings, allowing two runs, unearned, on three hits. Jason Johnson came on for the seventh before Kevin Piersol pitched the eighth. Sam Brunner gave up a run in the ninth, sending the game to extra innings. Masashi Sakamoto (L, 0-3) pitched in the 10^th and walked the first batter in the 11^th, which went on to score the winning run for NKU.

UP NEXT

• The Flyers host George Washington this weekend in a three-game Atlantic 10 series starting Friday at 3 p.m.