TUSCALOOSA – Troy hit two home runs in a 5-run fifth inning and held off several late rallies to defeat No. 24 Boston College, 11-10, in the opening round of
Troy Media Relations the Tuscaloosa Regional at Sewell-Thomas Stadium on Friday. The Trojans scored eight runs on seven hits in the final three innings of the game.
Troy entered the seventh inning without a run and just two hits since a 3-run opening frame. Kyle Mock started the rally with a 1-out double, and Clay Stearns reached on an error to flip the lineup back to the top, where Kole Myers left no doubt with a towering 3-run bomb, his 12th of the season. The Trojans answered back with two in the top of the eighth on a Stearns double and Myers single, but Boston College showed why they were in consideration to be Regional host in the bottom of the eighth as Joe Vetrano hit a 3-run homer to trim the Troy lead to one, 10-9.
With the game tied at 3-all in the bottom of the second, a brief rainstorm hammered the area. The 20-minute rainstorm resulted in a 2:19-minute delay after the field took a considerable amount of rain before the tarp could cover the infield.
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