BALTIMORE, Maryland March 8, 2016 - Burnley trailed Fulham on the road Tuesday evening, and with Middlesbrough just one point back and scheduled to take on relegation-threatened Rotherham, it looked like the Claret would lose the lead in the Championship by night's end. Sam Vokes and Andre Gray saw to it that Burnley did no such thing, and when the second place team slipped up at Rotherham, the lead of the Lancashire lads actually expanded to 4 huge points.
According to the Daily Mail, Vokes gave the road team an early lead, thanks in no small part to an assist from Scott Arfield. But the Claret then saw Fulham come back and grab the advantage at halftime on scores by Moussa Dembele and Ross McCormack. The Fulham fans at Craven Cottage wish the match ended at the half, because the second stanza was all Burnley. Tom Heaton was brilliant in the Claret net on a night that his defense had a rare off-night. After the half, Joey Barton was fouled in the box, and Vokes made the penalty kick count to tie the affair at 2. Then Gray struck again. Heaton made absolutely sure that there would not be another equalizer by the home team, and the final whistle sounded with Burnley ahead, 3-2.
Then word came that Middlesbrough lost at Rotherham, thanks to a late score by Lee Frecklington, leaving Burnley atop the Championship with 71 points. Middlesbrough remained in second with 67 points.
Delaware Scores In 7 of 9 Innings, Then Holds Off Frantic Maryland Rally to Defeat Terps, 10-8
The Delaware Blue Hens scored at least one run in each of the first six innings, then held on for dear life during a frantic Maryland 9th inning rally, to defeat the Terps for a second time this season, this time by a score of 10-8.
Delaware broke on top, 9-3, after they batted in the top of the sixth of the game played at Harford Community College in Bel Air, Maryland. HCC is about half-way between the two schools. Terp coach John Szefc was so determined to shut the Blue Hens offense down that he summonsed his top line reliever, Robert Galligan, to pitch the 7th and 8th innings. Andrew Miller, a 6'2" Freshman Southpaw from Stratford, New Jersey, then struck out the side for the Terps in the 9th inning, but by then the damage was done. Trailing 9-3, Maryland got two runs back in the bottom of the sixth on a bases loaded walk to Nick Dunn and a hit batsmen. But the Terps came to bat in the bottom of the 9th trailing, 10-5. With one out, freshman Nick Browne came up as a pinch hitter and doubled. Brownne scored one out later while Papio was reaching on an error. Andrew Bechtold, the Maryland third baseman, then walked. Both Papio and Bachtold moved up a base on a balk call. Then Maryland's Freshman Catcher, Dan Maynard, plated both Papio and Bechtold with a double. The score was now 10-8, and Maryland was bringing the tie run to the plate. That batter was pinch hitter Jamal Wade. Wade was hit by the pitch. Now the tie run was on base and the winning run was at the plate in the person of Junior outfielder Madison Nickens. Nickens came to bat on a 1-2 afternoon. He was the second batter in the Terps starting line-up. Sadly, he struck out, ending the Maryland rally.
Maryland returns to action today (Wednesday, March 9) back in College Park against George Washington. The Terps are now 5-6 while Delaware improved to 7-4.
After the GW game, Maryland hosts Bryant in a three-game series this weekend, before leaving on a four-game, five-day West Coast road trip that will see them play a single game against the University of California at Irvine Anteaters one week from today and a three-game weekend set at California State at Fullerton. Then, after a March 22 game in College Park against Liberty, the Terps travel to Iowa City to open the Big Ten Campaign against the Iowa Hawkeyes on March 25. That game will be the first of a three-game conference set.
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