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TOWSON, Md. – Despite scoring seven runs on 11 hits against Towson on Friday afternoon, the Northeastern baseball team was unable to come through with a victory as the Huskies lost a high-scoring affair with the Tigers, 13-7.
 
With two hits in three at-bats, redshirt junior Michael Foster became the sixth Northeastern player in program history to register 200 career hits. The center fielder from Pickering, Ontario, achieved the feat on a two-RBI single up the middle in the top of the eighth inning that kept the Huskies within range of assembling a late-game comeback. He reached base a total of four times with the help of two walks.
 
First baseman Rob Fonseca went two-for-five during the afternoon, notching his eighth double and eighth home run of the season and driving in three RBIs. Gabe Levanti smoked a solo home run to left field in the top of the fifth, while Cam Hanley belted his 10th double of the year during a ninth-inning rally.
 
Nick Berger's afternoon came to an end earlier than anticipated after Towson rallied for seven runs during the first four innings. John Amendola replaced the senior in the bottom of the fourth, but like Berger, allowed six hits during three innings of work. 
 
Northeastern (20-23, 10-6 CAA) pounded out seven extra-base hits compared to just four by Towson (14-30-2, 7-12 CAA). Freshman shortstop Maxwell Burt collected an RBI in the eighth inning on a double hit down the left-field line that scored fellow NU rookie Mason Koppens.
 
Chris Henze and Richie Blosser did Berger in for back-to-back home runs in the third inning that gave the Tigers an early 6-0 advantage. Towson second baseman Colin Dyer and teammate Tristan Howerton each netted a double while starting pitcher Bruce Zimmermann threw 6.1 innings, surrendering four runs, two earned, on five hits.
 
Although the Huskies put runners on base during both the first and second innings, great defense by Towson kept the game knotted in a scoreless tie. A sacrifice fly by Brady Policelli in the second helped the Tigers pull ahead of Northeastern, 1-0, but Berger forced Brendan Butler to fly out to end the frame.
 
After NU went quietly in the top half of the third, two doubles by Howerton and Dyer, with the latter being ground-rule, brought another run across the plate for the Tigers. Three batters later, Henze and Blosser hammered back-to-back home runs, putting Towson ahead comfortably, 6-0.
 
Northeastern would cut into the Tigers' lead courtesy of a solo home run by Fonseca that led off the top of the fourth. However, Towson would tack on another run during the home half of the frame on a single by Mark Grunberg up the middle that scored Butler, making the score, 7-1.
 
NU answered back again in the top of the sixth as Levanti homered to cut the deficit to 7-2, and a two-RBI double by Fonseca in the seventh pulled the Huskies to within three runs trailing, 7-4.
 
Defensive miscues by Northeastern plagued the Huskies in the bottom of the seventh, leading Towson to orchestrate a six-run rally that sent the Tigers in front, 13-4. Levanti, Fonseca, and Foster combined for two singles and a double in the top half of the eighth that brought the Huskies to within six runs at 13-7, but strong pitching by Austin Clark assured the home team the victory in the ninth.
 
Northeastern and Towson will meet again on Saturday, May 2, for the second game of this weekend's CAA series. First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m.