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WILMINGTON, N.C. – Trailing, 4-2, through six innings of Sunday's series finale at UNCW, the Northeastern baseball team used its two-run seventh inning to turn momentum back in its favor before going 12 innings with the Seahawks and earning the 5-4, come-from-behind victory at Brooks Field.
 
Fifth-year senior catcher Michael Geaslen connected on the Huskies' go-ahead hit during the 12th inning. With one out and Jake Rosen aboard at second base, Geaslen poked a ground ball up the middle against Jason Hudak, plating Rosen to provide NU with its first lead since the fifth inning.
 
Northeastern (17-18, 7-5 CAA) received five and one-third innings of out of right-hand starter Kyle Murphy, who induced 12 groundouts, retiring each of the six leadoff batters he faced. Despite the controlled outing, Murphy was on the hook for the loss upon Zachary Bridges and Noah Bridges's back-to-back sixth-inning singles that put UNCW (20-17, 5-4 CAA) in front, 4-2.
 
Jake Farrell responded to the Seahawks' lead by pounding Adam Smith's opening pitch of the seventh inning to right field for two bases. Corey DiLoreto followed by swinging his second RBI hit of the day, singling Farrell in to trim the Huskies' deficit to 4-3.
 
Three batters later, Ryan Solomon tied the game at 4-4 with his RBI single, knocking Smith's 0-2 pitch into center field to bring Jeff Costello across the plate.
 
NU relievers Andrew Misiaszek and David Stiehl combined to throw six and two-thirds scoreless innings of relief, successfully blanking UNCW for the remainder of the game. Misiaszek limited the Seahawks to two hits across his four and two-thirds innings on the mound while Stiehl faced the minimum during the 11th and 12th innings, striking out two batters.
 
Northeastern presented the go-ahead run at third base during the eighth inning, when Scott Holzwasser went from first to third base on a failed pickoff throw – the fifth UNCW error of the game. The Seahawks observed one batter enter scoring position across its final six innings at the plate: Doug Angeli, who advanced as far as second base with one out during the 10th inning.
 
Nine different players accounted for the Huskies' 12 hits. DiLoreto, Costello and Geaslen posted Northeastern's trio of multi-hit performances.
 
Sunday's result marked the Huskies' second all-time victory at Brooks Field during their 20th opportunity, snapping a 10-game stretch without a win that dated back to 2013.