Down, but not out.
Losers of three in a row, the Fermi baseball team found themselves in a 5-0 deficit after two innings Wednesday at Tolland.
But the Falcons pushed across seven runs in the third to take the lead and added some late insurance to hold on for a 10-7 win.
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Fermi took advantage of several Eagles miscues in the field and some wildness by starter Troy Ciesco to make it 5-3. With the bases loaded, No. 9 hitter Patrick Bordeau worked the count full before looping a two-run double into the left center gap to tie it.
“That was the play that turned us around and really got the guys going,” Fermi head coach Connell Clark said of Bordeau’s two-bagger. “We’re a confident bunch, but when you’re losing a win like this can pay huge dividends.”
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Fermi’s Trevor Breton wasn’t perfect on the mound, but he was able to pitch out of trouble and keep the Falcons ahead.
Tolland left the bases loaded in the bottom of the fourth and put the first two men on in the fifth, but Breton worked around it, retiring three in a row, including a pair of strikeouts.
“Trevor’s got a great off-speed pitch,” Clark said of the senior, who will pitch at Western New England College next year. “His curve is just as good as his fastball, so it’s tough to sit on his fastball.”
Breton ran into some trouble early, as two of his own miscues along with a booted double play ball helped Tolland take a 3-0 lead in the first. But Ciesco bounced into a 1-2-3 double play to end the inning.
Alex Clifford roped a hard two-run single to left field to make it 5-0 Tolland after two.
“Give them credit,” Tolland head coach Scott Czerwinski said. “We jumped on them early, but they didn’t go away.”
Fermi added a run in the sixth on Joe Bowker’s RBI single, and two more to hold off Tolland, who finished the game with twelve hits.
“If you told me we were going to score seven runs, I would have thought that probably would have been good enough,” Czerwinski said.
Bowker finished 2-for-4 with two doubles and an RBI, and Breton was 2-for-3 with a walk. Tolland’s Nick Cassarino was 3-for-5 with a double, while Brett Ackerly was 2-for-4.
Fermi (2-3) travels to Springfield Central Thursday at noon, while Tolland hosts Newington Saturday at 11 a.m.
