Daniel Cropper(UNC-Wilmington) turned in his third stellar performace of the year but came up with nothing to show for it as the Sharks fall 6-4 in ten innings to the Fayetteville Swampdogs.

Jesse Bosnik(St. Bonaventure) drove in a run in both the first and the fifth to stake Cropper a 2-0 lead. The Seahawk righty made it stand up through seven innings of two hit ball. He fanned a season high ten batters to take his team lead up to 24.

Things would unravel though as the first two runners reached off of reliever Ryan McGrath(Wake Forrest). Then with two down and runners on second and third a wide throw to first on a grounder to third brought home two, eventually sending things to an extra frame.

After Fayetteville plated four in the top of the tenth of off Sean Toler(Missouri State) the Sharks would battle back for two in the bottom of the ninth, but leave the tying runs on first and second as they fall to 5-7.

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  Fayetteville 6 (5-5)                          Wilmington 4 (5-7)

  Player                      AB  R  H BI       Player                      AB  R  H BI
  ---------------------------------------       ---------------------------------------
  Brendan Rowland rf.........  2  1  1  1       Adam Gray 2b...............  4  1  1  1
  Wet Delatte ss.............  5  0  0  0       Greg Bachman 3b............  5  1  0  1
  Jesse Lancaster lf/2b......  4  1  1  4       Adam Eggemeyer dh..........  6  0  3  0
  Matt Skirving c............  5  0  1  0       Jesse Bosnik ss............  5  0  2  2
  Matt Kole 1b/lf............  5  0  0  0       Allen King c...............  5  0  1  0
  Tanner Biagini dh..........  4  0  2  0       Alex Hill lf...............  5  0  1  0
  Eric Grabe 2b/3b...........  4  0  0  0       Kolby Epley 1b.............  5  0  0  0
  Austin Lasprilla 3b........  2  0  0  0       Graham Fronk cf............  3  1  0  0
   Airlon Vinson 3b/1b.......  1  1  1  0       Trevor Willis rf...........  2  0  1  0
   Michael Niemann 1b........  0  1  0  0        Andrew Guerra rf..........  0  1  0  0
  Nathaniel Lami cf..........  3  2  1  0       Daniel Cropper p...........  0  0  0  0
  Ben Graham p...............  0  0  0  0        Ryan McGrath p............  0  0  0  0
   Wes Dutton p..............  0  0  0  0        Sean Toler p..............  0  0  0  0
   Michael Raia p............  0  0  0  0
   Lee Zerrusen p............  0  0  0  0
  Totals..................... 35  6  7  5       Totals..................... 40  4  9  4

  Score by Innings                      R  H  E
  ---------------------------------------------
  Fayetteville........ 000 000 020 4 -  6  7  3
  Wilmington.......... 100 010 000 2 -  4  9  4
  ---------------------------------------------

  E - Skirving, M.(3); Lasprilla, A 2(8); Bachman, G.(3); Bosnik, J.(4); Epley, K.
  2(6). DP - Fayetteville 1; Wilmington 1. LOB - Fayetteville 6; Wilmington 15. 2B -
  Rowland, B.(2). HBP - Biagini, T.; Vinson, A.; Gray, A.; Bachman, G.; Bosnik, J.. SH
  - Rowland, B.(3). SB - Rowland, B.(4); Niemann, M.(4). CS - Rowland, B. 2(3);
  Lancaster, J(1).

  Fayetteville                   IP  H  R ER BB SO  WP BK HP IBB  AB BF  FO GO
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Ben Graham ................   6.0  5  2  2  2  7   0  0  2  0   25 29   3  8
  Wes Dutton ................   1.1  2  0  0  2  1   0  0  1  0    5  8   1  1
  Michael Raia  W,1-1........   2.0  0  2  2  2  3   0  0  0  0    6  8   2  1
  Lee Zerrusen  S,3..........   0.2  2  0  0  0  1   0  0  0  0    4  4   0  1

  Wilmington                     IP  H  R ER BB SO  WP BK HP IBB  AB BF  FO GO
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Daniel Cropper ............   7.0  2  0  0  3 10   0  0  1  0   21 25   4  3
  Ryan McGrath ..............   1.0  1  2  0  0  1   0  0  1  0    4  6   0  2
  Sean Toler  L,0-1..........   2.0  4  4  3  1  1   1  0  0  0   10 11   3  1

  WP - Toler, S.(2). HBP - by Graham, B. (Gray, A.); by Graham, B. (Bachman, G.); by
  Cropper, D. (Biagini, T.); by Dutton, W. (Bosnik, J.); by McGrath, R. (Vinson, A.). PB -
  Skirving, M. 2(2).

  Strikeouts - Rowland, B.; Delatte, W. 3; Lancaster, J; Kole, M. 2; Biagini, T.;
  Grabe, E. 3; Lasprilla, A; Gray, A. 2; Bachman, G. 2; Eggemeyer, A 2; Bosnik, J.;
  King, A.; Hill, A. 2; Fronk, G.; Willis, T.. Walks - Rowland, B. 2; Lancaster, J;
  Lami, N.; Gray, A.; Fronk, G. 2; Willis, T.; Guerra, A. 2.

  Umpires - HP: Nick Painz  1B: Roberto Ortiz
  Start: 7:05pm   Time: 3:15   Attendance: 1243