GREENSBORO, N.C. - The SU baseball team erased a two-run deficit in the bottom of the ninth and eventually pushed across the winning run three innings later to give Shenandoah a 4-3 victory in game two of a Dixie Conference doubleheader Saturday afternoon. 

Shenandoah (5-13-1, 1-5) salvaged a split with the victory. Greensboro (7-14, 2-4) was a 14-7 winner in game one. 

SU won the nightcap in the top of the 12th inning when senior Rodney Wooden (Baltimore, Md./Woodlawn) led off with a single and moved to second on a error by losing pitcher Andrew Keever. Josh Bosley (Oakland, Md./Garrett CC) then moved Wooden 90 feet from paydirt with a flyout to center.

After Tyler Daniel (Richmond, Va./JR Tucker) was intentionally walked, junior Dusty Crostic (Chesterfield, Va./LC Byrd) drove Wooden in with a single to left center.

The two hit rally made a winner of freshman Gerry Sasse (Philadelphia, Pa./Penn Charter), who gave up three hits over the final two innings of the ballgame. This is his first collegiate victory.

The Hornets had 13 hits in the win, including three each by Wooden and Crostic. 

Game one was not as kind to the visitors; GC scored at least one run each turn at bat and led 10-0 before SU pushed across two runs in the both of the sixth.

Freshman Mike Christoforo (Arlington, Mass./Arlington) had three of the Hornets 12 hits while Wooden and Bosley had two hits and two RBI.

Complete box scores and plays by play for these two games can be found on the SU web site at http://www.su.edu/athletics/bb/2003/teamstat.htm

Shenandoah is off until 2002 College World Series participant Christopher Newport visits for a Wednesday doubleheader.