Box Score SPRINGFIELD, Mass.--Host Western New England and Westfield State universities played to a 2-2 draw through 13 innings before umpires called the non-conference baseball game due to darkness on Thursday on Pat Ricci Field at George Trelease Park.

The 3-hour and 20-minute contest was suspended at 7:20 p.m. and goes into the NCAA record books as a tie, signaling WNE's first since the 1998 season.

Western New England senior co-captain Steve Ambrosino connected for two singles.

No. 9 hitter Tyler Adams was 2 for 5 for the Owls. Westfield late-game substitute D.J. Bishop had the only extra base hit, a ringing two-out double off the third baseman's glove that placed runners at second and third in the 12th inning. But sophomore Tom Mahoney recorded one of his five strikeouts over 5-1/3 innings of solid relief pitching to end another scoring threat.

The Golden Bears held a 2-0 lead through seven innings backed by the strong one-hit pitching of senior pitcher Brendan Nugent. Western New England scored single runs in the first and third innings off Owls starter Justin Thomson. Sophomore Kevin Marciano led off with a single, advanced to second base on a groundout and scored on Ambrosino's RBI single to right field. In the third, sophomore T.J. Wyrebek was hit by a pitch, scampered to third on Ambrosino's single to right field, and scored on senior co-captain Jeff Schult's sacrifice fly to deep center.

But the Owls rallied to tie the score in the top of the eighth by scoring two runs on three singles and a costly error.

Sophomore catcher Evan Moorhouse led off the eighth by getting a single up the middle. Moorhouse stole second and, following two strikeouts, advanced to third on Pat McWilliams' single to deep shortstop. Moorhouse scored Westfield's first run when Tim Santilli reached safely on an error in the infield. Danny DiMatteo then drove home the tying run on a solid single up the middle that easily scored McWilliams from second base. Mahoney entered the game and retired pinch-hitter E.G. McMillan on a groundout to end the inning.

WNE outhit Westfield, 8-7. The Golden Bears stranded 13 base runners, Westfield nine.

Nugent finished with eight strikeouts and allowed two walks and four hits in 7-2/3 innings. Mahoney gave up three hits and a walk. Only one Westfield batter hit the ball on a fly to the outfield in the 13-inning marathon, a left field putout on the game's first pitch.

Westfield's five pitchers combined for 11 strikeouts. They only walked three but hit four batters. Garrett Briggs hurled the final six innings, allowing three hits and a walk while whiffing five.

Western New England is 12-14-1 and plays a non-conference affair at UMass Boston at 4 p.m. Friday at Brockton's Campanelli Stadium. Westfield's record moves to 12-11-1 heading into Friday's conference doubleheader at Framingham State.

(Editor's note: Westfield State Athletics contributed to this game recap.)