HAVERFORD, Pa. – Nick Ott rapped out a three-RBI double in the first and later scored the tying run in the seventh inning for host Haverford College on Thursday afternoon at Kannerstein Field. But eighth-ranked Rowan University scored four runs over the final two innings to hold off the Fords and take an 11-8 non-conference baseball win back to New Jersey.

Trailing 7-6 in the bottom of the seventh, Ott worked for a two-out walk then moved up a base with a steal of second. His steal of third drew an errant throw from Profs catcher Evan Hughes allowing Ott to trot home with the tying run.

Rowan (11-3) broke the tie with two runs in the top half of the eighth but Haverford (7-7) trimmed the lead to just one with a run in the bottom of the frame. The Profs picked up a pair of insurance runs in the top of the ninth and the Fords went down in order in the bottom of the inning to allow the visitors to close out the win.

Ott's first-inning double erased the Fords' first deficit of the day as Rowan opened the game with three runs in the top of the first off Haverford starting pitcher Zach Taylor.

With Nick Miranda, Ben Verducci and George Hatamiya on base, Ott drove an offering from Rowan starter Matt Nelson to the base of the fence in left-center field. Justin Coulter followed with a single to center bringing Ott home for the go-ahead run.

Casey Fox singled to left moving Coulter up to second, Mike Tentilucci laid down a sacrifice bunt to push Fox and Coulter up a base, and Thomas Vollaro followed with a single up the middle which brought Fox and Coulter home to give Haverford a 6-3 advantage.

Rowan responded with four more runs off Taylor in the top of the second but he and Rowan reliever Brad Machinski, who came on for Nelson to start the second, settled in and limited the opposing bats over the next few innings.

Anthony Rizzo threw a scoreless seventh, relieving Taylor, and then gave way to Max Gerard to open the eighth. Rowan tagged Gerard (0-1), who suffered the loss, for two runs, one was unearned, and then the Profs picked up their final two, again one was unearned, off Patrick Falkoff in the top of the ninth.

Coulter and Tentilucci had multi-hit games for Haverford with Ott and Vollaro collecting three and two RBIs, respectively.

Machinski (1-1), the pitcher of record when Rowan took the lead in the top of the eighth, earned the win for the Profs.

Next up on the schedule for the Fords is the start of their Centennial Conference slate as they welcome Johns Hopkins University to Kannerstein on Saturday for a doubleheader scheduled to start at 12:30 p.m.