FORT MYERS, Fla. – The Haverford College baseball team came back from a three run deficit to defeat the Rockford University Regents 7-4 on Saturday afternoon.

With the Fords up 1-0, the Regents put up a two spot in the bottom half of the second inning on a Brian Wiest two run double. In the third frame, Nick Naber doubled home Cole Logeman and then scored on an Evan Frantini RBI knock to put the Illinois school up 4-1.

In the seventh inning, sophomore Thomas Vollaro led off with a walk and advanced to second. After a fielding error put runners on the corners, senior Casey Fox singled up the middle to make the score 4-2. Two batters later, sophomore Jared Deveau walked with the bases load to cut the Haverford deficit to one. The next hitter, freshman Matt Goss, was hit by a pitch to tie the game followed by a freshman Spencer Sohmer sacrifice fly to give the Fords a 5-4 advantage.

Haverford starting pitcher, freshman Justin Herring, struck out seven over three innings of work. The Fords' bullpen was fantastic over the final six innings, shutting out the Regents and giving up just three hits. Senior Michael de Armas picked up the win in his three scoreless innings of relief. Freshman Patrick O'Shea threw two clean innings and extended his scoreless streak to 4 1/3 innings. Senior Clay Bloszies nabbed his second career save with a perfect ninth frame.

Up by a run in the top of the ninth inning, Haverford secured two more insurance runs. Junior Zach Taylor had a pinch-hit RBI single and Vollaro's RBI infield single gave the Fords a three run cushion.

Fox and Goss had multi-hit games in the victory while six different Fords recorded a RBI. Frantini led Rockford with four hits and Naber added three base hits in the loss.

With the victory, head coach Dave Beccaria's squad won its third game in a row and finishes the spring break trip with a 4-5 record. Rockford drops to 6-4 on the year. After returning home from Florida, the Fords will be busy next week with a trip to Immaculata (Mar. 17) before welcoming DeSales on Wednesday (Mar. 18) and St. John Fisher on Friday and Saturday (Mar. 20-21) to Kannerstein Field.