Box Score PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – The Arcadia University baseball team tied visiting Penn State-Abington 8-8 Tuesday afternoon at Erny Field after the game was called due to darkness with two on and two out in the top of the 11th inning. The Knights are now 3-18-1 for the season, while the Nittany Lions' record moved to 7-12-1.
 
Arcadia took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first on an RBI-double to center from junior Andonis Yiantsos (Voorhees, N.J.) who later scored on an RBI-single to left off the bat of sophomore Michael Nessel (Stuart, Fla.). Freshman Jordan Draude (Lancaster, Pa.) drove in a run with a single through the right side of the infield in the third and tacked on two more in the fifth to take a 5-0 lead. Yiantsos drove in another run with a double to the gap in left center and then scored on senior Jay Zehring's (Manassas, Va.) single to center.
 
Abington then exploded for six runs in the top of the fifth, which included Kreiling's double to left that scored a pair of runs, to take a 6-5 lead. The Nittany Lions tacked on two more in the sixth on an RBI-single from sophomore Ted Smallwood (Athens, N.Y.) and a passed ball to open an 8-5 advantage.
 
The Knights rallied for three runs in the bottom of the sixth on an error and a bases loaded single to center from sophomore George Pagan (Staten Island, N.Y.) the pushed across Nessel and Draude to tie the game at eight.
 
Both teams had chances to score in the innings that followed and the Nittany Lions had runners on first and second in the top of the 11th on a pair of walks with two outs in the frame before the game was halted.
 
Yiantsos finished 4-for-6 with two doubles, two runs scored and two driven in, while Nessel and Zehring both went 2-for-6 with an RBI and a run scored. Pagan was 2-for-5 with a double, two RBI and a run scored.
 
Kreiling was 3-for-6 with a double, two RBI and two runs scored for Penn State-Abington, while junior Tom Ditro (Philadelphia, Pa.) was 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles. Fran Caruso was 1-for-3 with a double, an RBI and a run scored.
 
Arcadia will be back in action Friday when it hosts a 3:30 p.m. Commonwealth Conference contest against Stevenson University at Erny Field to open a three-game series with the Mustangs.