The Lancaster Bible College baseball team played its final non-conference game of the season on Wednesday in Annville, Pa., as the Chargers dropped a marathon game to Lebanon Valley, 8-7 in 13 innings. The loss drops the Chargers to 11-18 overall this season, while the Dutchmen capped their year at 16-23.
 
How it Happened: Lancaster Bible got on the board in the top of the first, as senior Will Welsh singled through the right side to score Josh Saufley who had walked earlier in the inning. Jacob Schenck walked following Welsh's single, and Adam Cohick was hit by a pitch to load the bases. A wild pitch with the bases loaded scored Welsh, and moved the other runners up a bag, while Beau Heagy walked to load the bases again. The inning ended with no further damage for the Dutchmen, who then scored a run of their own in the bottom half of the inning.
 
Lebanon Valley tied the game in the fourth inning, but Welsh singled in the top of the fifth, and then came around to score on a single from Cohick, as the Chargers regained the lead, 3-2. The Dutchmen offense woke up in the sixth, as the home team scored three times to take a 5-3 lead, but again the Chargers wouldn't go away. Welsh doubled to lead off the seventh, and after two outs, scored on a single from Heagy to cut Lancaster Bible's deficit to one, 5-4.
 
The Dutchmen scored twice more in their half of the seventh inning to take a 7-4 lead, but Lancaster Bible came right back with three runs in the eighth to tie the game at 7-7. Schenck's sacrifice fly scored Nate McFarland, while a throwing error led to Luis Padilla Jr. scoring to make it 7-6. Another error by the Dutchmen followed, and Welsh tied the game at 7-7.
 
The contest would stay that way through the 12^th inning, as both teams had chances to score, but couldn't get anyone across the plate. The bottom of the 13^th looked to be going that way as well, as Josh Noll worked induced a double play line-out to get two outs, but a walk, followed by a double, scored the winning run, and the Dutchmen won as darkness approached just past 8:10 p.m.
 
Inside the Box Score: Lancaster bible had 13 hits, while the Dutchmen had 16…Welsh finished 3-for-6 with a walk, four runs and an RBI…Colin Myers was 2-for-7, and Saufley was 2-for-5 with two walks and a run…Padilla was 2-for-6 with a walk and an run, while Heagy was 1-for-5 with a walk and a run…Jacob Stong started on the mound for the Chargers, as he allowed five hits over four innings and two earned runs, while striking out one…Tony Gehman and Colin Harkey pitched the middle two innings, while Landon Mowry pitched a season-high four innings, allowing just four hits and striking out two…Noll pitched the final 2 2/3 innings, as he struck out two, and allowed two hits.
 
Information Hodge Podge: Lancaster Bible is now 0-5 all-time against Lebanon Valley…Tuesday's 13-inning game is the longest game in program history, besting the 12-inning affair between Lancaster bible and Cazenovia on Apr. 16, 2016…Tuesday's game lasted 4 hours and 40 minutes…Welsh has 57 hits this season, and can become just the third player in program history to eclipse the 60-hit mark this weekend.
 
Up Next: Lancaster Bible wraps up its regular season this weekend, as the Chargers face Penn St. Abington on Friday and Saturday…With the North Eastern Athletic Conference playoff picture still forming, the Chargers will most likely need one or two wins to advance to the NEAC Playoffs.