BABSON PARK, Mass.—Graduate student Luke Tanner (Los Angeles, Calif.) scored on sophomore Chris Basile's (Miami Beach, Fla.) fielder's choice in the bottom of the 10th inning as Babson College defeated visiting Johnson & Wales University, 5-4, in non-conference baseball action on Thursday afternoon at Govoni Field. 

With its fourth straight win, Babson improves to 20-9 on the year. Johnson & Wales has dropped its last three games, two of them in extra innings, to slip to 20-10 overall. 

Senior Brant Savage (Charlton, Mass.) singled twice and drove in a run, Basile was 1-for-2 with two walks and a run scored, and senior Ike Kiely (Falmouth, Mass.) went1-for-3 with two RBI to lead the Beavers. Junior Matt Milone (Amston, Conn.) struck out three and tossed five shutout innings in the first start of his career, while senior Kyle Wolff (Stratham, N.H.) picked up the win with a perfect 10th inning. 

Junior Xavier Botelho (Rehoboth, Mass.) went 1-for-4 with two RBI and senior Jack Magane (Walpole, Mass.) singled twice for the Wildcats. First-year Dylan Young (Stafford, Va.) earned a no-decision after allowing four runs on five hits over 7.1 innings, while junior Ben Fosberg (Natick, Mass.) dropped to 2-2 with the loss. He allowed one run on one hit to go along with a strikeout and a walk in 1.2 innings of work. 

Both teams left runners on in each of the first two innings before the Green and White put together a two-out rally to grab the lead in the third. Savage singled to right to bring home first-year Alexander Wilson (Millburn, N.J.), who led off the frame with a base hit, graduate student John Nowak (Pelham, N.Y.) doubled to left and Basile walked to load the bases before Kiely ripped a single to right center to plate a pair of runs for a 3-0 advantage. 

With runners on the corners, the Beavers executed a double steal as Basile broke for home when junior Owen Davis' (Bristol, Conn.) throw went down to second to make it a 4-0 game. Milone cruised through the middle innings, retiring seven in a row at one point, senior Tristen Spalter (Sergeantsville, N.J.) worked around a two-out single in the seventh and junior Luke McClintock (South Hamilton, Mass.) got a strikeout to strand a pair of runners in the seventh before Johnson & Wales finally broke through in the eighth. 

A walk and an error preceded Botelho's RBI double down the line in left, sophomore Jack Obert (Plymouth, Mass.) plated Davis with an RBI ground out and Fortes singled through the right side with two outs to make it 4-3. Graduate student Zach Magee (Indianapolis, Ind.) got out of bases-loaded jam with a ground out but started the ninth by walking senior Riley Hasson (South Portland, Maine), who came home to tie the game on Botelho's sacrifice fly to force extra innings. 

Wolff needed just seven pitches to get through the top of the 10th and Tanner walked to start the bottom of frame. Savage reached on an infield single and both runners moved into scoring position on a sacrifice bunt by senior Mike Swierczynski (Wallingford, Conn.). Junior Nick Calenda (Warren, R.I.) came on in relief of Fosberg and the Wildcats brought the infield in but Tanner raced home from third on Basile's grounder to second and slid around the tag of Davis for the game-winning run. 

Both teams return to action on Saturday as Babson travels to Coast Guard for a doubleheader starting at 12 p.m., while Johnson & Wales hosts Lasell for a twin bill beginning at 1 p.m. 

GAME NOTES
•    The Beavers are 8-2 all-time against Johnson & Wales and have won two of the last three games between the teams. 
•    Thursday's game was Babson's first extra-innings affair of the year and its first its first win in extras since beating Clark 7-6 in 12 innings on April 18 of last season. 
•    The Green and White is now 4-2 on the year in one-run games. 
•    The Beavers are 16-1 this spring when allowing five runs or fewer.