SMITHFIELD, R.I. – Brandyn Durand's second home run in as many games tied the game and Zac Zyons drove in the winning run with single as the Bryant baseball team rallied for a dramatic 9-8 walk-off victory in 11 innings against Maine on a sunny, warm and windy day at Conaty Park.
 
The Bulldogs improve to 25-16-1 overall and 12-5 in league play with their 14th win in the last 15 games. Bryant has won 10 of its last 11 league games, picking up its fourth-straight series victory with Saturday's win.
 
Bryant trailed 8-7 entering the bottom of the 11^th on Saturday. Maine's closer Sebastian Holt returned to the mound for his second inning of work as he looked to close it out. Holt's 1-0 breaking ball to Durand was sent deep to left center for a game-tying solo home run. Matt D'Amato followed with a bloop double down the left field line and advanced to third with no outs.
 
Holt then struck out the next two batters but Zyons rapped a 1-0 breaking ball through the right side to score D'Amato and set off a raucous celebration between first and second.
 
D'Amato finished a home run shy of the cycle, while Zyons (2-5, 2B, 2R), Drew Wyers (2-5, 2B, RB), Gavin Greger (2-5, 2RBI) and Durand (2-5, HR) all finished with two hits.
 
Five Bryant relievers combined to strikeout 13 batters over the final eight innings.

Game Information
Bryant 9, Maine 8 (11 innings)
Records: Bryant 25-16-1, 12-5 | Maine 19-24, 12-8
Location: Conaty Park (Smithfield, R.I.)
W|L|S: Chamberlain (2-0) | Holt (2-2)
 
Key Moments

• Durand tied the game with a solo home run and Zyons walked it off with a single in the 11^th inning.

How it Happened

• Maine took advantage of a two-out throwing error by Zyons on a slowly hit ground ball to score two runs in the first. Zyons' wide throw to first allowed the first run to score and a second scored on an RBI double.
• Bryant responded with a three-run first inning to take the lead. Zyons and Gavin Noriega both walked and Wyers hit a high fly ball that got caught in the wind and dropped in no-mans land in right field. The throw back to the infield got away, allowing Zyons to score. Greger then delivered a two-run single through the right side to make it 3-2.
• Maine tied the game in the second as Chris Bear's pop up carried into shallow right and was caught by a tumbling Charlie Saul, allowing a run to score from third.
• D'Amato then led off the Bryant second with a walk, took third on an errant pickoff and scored on a Cam Papetti sac fly to give Bryant a 4-3 lead.
• Dean O'Neill tied it back up with a long solo home run to left center in the top of the third.
• Bryant responded as Noriega singled to third, advanced to third on a Wyers double and scored an a ground out from Pat D'Amico.
• Brody Rasmussen retied the game with a solo home run to leadoff the top of the fifth.
• In the Bryant sixth, Durand singled to left center and D'Amato scored him with a triple into the right field corner, giving Bryant a 6-5 lead.
• It was short-lived as Evan Menzel hit a two-out, two-run home run to dead center in the top of the seventh to give Maine a 7-6 lead.
• Zyons, though, led off the Bryant seventh with a double and came around to score on a sac fly from Wyers.
• Maine threatened in the eighth, putting two on but Owen Birchard came out of the bullpen to get a big strikeout of Bear to end the inning.
• Landon White stranded a runner at second in the 10^th with a strikeout, as well.
• In the 11th, Whitehead was hit by a pitch and scored as Rasmussen's sinking liner to center alluded a diving Greger for an RBI double.
• Durand then stepped to the plate in the bottom of the 11^th and walloped a 1-0 breaking ball over the left field wall to tie the game. D'Amato followed with a bloop double down the left field line. Holt, however, rebounded to strikeout the next two batters. Zyons then delivered, rolling a game-winning single through the right side to score D'Amato.

Inside the Box Score

• Bryant outhit Maine, 12-11.
• Clay Robbins started for Bryant and allowed four runs (two earned) on four hits over 3.0-plus innings.
• Dylan Scudder struck out five over 3.0 innings of one-run relief.
• Mark Scamardella allowed two runs on two hits over 1.2 innings of relief.
• Birchard struck out three and retired all four batters he faced in 1.1 innings of relief.
• White struck out three in a scoreless 10^th.
• Chamberlain allowed the one run in the 11^th but earned the win as Bryant rallied.
• D'Amato led Bryant with three hits, collecting a double and a triple. He scored twice.
• Zyons finished with two hits and two runs scored.
• Noriega reached twice and scored twice.
• Wyers picked up two hits and drove in a run.
• Greger drove in a pair of runs.
• Durand homered and scored twice.
• Maine's Caleb Leys entered the game with a 0.51 ERA in league play. He allowed five runs (three earned) on five hits over 5.0 innings. He walked three and struck out five.

Game Notes

• Bryant is now 9-6 all-time vs Maine. The Bulldogs are 6-5 in 11 America East meetings.
• The Bulldogs have won 14 of their last 15 games overall and 10 of their last 11 America East games.
• Bryant has won each of its last four league series.
• Bryant is now 12-5-1 at home this season.
• Wyers extended his on-base streak to 24 games and is now hitting .466 with a .564 OBP in America East play.
• Noriega extended his on-base streak to 20 games. He has scored a team-high 23 runs in league play.
• Durand's home run was his second in as many games, both off of Holt. He now has nine on the year and 20 in his career. Durand is the 11^th player in DI program history to hit 20+ homers.
• D'Amato has reached safely in 18-straight games and has nine multi-hit games.
• Greger is hitting .356 with 14 RBI in league play.
• Scudder has now allowed just two runs on six hits over his last 7.0 innings of relief.
• Birchard has struck out 17 in 9.2 innings this year. He has struck out seven in 3.0 innings of relief this week.
• White recorded his seventh-straight scoreless outing. He has struck out 17 and walked just two over 8.0 innings.

Up Next
Bryant and Maine wrap up their series on Sunday afternoon at 12:00 p.m.