Box Score 

PAXTON, Mass. - Travis Dyke went 2-for-3 with two runs scored, and David Maxfield was 2-for-4 with two runs scored and one run batted in as the Norwich University baseball team ied Anna Maria, 6-6, Thursday afternoon.

The Cadets, who are still searching for their first win of the season, move to 0-8-1. The AmCats, meanwhile, move to 3-7-1 on the year.

It looked like Norwich was going to secure its first victory of the young season, leading 5-1 entering the bottom of the seventh inning. But Anna Maria erupted for five runs in the frame to grab a 6-5 lead. The Cadets refused to go down, though, plating the tying run in the top of the eighth. Neither team was able to score in either the ninth or 10th inning, and the game was called due to darkness in the top of the 11th.

NU scratched out the first run of the game in the third inning on Dustin Fleming's RBI single. The Cadets scored two runs in the sixth thanks in part to four walks issued by AmCats' pitching. Anna Maria forced in two runs with back-to-back based loaded walks.

Anna Maria got on the board in the bottom of the sixth inning when JK Vaughn blasted a solo home run.

Maxfield's run-scoring single highlighted Norwich's two-run seventh inning that gave the Cadets a 5-1 advantage.

The AmCats rallied in the bottom of the seventh, though, pushing across five runs in the frame. Mitch Blair's solo home run in the top of the eighth inning tied the game at 6-6, and that was how the game ended.

David Wygonski started the game on the mound for Norwich, and he threw three scoreless innings for the Cadets. Corey Sheared pitched three innings, and yielded just one run on Vaughn's homer. Ryan Kelly pitched 3.1 scoreless innings of relief for NU, yielding just one hit during his stint.

Norwich returns to action on Saturday, March 28, when the Cadets open their GNAC slate with a doubleheader at Emerson.