FORT MYERS, Fla. – Haverford (Pa.) College scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to hand the Lakeland College baseball team an 8-7 loss Friday afternoon in the second game of a doubleheader.

Haverford completed a sweep of the twinbill after also winning the first game 16-0. Lakeland dropped to 3-6 overall with two more days of play left on its spring break trip.

The Muskies had just rallied to tie it in the top of the seventh before the Fords came from behind themselves to win it. Peyton Knoll (Fr.-Linden, Mich.) singled with one out and scored on a triple by Jared Rear (Sr.-Belleville, Wis.), and Kenny Pekarek (Jr.-Sagola, Mich.) followed two batters later with a ground-rule double to score Rear and give Lakeland a 7-6 lead.

Haverford came back in the bottom of the seventh, though, with the first two runners reaching on errors and Ben Furlong scoring the tying run on the second miscue. The Fords won the game two batters later when Ben Verducci slapped a single to left field to score Thomas Vollaro with the winning run.

Lakeland built a 5-0 lead early in the game's first 3 1/2 innings before Haverford rallied. Rear delivered an RBI single in the first to score Luke Bacci (Sr.-Grayslake, Ill.), and the Muskies added four runs in the third. Drew Richard (So.-Kieler, Wis.) and Jody Harrison (So.-Pontiac, Mich.) singled in runs and Bacci delivered a two-run single to put Lakeland ahead 5-0.

Knoll, Rear and Pekarek all had two hits each as part of Lakeland's 10-hit attack. Connor Hilburn (Fr.-Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) and Luke Kelly (Sr.-Marinette, Wis.) combined to pitch for the Muskies and allowed 13 hits and eight runs (five earned) with one strikeout.

The first game was one Lakeland would just as soon quickly forget after Haverford blew the game open with 12 runs over the final three innings. The Fords led 4-0 after scoring three times in the third and then scored five runs in the fifth, four in the sixth and three more in the seventh.

The Muskies finished with just four hits, with Bacci, Rear, Hilburn and Travis Regalado (Fr.-Willcox, Ariz.) accounting for the lone safeties. Jack Shevalier (Fr.-Helena, Mont.), James Antley (Fr.-Luling, La.) and Christopher Leopold (So.-Bolingbrook, Ill.) combined to pitch the seven innings for Lakeland.