Seton Hill opened play at the Atlantic Regional 1 hosted by West Chester against a familiar foe, taking on PSAC West rival Slippery Rock. The Rock won the season series between the teams, but the Griffins wrote a different story Thursday, rallying from an early deficit by scoring 10 consecutive runs to claim a 10-2 victory.

The triumph improved SHU's record to 32-17-1 and moved them into Saturday's 11 am game against a team to be determined.

Seton Hill faced a deficit in the early going, as the Rock got a two-out, two-run single in the bottom of the first to take a 2-0 advantage. The Griffins left runners on in the first and second innings, but cashed in on their scoring chance in the third. With two outs, Vincenzo Rauso hit an RBI single to get the scoring started and that was followed by an error to score the tying run, an RBI single by Brandon Kline and a two-run single by Jack Oberdorf for a 5-2 Seton Hill lead.

The lead continued to expand with SHU runs in the fourth and fifth innings. Leading off the fourth, Owen Sabol cranked a solo homer to left to make it 6-2 and in the fifth, Neal McDermott hit an RBI single for a 7-2 lead. On the mound, Brandon Bergert started and threw the first 4 1/3 innings. Rock mounted a threat in the 5th and Marshall McGraw was brought in from the pen. After a single loaded the bases, McGrew escaped the jam with a K and catching a hot smash back up the middle to keep the Griffin lead at five runs.

After a scoreless sixth inning, Seton Hill blew the game open in the seventh with three more runs, all with two outs. McDermott ripped an RBI double down the left-field line for the first run and then scored on a single by Sabol. The inning was capped by a Rauso RBI single and the SHU lead swelled to 10-2.

The Seton Hill bullpen handled it from there. McGraw earned the win after he totaled 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief before Ian Korn came on in the 8th and finished with two hitless inning of work.

The Griffin bats picked a great day to set a season-high for hits, as they pounded out 19 in the game and all nine starters had at least one. They also delivered at clutch times, with nine of the 10 runs scoring with two outs in an inning.

McDermott led the barrage, by going 4-for-5 with two RBIs and two runs scored. Braden Durham had three hits, as did Rauso, who drove in a pair. Oberdorf and Sabol both had a pair of hits and two RBIs each and Kline also had two singles in the contest.