TYSONS, Va. – The Towson University baseball team faced George Mason in the final game of the DMV Classic Sunday afternoon at Capital One Park in Tysons, Va.
 
The Tigers (4-11) held one-run leads after the first and fourth innings before the Patriots (11-4) scored two in the fifth and four in the seventh to take a five-run lead. Towson scored three runs on five hits in the bottom of the eighth inning. Both teams were scoreless in the final at-bats for a 7-5 win in favor of George Mason.
 
Key Stats

• Towson reliever Brett Seils (0-2) took the loss, allowing six earned runs on five hits in 2.2 innings pitched. Seils struck out three and walked two.
• George Mason reliever Jake Drumm (3-0) earned the win with three earned runs allowed on seven hits in 3.1 innings of work.

 
How it Happened

• Towson struck first in the bottom of the first. Jordan Peyton led off with a single to right field. He advanced to third and scored on Brian Heckelman's RBI single to left field.
• George Mason's Quinn-Irons tied the game with a leadoff home run in the top of the fourth inning.
• In the home half, three-straight hits from Brady Nathison, Ethan Brand and Peyton gave a one-run lead back to the Tigers.
• The Patriots took their first lead of the day at 3-2 on Alberti's two-run homer to left center in the top of the fifth inning.
• GMU added four runs on three hits in the top of the seventh, with Butler and Clyne plating two each on RBI singles.
• The Tigers scored three runs on five hits in the bottom of the eighth, cutting the deficit to 7-5. Heckelman, Casey Bishop and Brett Ahalt started the inning with three-straight singles to load the bases. Brand knocked in the first run on an RBI single to center. Peyton scored the next a sacrifice fly to right field. The third of the inning came on Nich Francuzenko's RBI single to left field.
• Both teams were scoreless in the final inning for a 7-5 win in favor of the Patriots.

 
On Deck:
The Tigers will face the West Virginia Mountaineers in Morgantown on Tuesday at 2 p.m.