Dover High grad Jordan Hutchins and Joey Loynd each homered as the Delaware baseball team rallied for a 6-3 win over No. 24 Maryland on Tuesday afternoon at Bob Hannah Stadium.

Delaware (7-7), which topped fourth-ranked Notre Dame, 5-4, on Feb. 20, scored the game’s final six runs after giving up three in the third. The victory avenged a 14-4 loss to the Terrapins (14-4) on March 1.

The Blue Hen relief trio of Wyatt Nelson, Luke Pizzico and Mike Biasiello shut down the Terps over the final seven innings.

“This was another fun win against a Top 25 team,” said Delaware coach Jim Sherman. “Just like against Notre Dame, we got good pitching. You couldn’t ask for more of Nelson, Pizzico and Biasiello.”

Sherman added about Hutchins: “Hutch played his best game of the year.”

Hutchins finished with two hits and a pair of RBI.

Caravel grad Kevin Keister drove in a run for Maryland on a sac fly.

The Terps loaded the bases with two outs in the ninth, but Biasiello struck out pinch hitter Ian Petrutz on three pitches to earn his second save of the year.

College basketball

Hens’ Painter honored: Delaware second-team forward Dylan Painter was named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches second team All-District 10 on Tuesday.

Painter, who was selected to the first team last year, becomes the fourth Blue Hen in program history to earn multiple NABC honors.

Painter leads the Blue Hens and ranks ninth in the CAA with 6.6 rebounds per game. He is also second on the team with an 11.9-point scoring average and is third with a 55.1 field goal percentage.

Painter’s five 20-point efforts are tied for the team lead, while he tied his career-high with 23 points to go with 12 rebounds in the home win over Elon. He also added 22 points at UNCW and 21 at Temple.

College football

Hornets open spring practice: The Delaware State football squad was up at the break of dawn on Monday morning to kick off spring practice.

The Hornets are coming off a 5-6 fall season, their most wins since the 2013 campaign.

Delaware State will conduct drills on each of the next three Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, in addition to April 4, April 6 and April 8.
The Red/White Spring game set for April 9 at 2 p.m. at Alumni Stadium.

College bowling

Two Hornets win MEAC awards: Delaware State bowlers Sydney Reardon and Stefanny Toala were named Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Rookie of the Week and Bowler of the Week, respectively.

Reardon collected her third honor of the season after her ninth-place finish at the Dayton, Ohio United States Bowling Congress Sectional over the weekend. Toala posted a runner-up finish at the USBC sectional.

Local sports

Twelve going into Afro-American Hall: Twelve new inductees, including several with ties to Kent and Sussex County, will go into to Delaware Aftro-American Delaware Sports Hall of Fame on April 16.

The group will hold its 23rd annual banquet at Dover’s Modern Maturity Center at 6 p.m.

This year’s inductees include former Milford High multi-sport athlete Carlton E. Adams Sr.; Steven Timothy Davis, a standout running back at Delaware State who went on to play in the NFL; Jeffery Fleming, who was the first African American football referee (crew chief) in Kent and Sussex Counties; the late Charles H. Holley Jr., a multi-sport athlete at Wilmington High; the late Michael S. Irby, a basketball standout at De la Warr High; Andre Matthews, who starred in basketball at both Seaford High and Delaware State; DSU track & field standout LaTisha R. Moulds; Clarence “Sonny” Pritchett III, a multi-sport athlete at P.S. DuPont High; David Snow, the former Wilmington High standout who played football at Duke; Emma J. Trammel, a multi-sport athlete at Seaford High; Vaughn N. Trammell, who excelled in track during the 1970s and former Seaford High football and basketball standout William West.

Tickets for the banquet are $50 and will not be sold at the door. To purchase tickets, call Mike Brown (New Castle) 302-898-9102; Shirley Riley (Kent County) 302-736-1767; or Clemon Jordan (Sussex County) 302-539-5050.