The George Mason baseball team played 10 innings with Delaware on Friday afternoon and the Patriots and Blue Hens couldn't resolve their differences as the contest was suspended due to darkness, tied at 7-7. The contest will resume on Saturday at 1 p.m. and the regularly-scheduled nine-inning game will follow.

The Patriots had 1-0, 3-1 and 5-3 leads but had to overcome a 7-5 deficit to force extra innings. In the eighth, Danny Lyons led off with a single, Nick Allen walked and Chris Cook's sacrifice bunt was misplayed to load the bases with no outs. After a strikeout, Dan Schafferman grounded out to bring home a run and make it 7-6. Shane Davis was intentionally walked and Zack Helgeson reached on a full-count walk to drive home the tying run. The Patriots stranded the bases loaded in the inning though, something they also did in the fourth inning. On the day, Mason stranded 13 runners.

The Patriots took a 1-0 led in the first when Brig Tison singled, Schafferman doubled and Davis grounded out to bring home Tison. But Delaware answered in the second when Aaron Mascoe doubled and scored on a Hank Yates double. In the third, Mason retook the lead when Allen doubled, Cook singled and Tison reached on a fielder's choice with Allen out at home. But Schafferman followed with a double to make it a 3-1 contest.

The Blue Hens immediately answered, though. Dave Anderson singled, and after D.J. Long reached on a fielder's choice that eliminated Anderson from the base paths, Pat Dameron walked and Steve Ulaky and Mascoe followed with RBI singles to make it 3-3. Mason's fourth-inning runs came as Blaise Fernandez singled, Lyons was hit by a pitch and Allen doubled to make it 4-3. Cook's sacrifice fly once again gave the Patriots a two-run lead.

Alex Mottle singled and back-to-back Mason errors brought him home while putting runners on first and second. A sacrifice fly made it 5-5 and Ulaky's homer, the first of the season for Delaware, made it 7-5. The only runs either team scored after the fourth was the two runs Mason posted in the eighth.

Schafferman was 2 for 3 with three RBI while Allen and Tison each had two hits. Jake Kalish was brilliant in relief allowing one hit and no walks with three strikeouts in three innings. Three Delaware relievers combined to allow no earned runs in six innings on just three hits, but they did walk six batters. Ulaky, Mascoe, Yates and Mottle each had two hits.