The George Mason baseball team used a fifth-inning grand slam from Dan Schafferman to take a lead on Northeastern and the Patriots scored eight runs in the final five innings to beat the Huskies, 12-6. Mason evened its series with the Huskies at 1-1 and got revenge on Northeastern starter Andrew Leenhouts, who struck out 15 Mason batters in eight innings in last season's meeting.

Schafferman was 4 for 5 with five RBI, Nick Allen had four hits, Brig Tison had three hits and three RBI and Shane Davis and Jake Leonardo each had three hits. Mason had 20 hits on the day against the second-best pitching staff in the CAA. Connor Lyons was 5 for 5 to pace Northeastern while Ricky Salvucci, Matt Miller, Aaron Barbosa and Oliver Hart each had multiple hits.

The Huskies (14-28, 9-14 CAA) scored in the top of the second to take an early lead as Lyons singled, went to second when Hart reached on a fielder's choice and the pair scored on a Salvucci single to right. Mason (20-29-1, 6-20) evened the game in the bottom of the third. Allen and Leonardo led off the inning on a pair of singles and after Chris Cook was hit by a pitch to load the bases, Tison hit a sacrifice fly and Schafferman followed with an RBI double.

Northeastern answered in the fourth when Connor Lyons singled, Sean Lyons doubled and Salvucci had an RBI single. Lyons came home on Barbosa's sacrifice bunt to make it 4-2. But in the bottom of the inning, Mason got to Leenhouts. The first-team All-CAA selection last year who was top 10 in the CAA in ERA coming into the game gave up five hits in the fifth. Leonardo and Hill led off with singles and with one out, Tison singled to load the bases. Schafferman followed with a homer to left, his fifth of the season.

Up 6-4, Mason added to the lead in the sixth when Allen singled, went to second on a Cook single, the pair advanced on a wild pitch, and they scored on a Tison double to make it 8-4. In the seventh, Northeastern pulled to within three when Connor Lyons hit a two-out single and came  home on a Hart double. Mason got to double figures in the seventh. Davis hit a one-out homer and Zack Helgeson, Allen and Leonardo all had singles to make it 10-5. In the eighth, Barbosa hit a one-out triple and scored on an Alan Pastyrnak Jr. ground out.

Mason scored the final two runs of the game in the eighth when Schafferman singled, stole second and scored on a Davis hit. Helgeson was hit by a pitch and Allen made it 12-6 with a single to center. A.J. Johnson (3-5) picked up the win for Mason going five and two-third innings. Brandon Bartlett pitched two and one-third innings while Neight Hoffa pitched a scoreless ninth.