The Hamilton College baseball team opened Saturday's NESCAC West Division doubleheader at Royce Field against Middlebury College with a 4-3 walk-off win before the visiting Panthers salvaged a split with a 12-6 win in the second game.

Hamilton trailed 3-0 heading into the bottom of the sixth of the seven-inning opener but hit a pair of solo home runs in the sixth and loaded the bases with no outs in the seventh to set up pinch-hitter Cooper Halpern '19 for the two-run, walk-off game winner.

Mike Chiseri '16 and Jordan Northrup '19 singled to start the final inning and Dean Rosenberg '18 walked to load the bases before Halpern won the game with his pinch single.

After the Continentals had been held to two hits over the first five innings, Ryan Wolfsberg '17 started the comeback leading off the sixth with his sixth career home run. Two batters later, Andrew Haser '17 cut the Panther lead to one with his sixth home run of the year.

Haser's totals of six home runs this spring is one shy of Hamilton's single-season record and with 11 in his career, he's two away from matching that record.

The late rally made a winner of Cole Dreyfuss '16. He improved to 4-1 while earning his second complete-game victory in NESCAC West play (he beat 21st-ranked Amherst with a two-hitter two weeks ago). Dreyfuss struck out three while issuing only one walk.

With a 13-8 career record, Dreyfuss is now tied for second on the program's list for career wins, standing three behind record-holder Joe Rowbottom '90.

Middlebury took a 2-0 lead in the fourth on back-to-back RBI singles by Joe MacDonald and Sam Graf. Two innings later, Graf pushed the advantage to 3-0 with a one-out home run.

In the nightcap, the Panthers broke open a 3-3 game with nine runs in the seventh and eighth. Their six-run seventh started when Max Araya hit his first career home run with one out. After a single by John Luke and a Continental error, Graf tripled in both runners and three batters later Johnny Read completed the outburst with a two-run double.

Middlebury tacked on three more runs an inning later with Brendan Donohue driving in two with a bases-loaded single to center.

Araya was four-for-four, scoring two runs and driving in two. Luke and Read had three hits apiece.

Wolfsberg led Hamilton at the plate, going three-for-three with a walk. He scored two runs and drove in two more. Brian Ferrell '16 had a pair of hits and Northrup scored two runs.

Colin Waters, the first of three Middlebury relievers, earned the win. Jake Stalcup picked up his first save, pitching the final 2.2 innings.

Hamilton is scheduled to continue its homestand with a non-league game Tuesday at 4 p.m. against St. Lawrence University.