OLSH made the final weeks of the Section 2-A baseball season a lot more interesting, even if it took two days.

Matt Racke's two-run double broke open a tie game as the Chargers earned a 6-3 home win over Cornell last week, coming from behind on Thursday after rain stopped the game one day earlier.

The win put OLSH (5-8, 4-6) and Cornell (6-9, 4-6) in a tie for the final playoff spot in the section with five games left, including a season-ending meeting between the two, scheduled for this Wednesday in Coraopolis.

"This was definitely a tough one," Cornell coach Nate Torboli said.

"It puts us even with them and now we're fighting for the third spot. We going to approach it as trying to win all five games and go in to the playoffs on a roll."

"The biggest thing is that we've got to play with our hearts," said Andrew DeSalle, one of OLSH's four seniors.

"That's the message we're finally getting across to some of the young guys, and we're seeing it produce on the field."

The Chargers didn't lose heart against Cornell, despite falling behind on the first at-bat of the game.

Cornell's Christian Jackson opened the game with a leadoff home run and Dan Bosetti added an RBI in the first inning, staking the Raiders to an early 2-0 lead with four hits off OLSH pitcher Ron Glozzer.

"I'm not one to get frustrated on the mound," Glozzer said.

"(Falling behind) didn't really faze me. I just had to get settled and I got the work done."

Glozzer got work done at the plate, as well, helping to tie the game in the bottom of the second.

Singles by Bryan Kyper and Dylan Zeneski put runners on base for OLSH, allowing DeSalle to bring one home with a sacrifice fly and Glozzer to score another with an RBI double.

The game remained tied until the fourth, when Billy Mackey drove in Jake Almasy to give Cornell a 3-2 lead, which they would take into the fifth.

With two outs in the top of the fifth, the dark clouds that had been moving toward the field arrived, bringing lightning and rain that forced the umpires to order the teams to take shelter. The rain made the field unplayable for the night, causing the teams to return on the following day to finish.

The postponement forced each team to switch pitchers, as DeSalle took over for Glozzer after 4 2/3 innings. For Cornell, Bosetti relieved Bryan Korzen, who had racked up seven strikeouts in his four innings of work.

"You can't control the weather," Torboli said. "We knew what we had to do coming back here and the ball didn't bounce our way."

The first bad break for the Raiders came just three batters after the resumption.

DeSalle struggled to find the strike zone, walking the first two batters he faced. But with the bases loaded and two outs, Glozzer, now playing catcher, fired a pickoff throw to second, getting Ryan McCutcheon out to end the Cornell threat.

"I had to finish my job from yesterday," said Glozzer, who was responsible for the runner on third. "Drew came in and did a good job to get the win."

"I'm not a pitcher by nature. This is one of the first year's I've actually done it," DeSalle said.

"I just had to get in a groove and get things going. I had my curveball working and had good velocity."

The Chargers still needed to score to win, and they did just that in the sixth, taking their first and only lead of the game.

Zeneski and DeSalle singled to lead off the inning, then Glozzer put down a sacrifice bunt to advance the runners. That brought up OLSH's top hitter, junior David McNeill, with one out.

Rather than face McNeill, hitting .618 this season with three home runs and 18 RBI, the Raiders walked him to load the bases. Bosetti struck out Graham Harkins for the second out, but then walked Jamie Uziel, bringing the tying run home.

Racke then stepped to the plate, and the sophomore put the game away on the first pitch.

"He threw a fastball, high and inside," Racke said. "I was looking fastball on the first pitch. I just kept my weight back and laid on it."

The hit scored DeSalle and McNeill, while Uziel scored on an error, as the throw from the Cornell outfield sailed out of play. With a 6-3 lead, DeSalle pitched a 1-2-3 seventh inning to record the win.

"We've got a lot of young guys and a lot of guys playing out of position," DeSalle said. "I, myself, have started at six of the nine positions."

"But we're definitely getting used to things and we're starting to settle in. Hopefully we can get back to the playoffs."