ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. - Baseball's line between hero and goat is so fine, sometimes you can't even see it.

Bard sophomore Adam Carafotes walked it like a tightrope on Sunday. And in the end, he ended up a hero.

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Carafotes went 4-for-8 with two runs scored and three RBI, picked up the save in Game 1, and won Game 2 in relief when he belted a one-out, walk-off, 11th-inning double to give Bard an historic sweep of Vassar College. It was Bard's first doubleheader sweep in Liberty League play.

Game 1, scheduled for seven innings, was 2-2 through three innings. Bard scored a pair of unearned runs in the fourth, and the Raptors were up, 5-3, through five. Bard got an effective start from Steven Marotta, but he was done and replaced by Jeff Goldrosen in the top of the sixth.

With one out, a pair of singles and a passed ball put Vassar runners on second and third. Brooks English (Milton, MA) singled to tie the game at 5-5. English took off for second on Goldrosen's first move and was picked off, but he just kept running. Carafotes took Goldrosen's throw and gunned it into left field, the error putting the potential leading run into scoring position.

Fortunately, Nick Johnson (San Francisco, CA) followed with a hard grounder up the middle, and second baseman David Schlosser, who was shifted into a spot directly behind the second base bag, turned a 4-4-3 double play and the Raptors got out of the inning.

In the bottom of the sixth, Bard loaded the bases on a walk, an error and a bunt single by JP Fisher, which brought Carafotes to the plate with a chance to give Bard the lead. He hit a little nubber in front of the plate, and Quinn McInerney was forced out at home.

Goldrosen roped a single to left to give Bard a 6-5 lead, and Vassar escaped, yielding just one run after a pair of fielder's choices ended the inning.

Carafotes relieved Goldrosen in the top of the seventh and got the save on a flyout, a single and a 6-6-3 double play. It was the third inning Carafotes had pitched all year.

Fisher went 3-for-4 with a pair of stolen bases in Game 1. Alec Montecalvo went 2-for-3 and Nick Kifyak drove in a pair.

In Game 2, Fisher got the start and was immediately in trouble. Two walks and a passed ball put runners at second and third with no out. He got a groundout and two strikeouts to survive it unscathed, but he threw 33 pitches in first frame of a game scheduled for nine innings.

The Raptors picked him up with three runs in the bottom of the first. David Schlosser reached on an error, Fisher singled, and Carafotes singled to make it 1-0. Montecalvo drove in a run with a groundout, Kifyak plated Carafotes with a two-out double, and it was 3-0.

Fisher settled down nicely and cruised through the next several innings, yielding a single run in the sixth on a triple and a groundout. So it was 3-1 going to the bottom of the seventh.

Fisher walked to lead off the bottom of the seventh, went to second on a wild pickoff throw, and stole third. Carafotes singled to make it 4-1, moved to second on a wild pitch, then scored on a Montecalvo single. It was 5-1 heading to the eighth.

Vassar used a double, a bunt single and a walk to load the bases with no outs in the top of the eighth. Bobby Kinne (Great Barrington, MA) doubled to drive in two runs and make it 5-3, and that was it for Fisher. Carafotes came into the game with no outs and runners on second and third.

He uncorked a wild pitch that made it 5-4, and one out later Kyle Casey (San Diego, CA) hit a sacrifice fly to score Kinne, and it was 5-5 going into the bottom of the eighth.

With two outs in the bottom of the eighth, Quinn McInerney tripled, but Carafotes flied out to center to end the threat.

In the top of the ninth, Carafotes walked the tightrope again. With one out, he gave up back-to-back singles, then a walk to load the bases. Kinne and Johnson, Vassar's 3-4 hitters, were up next.

He struck both of them out swinging.

Bard went down quietly in the bottom of the ninth. In the top of the 10th, Vassar got the potential leading run on second with two outs, but Carafotes struck out Jason Garfinkel (Encino, CA) swinging.

Neither team threatened again until the bottom of the 11th. Schlosser, who saw his 15-game hitting streak end in Game 2, walked to lead off. He was forced out at second when McInerney's ensuing bunt was too hard and went right to the pitcher, so McInerney was at first on a fielder's choice.

Carafotes strode to the plate with another chance to win it. On a 3-1 count, he ripped a double to the gap in left-center, and McInerney scored, setting off a celebration and a dog pile in the infield.

Bard improved to 7-24 overall, 3-17 in the Liberty League. Vassar fell to 7-17, 6-16.

The Raptors have five games remaining in the 2015 season. They'll host John Jay in a single non-league game on Tuesday afternoon at 4, then play a season-ending four-game series with Skidmore over the weekend.

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