Joey Gilmore sent this ball over the left-center field fence for a three-run homer during Saturday's second inning, giving Wooster a 4-0 lead at the time.

WOOSTER, Ohio – The College of Wooster built a 7-3 lead through five innings, however, Allegheny College combined for eight runs over the last two to upend the No. 17 ranked Fighting Scots by an 11-9 score in their home and North Coast Athletic Conference East Division opener Saturday at a cold and very windy Art Murray Field.

The scheduled doubleheader was not completed, as game two was suspended in the middle of the fifth inning, with Allegheny ahead 12-6. It will be continued Sunday, starting at 11 a.m., followed by the third and fourth games of the divisional series.

Wooster (9-3, 0-1 NCAC East) opened the scoring when Jamie Lackner, who led NCAA Div. III in home runs a season ago with 17, hit his first homer of 2016, poking one over the right-field fence to start the bottom of the second.

Later that inning, Drew Tornow beat out a high hopper to the second baseman for an infield single, Tyler Schuch drew a walk, and Joey Gilmore smacked a three-run homer to left-center – also his first of the campaign – to make it 4-0.

Allegheny (6-7, 1-0 NCAC East) answered with a three-run third inning, which included a wind-aided Patrick Orr home run.

The Scots regained the momentum via a single tally during the fourth and two in the fifth. Schuch took a hit by pitch, advanced to third when Gilmore delivered a sharp single into right, and crossed home on a groundout for the fourth-inning run.

In the fifth, Tornow hit a hard two-out single up the middle to plate Lackner, who had walked, and Ryan Ostendorf, who doubled.

That gave ace Michael Houdek a four-run cushion, but the Gators got to him in the sixth with a leadoff walk, back-to-back singles, and a Tyler Wagner two-run double into the right-center gap.

Next, pinch hitter Max Sessions greeted a relief pitcher with a three-run drive over the right-center fence, and all of the sudden Allegheny held an 8-7 advantage.

Gilmore helped Wooster bounce back with a leadoff single in the bottom of the sixth. He eventually trotted home on Michael Wielansky's two-out base hit to left, and then the Scots seemingly caught a break as an unearned run on a two-out error gave them the lead back at 9-8.

The Gators responded again, this time plating three in the seventh, which began with back-to-back walks. Joe Killian followed with an RBI double down the left-field line to tie the score, Dan Bonnett provided what turned out to be the game-winner via a sacrifice fly, and Andrew Dawson added an insurance run on a double.

Wooster was unable to rally in the bottom of the seventh, as its 18-game home winning streak ended.

In addition to Gilmore's three-hit game (3-for-4), Wielansky and Tornow both went 2-for-4 for the Scots.

Killian was the lone Allegheny player with a multi-hit outing, going 2-for-4.