Slippery Rock's Mike Devine take a swing during a 3-2 win over the Butler BlueSox Friday night. The Sliders were held hitless until the eighth inning, but rallied for three unearned runs in the ninth for the win.

SLIPPERY ROCK — The Slippery Rock Sliders scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to record a 3-2 victory over the Butler BlueSox in Prospect League action Friday at Jack Critchfield Park.

The winning run scored on a two-out balk by BlueSox reliever Anthony Munoz. All three of the Sliders' runs were unearned.

Butler High School graduate Josh Marchinoski (3-3) was the winning pitcher with three hitless innings of relief. he struck out five and walked one.

Sean Gusrang was 2-for-3 with two RBI to lead the BlueSox's hitting, which had just four hits.

The Sliders (15-16) did not record a hit until Kenny Stoneback's single with one out in the eighth inning. Tom Nagy had tossed six innings of no-hit ball with five strikeouts and eight walks for Butler (16-15).

Derek Carr singled to open the ninth, then moved to second on a wild pitch and scored on Nick Spisak's bunt single and a throwing error on the bunt.

Spisak would score on Munoz's balk.

The Sliders improved to 6-3 over their Butler County rivals.