Behrend Baseball Hosts Allegheny in Home Opener Tuesday

ERIE, Pa. – The Penn State Behrend baseball team will host the Allegheny Gators in their home opener on Tuesday afternoon. The single nine-inning game will begin at 3 p.m.

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Tuesday, March 23              
Penn State Behrend vs. Allegheny, 3 p.m. – Live Stats | Video

Behrend News & Notes:

* The Behrend Lions are one win away from tying the 7-0 start from the 2010 team
* The Lions have outscored their opponents 73-20 in the first six games
* Behrend is playing its next five games at home
* The Lions are coming off a pair of road wins this weekend, sweeping Hiram and Penn State Altoona
* Sophomore Juston Jones (Moon Township, PA/Moon) and senior hurler Thomas Zbezinski (Gibsonia, PA/Pine-Richland) were named Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Athletes of the Week
* Jones, the Player of the Week, hit .563 in a 4-0 week. He had three multiple hit games, including a 4-for-5 performance in game two vs. Altoona on Sunday
* Jones hit an RBI double in the top of the seventh to secure the win over Altoona in game one. For the week, he tallied nine hits, six RBI, three doubles and one triple
* Zbezinski, the Pitcher of the Week, got his first win in his first start of the season, pitching five innings and striking out eight in an 11-1 win at Hiram on Saturday
* As a team, Behrend is hitting .414 and holds four of the five top spots in the AMCC in batting average
* Sophomore outfielder Colin Harger (Pittsburgh, PA/Shaler) leads the conference with a .611 batting average and senior Josh Wagner (South Park, PA/South Park) is first with 14 RBIs

Allegheny News & Notes:

* The Gators open the season with this single game vs. the Behrend Lions
* Allegheny closed out the 2020 season on a four-game winning streak
* The Gators posted a 5-2 record last year before the shut down
* In the seven games played, Brett Heckert led Allegheny with 12 hits, 11 runs and eight RBI
* The Gators have 40 players on this year's roster, featuring seven seniors
* Head Coach Brandon Crum enters his fourth season with Allegheny

Series History

* The all-time series between the Lions and Gators dates back to the 1987 season
* Allegheny has a 33-12 advantage over Behrend
* The teams did not play in 2020 due to the pandemic
* In 2019, the Gators posted an 18-2 win in the first meeting and Behrend tallied a 7-4 victory in the second single game