Behrend Baseball Hosts Hiram Thursday

Behrend Baseball Hosts Hiram Thursday

ERIE, Pa. – The Penn State Behrend baseball team will play the Hiram Terriers for a second time this season, hosting a doubleheader on Thursday beginning at 1 p.m.

Coverage
Penn State Behrend vs. Hiram, 1 p.m. – Live Stats | Video
Penn State Behrend vs. Hiram, 4 p.m. – Live Stats | Video

Behrend News & Notes:

* The Lions had their six-game winning streak snapped at home on Tuesday
* Behrend fell to non-conference Allegheny, 8-5 in nine innings
* Freshman Anthony Slate (Hopewell, PA/Hopewell) went 3-for-4 with a pair of runs and a pair of doubles
* Sophomore Juston Jones (Moon Township, PA/Moon) and senior Josh Wagner (South Park, PA/South Park) added two hits apiece vs. the Gators
* Wagner leads the team in hits (13), RBIs (13), runs (10) and home runs (2) for a .419 average
* Jones and and senior hurler Thomas Zbezinski (Gibsonia, PA/Pine-Richland) were named Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Athletes of the Week
* The Lions have 27 doubles this season to rank first in the AMCC and are led by five apiece from senior Braden Paulinellie (DuBois, PA/DuBois Area) and Slate

Hiram News & Notes:

* The Terriers have gone 1-3 since the last meeting with the Lions
* Hiram now sits at 3-7 overall after splitting with Pitt-Greensburg on Monday
* The Terriers earned a 9-4 victory in game one and fell behind 5-3 in game two
* Sam Boyle picked up his first win of the 2021 campaign going four and two thirds innings giving up one earned run with two strikeouts vs. the Bobcats in game one
* Curtis Caithaml is hitting .500 and leads the team with 15 hits and three doubles
* Michael Corsillo is 7-for-7 in stolen bases in 10 contests
* As a team, Hiram is batting .303 and slugging .404

Series History

* Last weekend, the Lions swept the Terriers to improve to 5-3 in the all-time series
* Behrend posted 11-1 and 6-5 victories vs. Hiram
* The series dates back to 1997 and up until this year both teams have not played each other since 2009