Behrend Baseball Set To Honor Five Seniors Against Pitt-Greensburg

ERIE, Pa. - The Penn State Behrend baseball team will honor seniors Nathan Campbell (Wexford, PA/North Allegheny), Devin Hicks (Clifton Springs, NY/Midlakes), Anthony Slate (Hopewell, PA/Hopewell), Jeff Zick (Moon, PA/Our Lady of Sacred Heart), and Will Jamison (Shaler, PA/Shaler) in a ceremony this Sunday, April 28 against Pitt-Greensburg. Game times are set for 1 and 4 p.m.

Coverage:

Game One Live Stats | Game Two Live Stats | Video

Behrend News & Notes:
* The Lions are 4-1 so far this week, defeating Hiram in a single game, splitting a doubleheader at Alfred State, and sweeping Wells in a twinbill
* Starters Ethan Tinker (Pittsburgh, PA/Avonworth) and Andrew Bredel (Clinton, PA/Burgettstown) threw shutouts against the Express on Thursday
* In game one, David Gibson (North East, PA/North East) and Spencer Deitz (Erie, PA/McDowell) finished with a game-high three hits, while Hank Shaffer (Saegertown, PA/Saegertown) drove in two runs
* Slate delivered his 100th career base hit with a single in bottom of the third of game one
* The Lions were led in game two by Chase Palmer (Brookville, PA/Brookville) who finished 3-for-3 with four runs batted. Shaffer and Dylan Barnes (Pittsburgh, PA/North Hills) recorded two hits apiece
* Palmer and Daniel Boehme (Peters Township, PA/Seton LaSalle) currently stand two hits away from 100 career hits
* Slate is second in the AMCC and first on the team with a .422 batting average, while Gibson leads the conference with 41 RBIs and has hit a team-high four home runs
* Silvio Ionadi (Pittsburgh, PA/Plum) sits second on the team and third in the AMCC with a .417 average
* On the mound, Jake Manendo has registered a 0.96 ERA in eight appearances. Zick has delivered a conference-high five wins in seven starts
* Freshman Colin Bolla (Fairview, PA/Fairview) leads the Lions with 37 strikeouts in 27.2 innings pitched
* As a team, Behrend leads the AMCC in average (.344), on-base percentage (.433), slugging (.499), RBIs (266), home runs (19), triples (17), hits (376), and runs (307)

Meet the Opposition:

* Greensburg holds a 10-23 overall record and a 5-9 record in AMCC play, falling to Fredonia in a doubleheader last Sunday
* Sophomore James Domer is first in the AMCC with six home runs and 52 hits, while also leading the team in batting average (.403)
* Fellow sophomore Colin Solinski is third in the conference in RBIs (33) and home runs (four)
* On the mound, starters Calvin Bernard and Matt Mazzara lead the Bobcats with two wins apiece. Conner Burkey has struck out a team-high 32 batters in 37.1 innings
* Domer and Ben Aftanas were All-AMCC First Team selections a season ago, while Solinski notched Third Team honors
* The Bobcats were projected to finish sixth in the 2024 AMCC Baseball Preseason Coaches' Poll
* Head coach Scott Adams is in his eighth season as the leader of the baseball program

Series History:

* Behrend leads the all-time series 53-16, dating back to 1998
* The Lions and Bobcats have split doubleheaders the past two seasons