Lions Extend Win Streak To Eight Games With Combined 29 Hits
The Penn State Behrend baseball team extended its winning streak to eight straight games with a doubleheader sweep at La Roche Sunday.
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Penn State Behrend
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0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 15 | 3 |
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La Roche
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0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Penn State Behrend
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0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 14 | 3 |
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La Roche
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 5 |
PITTSBURGH, Pa. – The Penn State Behrend baseball team extended its winning streak to eight straight games with a doubleheader sweep at La Roche Sunday.
Game One: Penn State Behrend 9, La Roche 4
Records: Penn State Behrend (15-6, 5-0 AMCC), La Roche (9-19, 3-6 AMCC)
Key Moments:
* The Redhawks took a 1-0 in the bottom of the second on a Behrend miscue in the outfield
* The Lions grabbed the lead (4-1) with four runs on five hits in the top of the third
* Dylan Barnes (Pittsburgh, PA/North Hills), Daniel Boehme (Peters Township, PA/Seton LaSalle), and Tyler Burick (Erie, PA/Harbor Creek) each delivered RBIs in the inning
* La Roche knotted the score at four apiece with an RBI single from Tanner Schmitt
* A Boehme two-out RBI single in the top of the fourth gave Behrend the lead once again (5-4)
* The Lions extended their lead in the sixth and seventh innings, scoring four runs on wild pitches and singles from Burick and Cayden Turner (Stoystown, PA/North Star)
* Behrend starter Colin Bolla (Fairview, PA/Fairview) earned his fourth win of the season with five innings to go along with three earned runs and five strikeouts
* Reliever Joe Lang (Pittsburgh, PA/North Allegheny) threw two scoreless and hitless innings with three strikeouts to help claim the game one victory
* Burick and Silvio Ionadi (Pittsburgh, PA/Plum) each recorded a game-high three hits, while Burick drove in four runners
* For La Roche, Dimitri Gary went 2-for-3 in game one
Game Two: Penn State Behrend 11, La Roche 3
Records: Penn State Behrend (16-6, 6-0 AMCC), La Roche (9-20, 3-7 AMCC)
Key Moments:
* Game two starter Andrew Bredel (Clinton, PA/Burgettstown) worked out of a bases loaded no-out jam in the bottom of the first with a pair of strikeouts and a foul out
* Behrend scored a combined seven runs in the second and third innings
* The big blows in those innings were RBI singles from Ionadi, Mac Ciocco (Venetia, PA/Peters Township), and Adam Cooper (State College, PA/State College)
* Burick tallied a run batted in and a run scored in the top of the sixth to extend Behrend's lead to 9-0
* An RBI single by Josh Dreyer gave the Redhawks their first run of game two in the bottom half of the sixth
* The 10th run of the contest came courtesy of an RBI single in the top of the seventh from Ionadi
* La Roche plated two runs in the bottom of the seventh with runs batted in off the bat of Larry Bielawski and Danny McCaffrey
* Sophomore Hank Shaffer (Saegertown, PA/Saegertown) drove in Boehme for the Lions 11th run of the game
* Out of the bullpen, Jack Baumgartel (Sewickley, PA/North Allegheny) and Ethan Tinker (Pittsburgh, PA/Avonworth) pitched scoreless eighth and ninth innings to secure the doubleheader sweep and 16th win of the season
* Bredel tossed six innings, only allowing one earned run with five strikeouts en route to his fifth victory of the year on the mound
* Every Lion to take an at-bat registered at least one hit with four players notching multiple hits
* Ionadi had a game-high three runs batted in
* Bielawski led the Redhawks with two hits
Up next:
* Behrend will play a single non-conference contest against Fredonia on Tuesday, April 15. First pitch is slated for 4 p.m.