Behrend Trumps Fredonia for I-90 Cup; Ciocco Claims 150 Career Hits
The Penn State Behrend baseball team remains in possession of the Interstate 90 (I-90) Cup after a convincing, 15-5, win over Fredonia Wednesday.
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
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Fredonia
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0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 4 |
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Penn State Behrend
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2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | X | 15 | 13 | 1 |
ERIE, Pa. – The Penn State Behrend baseball team remains in possession of the Interstate 90 (I-90) Cup after a convincing, 15-5, win over Fredonia Wednesday.
Score: Penn State Behrend 15, Fredonia 5
Records: Penn State Behrend (17-6), Fredonia (9-12)
Key Moments:
* This victory pushes the Lions winning streak to nine straight games
* Behrend loaded the bases in the bottom of the first on a trio of Blue Devil errors
* A Daniel Boehme (Peters Township, PA/Seton LaSalle) sacrifice fly and Thomas Nicely (Delmont, PA/Franklin Regional) RBI single pushed across two of the three runners on base
* Fredonia responded with three runs in the second and one in the third to take a 4-2 advantage
* The Lions retook the lead and broke the game open with an eight-run bottom of the third
* A pair of RBI walks from Tyler Burick (Erie, PA/Harbor Creek) and Hank Shaffer (Saegertown, PA/Saegertown) started the scoring in the bottom half of the inning
* Those walks were followed by a Dylan Barnes (Pittsburgh, PA/North Hills) bases clearing triple, a Silvio Ionadi (Pittsburgh, PA/Plum) RBI double, and then capped off by an RBI triple from Mac Ciocco (Venetia, PA/Peters Township)
* Ciocco's triple marked his 150th career hit
* In the next inning, Barnes tallied another RBI triple to bring Behrend's lead to 12-4
* The Lions tacked on two more runs in the sixth and one more run in the seventh to secure their 17th win of the season
* Starter Evan Bromley ( Bethel Park, PA/Bethel Park) earned his fourth win of the year, tossing six innings to go along with four runs and four strikeouts
* Junior Sawyer Prince (Shinglehouse, PA/Port Allegany) threw a scoreless ninth inning out of the Behrend bullpen
* 11 different Lions reached base at least once during Wednesday's contest
* Barnes finished 3-for-6 at the plate with a game-high four runs batted in, while Ciocco and Boehme each registered two hits
* For the Blue Devils, Tucker Schwab finished 2-for-4 with an RBI
Up next:
* Behrend heads to Thiel for a single non-conference contest tomorrow. First pitch is set for 2 p.m.