ERIE, Pa. -- The 25th-ranked Mercyhurst baseball team swept non-conference doubleheader Glenville State, 4-1 and 5-1, at the Mercyhurst Baseball Field on Sunday.
Individual game recaps below:
Game One: Lakers 4, Glenville State 1Daniel Elliott batted 3-for-3 with a home run, double and three RBI for the Lakers, who scored twice in the first and led the rest of the way.
Drew Borowski added a 2-for-3 game and
Hank Morrison doubled.
Winning pitcher
Joe Gnacinski threw 4 2/3 innings of shutout ball. He gave up three hits while recording four strikeouts and one walk.
Jamie Lauria pitched a scoreless seventh inning, striking out two batters, to earn a save.
Morrison had an RBI groundout and Elliott ripped an RBI double in the Lakers' first inning. Elliott homered in the third and had an RBI single in the fifth, pushing the Mercyhurst advantage to 4-0.
Glenville State scored its only run in the sixth on an RBI single by Lance Gilbert.
Wesley Stauffer was the losing pitcher, giving up four runs on 10 hits. He pitched all six defensive innings for GSU and finished with four strikeouts and three walks.
Game Two: Lakers 5, Glenville State 1Chris Gonzalez homered and winning pitcher
Cam Knott worked five innings, giving up one run on three hits while recording seven strikeouts and one walk.
Morrison had a 2-for-3 game, including a triple, while
Jimmy Latona collected two RBI and a stolen base. Gonzalez scored twice and also stole a base.
Glenville took a 1-0 lead in the second on Christian Hedinger's RBI double before Mercyhurst scored the game's last five runs.
Latona had a two-run single in the Laker second and scored on an error later in the inning. Gonzalez provided the game's final runs on a two-run dinger in the third.
Andrew Ciolli and
Jake Hall pitched scoreless frames in the sixth and seventh, respectively, with Hall striking out the side to end the game.
Brady Wilkinson was the losing pitcher for Glenville State (1-13). He lasted only two innings before reliever Justin Oney pitched four scoreless innings.
GSU's only three hits were doubles by Hedinger, Gilbert and Zach Sanford.
Mercyhurst (9-3) will be in action next when it visits Notre Dame (Ohio) for a four-game series on Mar. 12-13.
