HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. -- Jimmy Latona homered during both ends of a doubleheader -- the second time in walk-off fashion -- as the Mercyhurst baseball team claimed a two-game sweep of Post in non-conference action on Saturday. The Lakers won, 4-1 and 9-8.

Individual recaps below:

Game One
Lakers 4, Post 1
Winning pitcher Matthew Minnick pitched all seven innings, allowing one run on four hits while recording six strikeouts and two walks in the win for Mercyhurst. The Laker offense was limited to five hits, but three of those knocks were key extra-base hits.

With Mercyhurst batting as the home team, Latona led off the Laker first inning with a home run. Elliott ripped an RBI triple later in the frame and scored on an error during the same play as MU grabbed an early 3-0 edge.

After Post scored once in the fifth inning, Balego got that insurance space back for Mercyhurst with a solo home run in the sixth to account for the game's final run. Balego scored twice for the Lakers.

Game Two
Lakers 9, Post 8
After falling behind 4-0 in the opening inning, Mercyhurst chipped away to take a lead in the middle innings before ending the game on a come-from-behind, two-run bomb by Latona in the seventh.

Latona finished 3-for-3 with two runs scored. Collin Fantaskey went 3-for-4 with two runs and two RBI while Matthew Schneider contributed a 2-for-3 game with one RBI.

Also for the Laker offense, Balego and Drew Delsignore scored two runs apiece. Delsignore homered and drove in two runs while Dan Popio contributed a double.

Russell Lamovec got the start on the hill for Mercyhurst (4-1). In five innings of work, he gave up four runs on five hits while tallying six strikeouts and three walks. He left the game with the lead before a late Post comeback.

A home run by Delsignore got the Lakers on the board in the second before Fantaskey came through with a two-out, two run single in the third. The Lakers had trimmed their deficit to 4-3.

Then, in the fourth, Elliott tied the game with an RBI single. Delsignore followed with an RBI via fielder's choice before Schneider smacked a two-out RBI single, building a 6-4 Mercyhurst lead.

The Lakers pushed across their seventh run in the fifth frame on a double-play groundout.

A defensive gaffe by the Lakers in the sixth aided a three-run inning by Post, tying the contest at 7-7.

Post went ahead for the final time in the seventh, taking an 8-7 lead, and set the stage for Latona's heroics.

Fantaskey led the MU seventh off with a single and, two batters later, Latona connected for his second round-tripper of the day.

Laker relief pitcher Jamie Lauria, who inherited two runners with two outs in the seventh, recorded an inning-ending strikeout. He was the winning pitcher.

The two teams will meet again on Sunday for a single game, beginning at 10 a.m.