*WEATHER/SCHEDULE UPDATE (Thursday, May 11 – 8:30 a.m.): The first game scheduled for today (Thurs., May 11) – Game 5 (East Stroudsburg vs. Slippery Rock) is already in rain a delay and pushed back to a 10:30 a.m. start.
Game 6 (IUP vs. WCU) will start 45 minutes after Game 5, Game 7 (Ship vs. Hurst) will start 45 minutes after 6 and
Game 8 (Lock Haven vs. Seton Hill; originally scheduled for 6:30 p.m. tonight) will start 45 minutes after Game 7).
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Tournament Central
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Four of the Bald Eagles nine hits were home runs and they rode a strong outing from starting pitcher
Mike Anthony (Audubon, Pa./North Hampton Community College) as the Lock Haven University baseball team (32-16) opened the 2017 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Tournament with an 8-5 win over IUP (22-24) today.
Justin Sleigh (DuBois, Pa./DuBois),
Kolby DeHaas (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho/Wenatchee Valley Community College),
Sam Kysor (Port Allegany, Pa./USC Upstate) and
Matt Lahn (Georgetown, ONT./Erie Community College) all homered as the Bald Eagles flexed their offensive muscle in their return to the PSAC Tournament.
Today marked LHU's return to the PSAC Tournament as the Bald Eagles played their first postseason tournament game since 2009. The win was Lock Haven's first since the 2002 tournament.
Tomorrow (Thursday, May 11), the Bald Eagles will play the winner of tonight's Seton Hill – West Chester game.
Anthony got the nod on the mound and senior right-hander was impressive on the way to a workmanlike-win. He recorded eight strikeouts over eight innings.
Lahn had LHU's big bat and finished 3 for 4 at the plate.
IUP took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first, but the Bald Eagle bats quickly went to work.
Sleigh led off the second inning with a solo home run. The homer was the first of four in the game and tied the things at 1-1.
In the third, DeHaas blasted a ball over the left-field fence and the three-run home run gave Lock Haven a 4-1 lead.
Kysor hit a solo homer to right in the sixth, which stretched the LHU lead to 6-2.
Lahn added to the long-ball parade and his two-run home run in the seventh pushed The Haven lead to 8-3.
Despite a pair of runs from IUP in the bottom of the ninth, the four LHU home runs proved to be the biggest difference in the outcome and helped the Bald Eagles cement the tournament-opening win.
Up next:
With the win, Lock Haven moves on in the winner's bracket and will face the winner of tonight's Game 4 - Seton Hill vs. West Chester – tomorrow (Thursday, May 11) at 6:30 p.m.
NCAA Regional Rankings (May 10):
The updated weekly NCAA Regional rankings were released today (May 10) and the Bald Eagles were listed at No. 6. On Sunday (May, 14), the NCAA will release the NCAA Division II Tournament field and the top seven teams from the Atlantic Region at that time (updated/final rankings announced Sunday during selection show) will advance to the NCAA Tournament.
Full Rankings - click here.
