LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – The Lock Haven University baseball team (7-21, 7-21 PSAC East) closed the 2021 regular season today at home by hosting perennial conference power West Chester University (21-10, 21-10 PSAC East) in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division doubleheader-action.
 
Today marked the Bald Eagles 2021 Senior Day and between games, LHU honored its graduating seniors: Mike O'Halloran (Monmouth Beach, N.J./Shore Regional), Reagan Lawlor (McMurray, Pa./Peters Township), Austin Gilpin (Newfoundland, Pa./Wallenpaupack), Kyler Mellott (Bellefonte, Pa./Bellefonte), Scott Leitholf (Dillsburg, Pa./Northern York), Joey Lowen (Pittsburgh/Mount Lebanon), Isaac Porter (Beech Creek, Pa./Central Mountain), Santino Nave (Philadelphia/Roman Catholic) and Brandon Miller (Lock Haven, Pa./Central Mountain).
 
Game 1: West Chester 4 – Lock Haven 3

WCU took game one 4-3 in a tightly-contest game that saw the visitors rally late.
 
Garrett Nepert (Preston, Md./Chesapeake County C.C.) broke up Joe Sperone's bid for a no-hitter in dramatic fashion as he blasted an opposite-field three-run home run. Sperone was perfect through four innings, but he walked a pair of Bald Eagles in the bottom of the fifth. With two outs and a pair of runners on in the bottom half of the fifth, Nepert connected and drilled a ball over the right-field fence.
 
The homer put Lock Haven up 3-2 after five.
 
West Chester responded in the top of the sixth and tied the game at 1-1 and in the top of the seventh, the visitors pushed the eventual game-winning run across the plate.
 
On the mound in game one was Mellott – a senior – who finished with three strikeouts.
 
Game 2: West Chester 12 – Lock Haven 8
 
West Chester jumped out to a 2-0 lead on a two run homerun in the second inning.
 
 Gavin Troutman (Oley Valley, Pa./Catholic Oley Valley) and Justin Lichtenwalner (Landisville, Pa./Hempfield) each produced a run from RBI singles. Jake Mastillo (Moscow, Pa./North Pocono) plated the third run of the inning on a sacrifice fly.
 
The Golden Rams got the offense going in the fourth inning scoring seven runs on their way to a 12-8 victory.
 
Mastillo did all he could to get the Bald Eagles back in with two home runs in back to back at bats. Both of the home runs were two run shots. Mastillo finished the day with five RBI's for the Haven.
 
Gilpin, who is normally on the mound for Lock Haven, pinch hit in the bottom of the seventh inning collecting his first hit and stolen base in a Lock Haven uniform.