LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – The Lock Haven baseball team (18-18, 6-12 PSAC East) dropped a pair of extra-inning games today to visiting Mansfield (12-25, 3-15 PSAC East) in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division action.
Mansfield won game one, 3-2 in nine innings and the Mounties won game two, 6-5 in eight innings.
Between games today, Lock Haven head coach
Heath Stover and the Bald Eagles honored the graduating seniors:
Gavin Troutman (Boyertown, Pa./Oley Valley),
Blaise Zeiders (Selinsgrove, Pa./Selinsgrove),
Andrew Ramirez (Lewisburg, Pa./Lewisburg),
Joe Shannon (Warminster, Pa./William Tennent (Mercer CC)),
Camden Moors (Johnstown, Pa./Westmont),
David Keller (Oreland, Pa/Christopher Dock Mennonite),
RJ Kruse (Milford, Pa./ Delaware Valley (Lackawanna)),
Garrett Nepert (Preston, Md./Colonel Richardson (Chesapeake County CC)),
Brendan Jordan (Langhorne, Pa./Neshaminy (Bucks County CC)),
Zach Kaatz (Stafford, Va./Mountain View),
Justin Lichtenwalner (Lancaster, Pa./Hempfield) and student-assistant
Brandon Lingenfelter.
Game 1 Recap: Mansfield 3 - Lock Haven 2 (9 innings)
Mansfield edged out Lock Haven 3-2 in a game-one, extra-inning thriller. The Mounties found the game-winning run in the top of the ninth as Lock Haven's ninth-inning rally fell short.
Troutman had two hits in game one, Ramirez had a double, and both Nepert and Shannon drove in runs.
Shannon put Lock Haven up 1-0 in the first inning on an RBI-single. Nepert's sacrifice-fly in the seventh tied the game at 2-2.
Game 2 Recap: Mansfield 6 – Lock Haven 5 (8 innings)
Mansfield completed the sweep with a second straight extra-inning win.
Brendan Jordan (Langhorne, Pa./Neshaminy (Bucks County CC)) homered in game two and Troutman had a triple. Troutman finished game two with three total hits and three RBIs, and
Francisco Taveras (Muhlenberg, Pa./Muhlenberg (Lehigh Carbon CC)) had two hits.
Trailing 5-3, Jordan's solo homer in the sixth cut into the Mansfield lead at 5-4. In the bottom of the seventh, Nepert doubled in the tying run to force extras.
A Marcus Nales home run in the eighth proved to be the difference for Mansfield.
Up Next for Lock Haven:
The Bald Eagles will host Shepherd University on Friday, April 28 at 2 p.m. in PSAC East action.