favorite Alvernia over .500 in the PAC and playing mistake-free baseball behind solid pitching. The young Eastern squad had been in every league game and had legitimate chances to win. Today was not such a day. The visiting Crusaders began game one hitting the ball, and continued to make solid contact throughout the day en route to a pair of lopsided wins.

Alvernia pounded out 22 hits including a pair of home runs on the way to a 25-1 opening win. Zach Lutz led the way for the Crusaders with 3 hits and 3 RBI in the openerwhile allowing only a single hit in five innings of shutout ball.

In game two, sophomore Andrew Reynolds was able to keep the Crusaders a little bit more off balance, but the visitors still pounded out 11 hits against the right-hander. Alvernia scored 11 runs in the first six innings and pounded out another 5 in the seventh to push the score to 16-3. The Eagles got RBI from John Montague and Sean Ciletti in the loss.

Eastern will travel to Alvernia tomorrow for the final game of the three game set before taking on Marywood in a three game series on the weekend.