Rain-outs early in the week forced the Eastern University baseball team to play four nine inning games in two days this weekend. Seventeen hours after clearing the field following yesterday's doubleheader against Delaware Valley, Eastern lefty Paul Sinclair delivered the first pitch to an Alvernia batter. The Eagles battled through game one before falling 11-6, and after nearly seven hours of baseball dropped the nightcap 19-11. 

Sinclair put together a solid five and two thirds in the opener, and the Eagles jumped to a 4-0 lead after three innings. After a 1-2-3 top of the inning, Scott Renauro doubled to lead off the Eastern half. Bill Brim moved the runner over with a sacrifice, and Andrew Reynolds drove home home Renauro with a double. 

The Eagles picked up a pair of runs in the second. Phil Clark pounded a home run to left to lead off the inning and the Eagles picked up another run on a bases loaded walk. Eastern stretched their lead back to 4-0 with an unearned run in the third. Alvernia rallied for a pair in the top of the fourth, and the visitors tied the game with two more in the fifth.

Clark ignited a rally to put the Eagles back up one with a lead-off double in the bottom of the fifth, but the Crusaders touched scored three in the top of the sixth to take the lead for good. "Paul kept us in the game, " Eastern skipper Matt Midkiff remarked, "we needed him to get through innings, and he did a real nice job against a team that hits it pretty well."

Alvernia extended their lead to 10-6 with three more in the eighth against the weary Eastern bullpen and held on to win 11-6. Clark ended the day with two hits and a pair of RBI, and Reynolds also drove in a pair. 

The Crusaders got to Reynolds, who had played 27 innings in the infield prior to his start, early and pounded out 15 hits against the depleted Eastern staff in the second game. Ryan Polk drove in four runs and Jim Crowley knocked in three in a game that fell apart when the Crusaders broke open an 8-4 game with a seven run fifth.

The Eagles will travel to Dover for a single game against Wesley on Monday.

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