FLEMINGTON, N.J. - In its return north on Sunday, Eastern Baseball played Muhlenberg College to a doubleheader split on a beautiful afternoon at Diamond Nation. The Eagles blew a two-run, seventh inning lead to fall in game one, 6-5, before roaring back with a 9-0 triumph in game two. Sophomore Thomas Kozlusky, along with first-years Robert Del Buono and Matthew Gonglik, each had strong showings, combining for eight hits, seven runs scored, two home runs, and seven RBIs.

Kozlusky, who hails from Quakertown, led off game two with a double to left center, and Del Buono followed with a walk. Eastern tried to execute a double steal, and while Del Buono was caught at second, Kozlusky touched home to give the Eagles a 1-0 lead.

In the third, after a Connor Schilling and Kozlusky's second double of the game, Del Buono, who is off to an excellent start in his Eastern career, scored Schilling on a fielders choice to push the Eagles' advantage to 2-0.

Eastern's offense continued to hum in the fourth and fifth frames. Logan Klember led off the fourth with a double, before scoring on a Muhlenberg fielding error. After a successful sacrifice bunt from Jason Hall moved Luke Meehan to third, Gonglik crushed his first career home run over the left field to increase the Eagles' lead to 5-0.

The Eagles added four more insurance runs in the fifth, beginning with a Justin DiCesare two-run single to center field. Hall scored DiCesare on an infield single, and Gonglik recorded his third RBI of the day on a single down the third base to make it a 9-0 Eastern lead.

With the offense giving him all kinds of support, senior Sean Cottrell (2-1) did his part on the bump. The Glassboro, N.J. pitched six shutout innings, giving up just five hits. Additionally, Cottrell struck out eight batters, one off his career-high, on 81 pitches. First-year Dylan Labukas recorded the last three outs, two coming via the strikeout. Kozlusky and Gonglik each finished two-for-four at the plate with three extra base hits.

The Eagles grabbed an early lead in the opener as Del Buono scored on a balk in the first inning.  Muhlenberg tied it up in its half of the third, but the Eagles responded in the bottom half. Schilling began the inning with a single to right field and Kozlusky laid down a perfect sacrifice bunt, before Del Buono hit an infield single to score Schilling and put the Eagles ahead 2-1.

Kozlusky, like Gonglik in game two, hit his first career home run in the fifth, crushing a moon shot to deep left field to put the Eagles ahead 3-1. However, the game unraveled in the ninth. Muhlenberg (1-3), who recorded just four hits and one run in the first six innings, scored five runs on five hits in the seventh, including a three-run shot, to turn its two-run deficit into a three-run lead. Eastern pushed back, scoring runs on a Del Buono RBI triple and an Evan Barks RBI infield single, but could not score the tying run.

Del Buono and Barks each finished with a pair of hits and combined for two runs scored and three RBI, while Kozlusky and Schilling each finished with one.

Eastern (5-3) will be back on the road Tuesday for a single contest against Haverford College. First pitch is scheduled for 3:00 pm.