YORKI
Darryl Mackey
3
Washington College WASHINGT 12-9
8
Winner Eastern EASTERN 13-7
Washington College WASHINGT
12-9
3
Final
8
Eastern EASTERN
13-7
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Washington College WASHINGT 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 3 8 2
Eastern EASTERN 1 0 2 1 0 2 2 0 X 8 10 1

W: Mellana, Peter (1-2) L: Logan Ruga (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Pitching Leads as Baseball Tops Washington College

ST. DAVIDS, Pa.— With solid pitching and a balanced offense, Eastern University Baseball picked up an 8-3 non-league win over the visiting Washington College Shoremen. Trevor Harris and Matt Gonglik each knocked in three runs and Eastern's six pitchers held the visitors' high-powered offense to only three runs and two extra-base hits. Peter Mellana came on in the fifth to pick up his first win of the year.

Eastern starter Zachary Alphonso escaped trouble in the first when he picked off a runner before giving up a two-out double. Alphonso worked around three hits and five walks. In the fifth inning, the first-year from Miami gave up a pair of runs and left with a runner on first. Mellana induced a pop-up on the first pitch he threw and then retired the side on a ground ball up the middle. Ryan Alphonso made the play ranging to his left before flipping the ball to Robert Del Bueno for the final out. 

Eastern opened the scoring on back-to-back one-out doubles in the first inning. Luke Meehan yanked a ball down the third base line and came home on an opposite-field knock from Gonglik. The Eagles tacked on two more in the third inning on a Gonglik ground out anda. Matt McSorely single. Meehan and MadDougall each scored in the inning the duo have each scored 26 runs this year. 

Ryan Alphonso scored on a wild pitch in the fourth to push the Eastern edge to 4-0. 

The Shoremen (12-9) came into the game hitting nearly .340 as a team and scoring over ten runs per game. They turned a lead-off double in the sixth into a run, but Michael Gine got out of the jam.

Ryan Alphonso doubled with one out to lead off the sixth. He came home on a Trevor Harris single. Later in the inning, Gonglik singled to plate McDougall for a 6-3 lead. Harris picked upa. two-RBI single in the seventh for the final advantage, and Dylan Labukas, Owen DeLong, and Connor Viola each threw scoreless innings to close out the game. 

The Eagles (13-7) improved to 10-4 at The Yard. They will host Albright College to open a critical MAC Commonwealth series on Saturday. The Lions (10-5-1) are 3-3 in the league and have a series win over Alvernia. 




 
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