READING, Pa. - Following its 8-3 home win yesterday afternoon, Eastern Baseball completed its season sweep of Albright with a pair of wins at Kelchner Field on Saturday. The Eagles took the opener, 3-2, in extra innings, before ending the day with a 7-4 triumph in game two. With the three-game sweep, the Eagles have a 5-4 record in the MAC Commonwealth and are right in the thick of the playoff chase with four more conference series remaining. 

It took 11 innings in game one, but for the second year in a row, the Eagles (16-7, 5-4) won an extra-inning contest at Kelchner Field. Almost a year ago to the day, Justin DiCesare lifted the Eagles to a 3-2 win with a walkoff single. In game one, it was Trevor Harris who provided the game-winning run on a loaded-bases hit by pitch. Gage Curnane (1-0) earned his first collegiate win after three perfect innings of relief, and Brady Maerz recorded his first collegiate save. 

The aces of both pitchings staffs - Eastern's Brennan Moloughney and Albright's Josh Tudor - went pitch-for-pitch in game one. Moloughney outdueled Tudor, allowing just one run with five strikeouts. Tudor struck out seven, but allowed two runs. 

Eastern struck first in the top of the third. With two outs and a 1-1 count, Luke Meehan hit his third home run of the year over the left field wall to put the Eagles ahead 1-0. Eastern doubled its lead in the fourth on an Robert Del Buono sacrifice fly to center field, scoring Matt McSorley. 

Albright (10-8-1, 3-6) rallied with single runs in each of the sixth and seventh innings. Tommy Lewman singled Michael Avino in the bottom of the sixth, and Thomas Aulisi scored on the bottom of the seventh on a wild pitch and subsequent Eastern fielding error. 

Curnane entered the game in the eighth and was brilliant over the course of the next three innings. The senior pitched a clean eighth and ninth inning, while allowing just one hit, a single, in the 10th, before inducing three straight groundball outs. 

The Eagles showed their patience at the plate in the 11th. McSorley worked an eight-pitch walk, and Del Buono walked on five pitches to put runners on first and second. With two outs, Albright pitcher Wayne Hudson hit both Lane Heuer and Harris to put the Eagles for good. Maerz came into the game in the 11th and pitched a perfect inning to secure the save. Meehan finished 2-for-5 with a run scored and an RBI, while McSorely finished with a hit and a pair of runs scored. Matthew Gonglik, Thomas Kozlusky, Ryan Alfonso, and JJ Matos also recorded knocks for the Eagles.

The Eagles struck first again in game two, this time in the first inning. With two outs, Kozlusky singled to right field, scoring Meehan, before Gonglik scored on a Albright fielding error during the same sequence. After three strong innings from Marcelo Llorente on the bump, the Eagles added to their lead in the fourth on an Alfonso RBI single, again with two outs. 

The Lions pushed back in the bottom of the fourth, scoring a pair of runs on a Luke Filiben sacrifice fly and a Tyler Boccelli RBI single. Llorente stood tall, inducing the inning-ending groundout with runners on the corners to keep the Eagles' lead intact. 

Eastern added three big insurance runs in the top of the sixth. Gonglik scored on another Albright error, Alfonso scored Kozlusky on a groundout, and Leyton Bamesberger scored on a wild pitch to put the Eagles ahead 6-2. McSorely capped off the scoring in the seventh with a sacrifice fly. 

Llorente (2-1) earned his second win of the season, striking out three and allowing just two runs in four innings of work. Peter Mellana, Chris Humphreys, and Landon Petty combined to allow just two runs while striking out four. Alfonso drove in a pair of runs for the Eagles in the win. 

The Eagles will be back home at The Yard on Tuesday for a non-conference showdown with Notre Dame of Maryland. First pitch is set for 3:30 pm.