Gallagher final out vs Keuka
Tyler Schueck
13
Winner Penn St.-Berks PSBM 18-19
1
Penn College PCTM 23-12
Winner
Penn St.-Berks PSBM
18-19
13
Final
1
Penn College PCTM
23-12
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Penn St.-Berks PSBM 1 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 7 13 10 2
Penn College PCTM 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 8

W: Gallagher, Dylan (4-2) L: Max Bair (5-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball tops Penn College, tied with Abington in top of 7

LEWISBURG, PA - The Penn State Berks baseball team opened up the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) Tournament with a 13-1 victory over Penn College and were tied 3-3 with Penn State Abington when the game was halted due to darkness in the top of the seventh inning on Friday afternoon at Depew Field on the campus of Bucknell University.

Dylan Gallagher continued his run of quality efforts on the mound with another complete-game effort against Penn College. The senior right-hander scattered four hits and allowed just one run (unearned), while striking out three batters and issuing two walks. Gallagher allowed two base runners in the first inning, but one was erased from the paths when John McGarvey caught the runner at third trying to steal and the other runner was left stranded on base. Penn College got one runner on base over the first three innings, but they were left on base before the Wildcats broke through with an unearned run in the bottom of the fourth.

The Berks defense turned a double play in the bottom of the fifth and Gallagher retired the next nine batters he faced in order. In the top  ninth inning, the Nittany Lions aided Gallagher with run support as they plated seven runs on five hits and one error to build a comfortable 13-1 lead. Gallagher then worked around a leadoff walk to end the games and send Berks to the semifinal game against Abington.

Toby Welk got Berks on the board with the first run of the game when he singled up the middle to score Cory Fox. Tyler Comport drove in Welk with a single and McGarvey followed with a double to score Comport and extend the Nittany Lions to 3-0 in the fourth. Berks tacked on three more runs in the seventh with a bases loaded walk by Dalton Hughes and back-to-back sacrifice flies by Welk and Zach Reis.

In the seven-run ninth inning, a throwing error by the first baseman allowed Fox and Hughes to score and Welk ended up on third base, who then scored during the next at-bat on a wild pitch. Pearce Harhigh forced in a run with a bases loaded walk, Troy Salerno drove in two runs with a single to center, and Fox finished off the scoring with a sac fly.

Comport finished 2-for-5 with two runs scored, while Hughes was also 2-for-5 and added a run and an RBI. Welk scored two runs and had two RBI, Fox scored a game-high three runs.

In the next game, Abington jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first with a pair of unearned runs. Berks chipped away at that lead with one in the fourth when Welk singled in Fox from third base. Berks knotted the game at 2-all off an error that allowed Fox to score and McGarvey later added an RBI double scoring Hughes to put Berks up 3-2.

Abington evened the score at 3-all in the bottom of the sixth with a sacrifice fly.

The game was then halted due to darkness in the top of the seventh with Welk coming to the plate for Berks. The game will pick up from that point on Saturday, May 13 at 11 a.m.
 
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