Yergey_Miiller split
3
Penn State Berks PSBM 1-12
15
Winner Lancaster Bible LBCM 6-7
Penn State Berks PSBM
1-12
3
Final
15
Lancaster Bible LBCM
6-7
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Penn State Berks PSBM 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 9 6
Lancaster Bible LBCM 4 0 1 4 3 3 X 15 20 0

W: Jacob Stong (1-2) L: Laudenslager, Alex (0-3)

9
Winner Penn State Berks PSBM 2-12
8
Lancaster Bible LBCM 6-8
Winner
Penn State Berks PSBM
2-12
9
Final
8
Lancaster Bible LBCM
6-8
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Penn State Berks PSBM 5 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 9 13 5
Lancaster Bible LBCM 2 0 0 3 1 2 0 0 0 8 6 2

W: Miiller, Josh (1-1) L: Trevor High (2-3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Late heroics lead to split with LBC

LANCASTER, PA - The Penn State Berks baseball team needed some late heroics in all facets of the game to help salvage a split with Lancaster Bible College in a NEAC doubleheader on Wednesday afternoon. The Nittany Lions dropped the opener, but in the final inning Tate Yergey homered, Nick Esz robbed a homer, and Josh Miiller shut down the Chargers for a 9-8 Berks victory.

In the opener, Bryce Stout went 3-for-4 with a home run, three RBI, and a run scored, while Pat Maloney finished 2-for-4 with a double and run scored. Joe Gramignano recorded a pair of hits, including a double, Jay Pettit was 1-for-4 with an RBI. Josh Hernandez also recorded a hit in the game.

The Nittany Lions came out in game two with Maloney drawing a walk and singles by Hernandez and Stout to load the bases. Eric Gale singled to right center to bring in Maloney Pettit followed with a grand slam to center field to put the Nittany Lions ahead 5-0 in the early going. The Chargers plated two runs in the bottom of the first, but Gale homered to center in the third to put Berks up 6-2. LBC clawed back to 6-5 in the fourth, but Gramignano lined a single off the pitcher to score Yergey, who led off the inning with a double.

The Chargers scored once in the fifth and added another two in the sixth to take an 8-7 lead. In the top of the seventh, Yergey walked, Pettit singled and Gramignano walked to load the bases. Zach Kratz narrowly missed out on a grand slam, but it was enough to easily allow Yergey to tag up and score the tying run.

Dale Murphy, who worked out of a jam to finish the sixth, held the Chargers scoreless in the bottom of seventh. Berks went down quietly in the eighth before the Chargers got rally started in the bottom half. The leadoff batter reach on a walk, stole second, and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt. Miiller came in on relief and got a strikeout and a pop up to second to leave the runner stranded at third.

In the top of the ninth, Yergey quickly fell behind 0-2 the Chargers No. 1 starter Trevor High. Yergey turned on an inside fastball and delivered a deep home run well over the short porch in leftfield to send the Nittany Lion bench into a frenzy. Berks would take that one-run lead into the bottom of the ninth inning.

Miiller struck out the first batter looking which brought up leadoff man Brian Coburn, who had been killing the Nittany Lions all day. The freshman shortstop drove a ball deep to the opposite field that had Esz drifting back to the warning track and jumping at the wall. Esz went up and landed on the ground, with no one knowing whether he had the ball or not. After what felt like an hour, Esz stuck his glove up and showed the ball sitting in the pocket for out two. The Nittany Lions were again going wild on the field and in the dugout as they sat one out away from the win. Miiller took care of things on his own struck out the batter to earn his first collegiate victory.

Pettit finished 4-for-5 with four RBI and a run scored, while Yergey was 2-for-4 with an RBI and three runs scored. Gale went 2-for-5 with two RBI and two runs scored. Hernandez and Stout had a hit and scored a run, Tom Hegedus tallied one hit.

The Nittany Lions will host Wells College for a NEAC doubleheader on Saturday, April 24 at 12 p.m.


 
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