Baseball | 3/19/2014 9:46:00 AM
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Box Score 2 GREENSBURG, Pa. – The West Liberty University baseball team dropped both ends of a non-conference doubleheader at Seton Hill on Tuesday, falling by scores of 3-2 and 5-0.
In the first game, Coach
Eric Burkle's Hilltoppers (11-6) fell behind early when the host Griffins (11-8) jumped out to a 3-0 lead after the first two innings.
Four innings of shutout relief from
Anthony Bond gave West Liberty a chance to scratch its way back into the game. The visitors pushed across a single tally in the top of the third on a
Jon-Michael Brunner fielder's choice and pulled within a run on
Anthony Pierro's seventh inning sacrifice fly.
West Liberty had the tying run on base following Pierro's sacrifice fly but Jesse Cooper came on in relief for Seton Hill to get the final out.
Mike Johnson had a pair of singles for the Hilltoppers while Brunner had a single and RBI.
Four Seton Hill hurlers combined to hold West Liberty to just three singles in the second game. The Hilltoppers had multiple baserunners in the fifth and seventh frames but couldn't push anybody across the plate.
West Liberty returns to Mountain East Conference action on Saturday when the Hilltoppers host Glenville State in a 1 p.m. doubleheader at Kovalick Field.
BASEBALL
Seton Hill 3, West Liberty 2
West Liberty 001 000 1 - 2 6 0
Seton Hill 120 000 x - 3 7 1
WLU: Knisley lp (1SO, 2W), Bond (3) (2SO, 0W) and Francis. Johnson 2S; Brunner S, rbi; Pierro rbi
SHU: Bittel (0SO, 1W), Urtz (3) (0SO, 0W), Fuller wp (5) (2SO, 1W), Cooper (7) (0SO, 0W) and Fanelli. Herald D, S, rbi; Schmidt 2S, 2rbi
Seton Hill 5, West Liberty 0
West Liberty 000 000 0 - 0 3 3
Seton Hill 210 002 x - 5 8 1
WLU: Heatherington lp (0SO, 2W), Secore (2) (0SO, 0W), Hilt (6) (1SO, 0W) and Francis.
SHU: Schnelle (1SO, 0W), McWreath (3) (2SO, 0W), Haines wp (5) (3SO, 0W), Wright (6) (1SO, 1W) and Fanelli. Herald D, S, rbi; Costantino 2S, rbi
