Baseball | 3/26/2018 6:20:00 PM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2

    WEST LIBERTY, W.Va. – The West Liberty University baseball team clubbed four home runs in the second game to split a Mountain East Conference doubleheader with Glenville State Monday afternoon at Kovalick Field.
    Coach Eric Burkle's Hilltoppers (6-9, 4-4) dropped a heartbreaking 3-2 decision in the opener before breaking out the long ball to hand the Pioneers (7-14, 4-4) a 7-1 loss in the finale.
    West Liberty scored in every inning but the second in the second game with Bub Haddox leading the offensive explosion. Haddox hammered a pair of solo home runs and added a run-scoring double to finish with three hits and three RBIs.
    Justice Jackson and Ethan Estes also went deep for the Black and Gold while Coby Eckstein added a pair of singles in the 10-hit barrage. Mitchell Viakley got the win on the mound, holding Glenville to just one run over the first six innings.
    In the first game, Parker Dyson held Glenville State to just two hits but the visitors made the most of them. The Pioneers worked three straight walks with two out in the top of the fifth and Jordan Braniff ripped a bases-clearing double to account for all three of Glenville's runs.
    West Liberty pushed a pair of unearned runs across in the bottom of the frame and threatened again in the bottom of the seventh only to have the potential tying run thrown out at the plate.
    Hunter Westlake singled twice to account for two of WLU's five hits in the game. Dyson finished with nine strikeouts and six walks to take the hard-luck loss.
    The Hilltoppers hit the road on Friday with a 1 p.m. doubleheader at West Virginia State.
  Glenville State                           000 030 0 - 3  2  1
West Liberty                               000 020 0 - 2  5  1
     GSC: Wilkinson wp (6SO, 2W), Stauffer (6) (0SO, 2W), Rodriguez (7) (0SO, 2W) and Phillips. Jo.Braniff D, 3rbi
     WLU: Dyson lp (9SO, 6W) and Davis. Westlake 2S
  Glenville State                           000 001 0 - 1    4  1
West Liberty                               101 113 x - 7  10  1
     GSC: Finnemore lp (4SO, 1W), Ja.Braniff (4) (2SO, 1W) and Jo.Braniff. Hedinger S, rbi; Peloro D; Bayliss D
     WLU: Viakley wp (1SO, 3W), V.Haddox (7) (2SO, 2W) and Davis. V.Haddox 2HR, D, 3rbi; Eckstein 2S; Jackson HR, rbi; Estes HR, rbi