WILKES-BARRE (Pa.) – The Delaware Valley University baseball team visited King's College for a Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Freedom doubleheader on Saturday afternoon and came out on the losing ends of a pair of pitching duals. The Monarchs won game one, 7-1, and took the night cap, 1-0.

The Aggies (6-17, 2-9 MAC FREEDOM) gave the ball to Troy Lachenmayer to start the opener and he allowed just two hits through the first two frames. His team gave him a 1-0 lead in the third as Neal Flogel led off with a single, Joey Lodato moved him over, and Tom Crooks drove him in with a base hit up the middle.  

King's (10-12, 7-4 MAC FREEDOM) responded in the bottom of the third with three runs on four hits including a two-out RBI double by Dan Harston and an RBI single to left field from Matt Mellinger that made it 3-1.

The Monarchs added two runs in the fifth and two more in the sixth and the Aggies registered just one hit over the final four innings for the 7-1 final.

Lachenmayer went the distance and allowed 10 hits and four earned runs with one walk and three punchouts. Crooks, Flogel, and Zackary Zgura each had a hit.

King's starting pitcher, Colby Toth, allowed just three hits and did not walk any batters while striking out four in the complete game victory. Matt Dobeck was 2-for-3 with two runs scored and Dan Hartson was 2-for-3 with two RBIs and a runs scored.   

In the second game, Cody Brown took to the mound and held the Monarchs to just five hits with one walk for one run against, but suffered the loss as the Aggies were shutout and had five hits in their favor against Harston who allowed no walks and struck out five.

King's run came in the first inning as Christian Pack hit a one-out double and Mellinger drove him home with a single up the middle. Brown held the Monarchs to just three hits over the final five innings as he pitched to 12 fly ball outs, four ground outs, and two strikeouts in the game.

DelVal had its chances to get on the board in the sixth and seventh innings but stranded three runners in scoring position, two at third base. In the sixth, Timmy Lallis got aboard on an error and Tom Crooks legged out a bunt single. They were moved over on a bunt by Lachenmayer, but the next two batters popped up to end the threat. Neal Flogel hit a one-out double in the seventh, and moved to third on a ground out to put the tying run 90 feet away with two outs. Harston locked in and got his fifth strike out of the game to preserve the 1-0 shutout.

The two teams will wrap-up the season series with a nine inning contest tomorrow in Doylestown at 1 p.m.