AMBLER (Pa.) – The Delaware Valley University baseball team earned a doubleheader split at Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Freedom foe Arcadia University as it battled to a 6-5 win in the opener before dropping a 9-2 decision in the night cap.
The Aggies (3-19) got out to a quick start in the opener as they got runners to second and third with one out in the top of the first. Clean-up hitter Hank Bielen drove in the opening run, Vinny Colavitti laced an RBI single, and Garrett Zimmerman followed with a double to plate Colavitti and put DelVal ahead, 3-0.
The Knights (15-9) fired right back with three runs on two hits in their half of the first to knot the game at 3-3. Connor Cheeseman and Joseph Kumar had the RBI base knocks.
The Green and Gold regained the lead with one run in the third and one in the fourth thanks to RBI singles from Zimmerman and Lallis. In the bottom of the sixth, Lallis drove in Evan Scally for the third time in the contest to give the Aggies a 6-3 lead heading into the seventh.
Tyler Moody relieved starting pitcher Ethan Saxe for the bottom of the seventh and got two outs, but Arcadia put two runs on the board and loaded the bases down just one, 6-5. Ryan Georgiadis came on to secure the final out and got Gregory Hamrick to hit a ground ball back to the mound to end the game and get DelVal back in the win column.
Bielen, Colavitti, and Lallis each managed two hits with Lallis picking up two RBI. Zimmerman finished with a 3-for-3 effort at the dish, a walk, and two runs batted in. Saxe earned the win with six innings of work, six strikeouts, and three earned runs allowed. DelVal outhit Arcadia, 13-6 in the game, and the Knights starting pitcher, Hunter Bogumil, suffered the loss with six hits against and just one strikeout.
In game two, neither team managed a run until the Aggies broke the game open with a two-out RBI single from Bielen to score Bobby Bright.
Arcadia responded with two runs on three hits in the bottom of the frame and did the same in the fourth to extend its lead to 4-2. DelVal was held to just three hits the rest of the way and the Knights added one in the fifth and put up four in the sixth for the comfortable 9-2 win.
Jonathan Drews led the team with a 2-for-3 effort and one RBI in the nightcap and six other Aggies registered a hit. Zimmerman got the start on the mound and went five innings with nine hits allowed, five earned runs, and three strikeouts.