ASTON (Pa.) – The Delaware Valley University baseball team cruised to a doubleheader sweep at Maple Zone Sports Complex over non-conference foe the University of Valley Forge, posting wins of 9-0 and 8-3.
The Aggies improved to 14-20 overall while the Patriots fell to 6-21.
First-year Gage Ambruster got the start in game one and held the home team to just one hit through four innings while the offense opened up an 8-0 lead.
Garrett Zimmerman and Jonathan Drews picked up RBIs in the first inning and Reece Hackett plated Shawne Eldridge in the second. Drews and Hackett picked up another RBI each in the third before Timmy Lallis drove home two with a bases loaded single.
Zimmerman led the team at the dish with a 3-for-5 effort, an RBI and a run scored as the Aggies racked up 10 hits and seven walks as a team.
Ambruster finished with 4.2 innings pitched, seven strikeouts, two walks, and two hits allowed. Ethan Saxe pitched one and a third frames and allowed one hit while Ryan Zimmerman pitched the seventh and struck out two of the three batters he faced.
Lallis got game two started with a lead off single and came around to score on a two-out RBI single by Eldridge to give DelVal a 1-0 lead.
Reggie Washington answered for the Patriots the next half inning with a lead off single of his own and later came around to score after a couple stolen bases.
Kenny Tunison put the Aggies back in front with his team-leading fourth home run of the season with one out in the third. DelVal's lead grew to 4-1 in the fourth thanks to an RBI single from Lallis who later came around to score on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Hank Bielen.
Jared Sterner delivered a sacrifice fly in the fifth that plated Eldridge and the Aggies added three more in the seventh thanks to a bases loaded double by Jonathan Drews and a sacrifice fly from Eldridge.
John Slover pitched five innings in the win and struck out four batters with two earned runs allowed on five hits. Drews, Eldridge, Lallis, and Tunison had two hits apiece and combined for six RBI and five runs scored.
Colin Orndorff led the Patriots with a 3-for-4 effort and two RBI.