Back With Brooms

Penn State DuBois baseball had their hands full with Greater Allegheny this weekend.  After splitting with them on the road in a double header, DuBois came back home on Sunday to host them in a double header.

Game one start went to Trevor Hanna, who has not lost a game yet this year from the mound.  Greater Allegheny scored first in the 2^nd inning, and 1 in the 5^th.  DuBois would grab 1 run in the 4^th off of a 2 out double from Daniel Stauffer that scored Cory Lehman after he earned a walk to get on base.

DuBois would score another run to tie the game in the 5^th with a single from Toner Corl that would score Thayne Morgan.  The game would stay tied after 7 to force an extra inning.  With the bases loaded in the bottom of the 8^th, and Trevor Hanna at bat, the Greater Allegheny pitcher balked.  That would advance the runners, and score Jake Allen to win the game, 3-2 with a walk off balk.

Hanna finished the game with 5 strikeouts, and allowing only 2 runs.  Samuel Cheng would come in to relieve Hanna for 1 and 1/3 innings, giving up only 1 hit.  Daniel Stauffer would come in to finish the game, allowing only 1 hit in 1 and 2/3 innings.

Stauffer would have the only extra base hit of the game, and both Stauffer and Zane Morgan would go 2 for 3 in game one.  Thayne Morgan would add 2 stolen bases.

Game two was time for Braiden Blair to get the start from the mound.  Greater Allegheny would again score first in the top of the 2^nd inning with a pair of runs to go up, 2-0.  It would take DUBois until the bottom of the 6^th to get a run across the plate thanks to a pair of doubles by Lehman and Stauffer. 

DuBois was down 2-1 headed into the bottom of the 7^th.  Brett Beith would get safely on first with a single before Zane Morgan would ground out, but advance Beith over to third base.  Hanna would come up big with the tying RBI single to score Beith to make it 2-2.

Greater Allegheny then intentionally walked Corl.  Joey Dipietro would come up with a big single to load the bases for Lehman.  Lehman would hit into a fielder's choice, but bases would still be loaded with 2 outs.  Stauffer would come to the plate to try to seal the game for DuBois, and with a walk off balk in the first game, everyone was ready to see the exciting finish from game 2. 

Par for the day, it wouldn't be a walk off home run today, but a walk off hit by pitch that would score the winning run for DuBois.  DuBois would narrowly sweep the day, winning game 2, 3-2.

Blair pitched a complete game, giving up only 5 hits and striking out 6.  Beith went 2 for 3 from the plate, and Stauffer had 2 RBI's on the game.