DuBois Sweeps on Senior Night

It's hard to do enough to honor seniors enough from Penn State DuBois baseball when they have given so much for the fans to cheer about over the years.  Tonight at Showers Field the crowd did what they could to give the seniors their proper due, but at the end of the night it was again the seniors who, in their typical fashion gave the crowd even more to cheer about with their unmatched efforts on the field.  For 5 years fans have known that when these seniors are playing together they have proven they are the best in the country. 

Brandon Orsich took the mound tonight for his final regular season home game from the mound, and didn't disappoint.  Visiting Fayette would manage to squeeze 1 run across the plate early to take the lead, DuBois bats would get going hard in the 4^th and 5^th innings.  Brandon Sicheri and senior Frank Stefko would both single to get things going.  Then, with 2 outs, Toner Corl would join Orsich in bidding farewell to his home of Showers Field in regular fashion as belted a double that would score 2 runs, and get the ball rolling for DuBois.

Not to be outdone, Joey Dipietro wanted to do the same on his senior night and drove in Corl with a double of his own.  Senior Zane Morgan would get on with a single, then Toner Falls, also a senior would bring Morgan and Dipietro across the plate with a single as well.  2 more runs would score in the inning thanks to Sicheri, and a double by Luke Salvo as DuBois would take the lead 7-1.

Orsich would continue dealing to keep Fayette at bay, and in the bottom of the 5^th Corl would double again to bring 2 more runs across the plate.  Dipietro would come up and single to get Corl home, and DuBois would get their final runs to take a 10-1 lead.

Senior Josh Sorbera would get the call to catch Orsich in his last inning of work before another senior, Blaise Roush would come in to close out the game from the mound.

Other pitchers receiving recognition who were not available to pitch were David Kozlowski, and Jacob Allen.

Orsich would finish the game with allowing only 3 hits and 1 run through 6 innings, and striking out 4 batters.  Roush would throw 1 scoreless and hitless inning of work.

Corl would end the game with 2 doubles and 4 RBI's. while Dipietro would finish with 2 doubles and 2 RBI's.  Falls had a double and 2 RBI's to help, and Sicheri hit a triple and 2 RBI's.

Morgan Bell strated game two for DuBois, and although gave up 2 runs early on in the 1^st inning, quickly came back around and got in his groove.  In the 3^rd inning Sorbera drew a walk before Cole Breon would smash a triple to score the run.  Brett Beith would hit a SAC fly to score Breon to get things started on the board for DuBois.

Samuel Cheng would come in for relief of Bell for 1 and 1/3 innings of work before Daniel Stauffer would come in to finish off the night.

One more run would score in the 4^th thanks to a solo home run from Salvo.  In the 6^th Salvo and Dipietro would get the RBI's to score 2 more for DuBois, but Fayette would score another run in the top of the 7^th to tie the game.

In the bottom of the 7^th Stauffer would crush a double off of the left field wall to get things set in place for another walk off situation for DuBois.  Falls would step to the plate and drill a double down the right field line to score Stauffer and win the game, 6-5.

Bell finished the game giving up only 6 hits through 5 innings of work, while Cheng would give up only 2.  Stauffer would get the win in his 2/3rds outing.

Stauffer, Falls, Morgan, and Dipietro would all have doubles for the game.

DuBois will be on the road Saturday as they travel to Fayette for another double header.