Box Scores
L 14-3 / L 8-4
MANSFIELD - Mansfield received complete game pitching performances from Justin Garcia and Tyler Noel and pounded out 27 hits to take both ends of a doubleheader from East Stroudsburg University on Sunday.
Mansfield (17-8, 3-1) had 18 hits in a 14-3 win in the first game, and used a four-run fourth inning to win the nightcap 8-4.
Three Mounties drove in three runs in the opener, including Garcia, who was 3-for-5 with two homers and scored three runs. Garcia went deep for the game's first run in the second inning to help Mansfield take a 4-0 lead, and Chris Miller hit a two-run shot in the third.
ESU (11-16, 1-3) scored a pair of runs in the top of the fourth when junior CF Mike Bortz singled and scored on a wild pitch, and junior 1B Chris Zsenak walked and crossed the plate on an error by the shortstop.
Garcia homered again in the bottom of the fourth as Mansfield extended its lead to 9-2, and Miller hit his second home run of the game in the sixth inning.
Junior Kevin Thompson hit his first home run of the season in the top of the seventh for ESU.
Thompson also homered in his first at bat of the second game after Mansfield took a 1-0 lead in the first. Freshman C Bryce Muth followed with a single and scored on a double by freshman SS Edwin Padua, who was 2-for-3 in the game, to put ESU ahead 2-1 in the second.
The Warriors manufactured another run in the third as junior 3B Chad Schlegel led off the inning with a single, went to second on a sacrifice bunt by sophomore 2B Brendan O'Malley, moved to third on a passed ball and scored on a sacrifice fly by Bortz.
Mansfield tied the game at 3-3 in the bottom of the inning and scored four more runs in the fourth inning on two hits, two walks and an error to take a 7-3 lead.
Padua singled and later scored on a groundout by O'Malley to cut the deficit to 7-4 in the fifth, but Noel had four of his seven strikeouts over the final two innings to lock down the win for the Mounties.
ESU hosts Columbia Union in a non-conference doubleheader on Tuesday at 1 p.m. at Mitterling Field. The teams split a doubleheader in Maryland on March 21.
