Box Scores
UMass Lowell 11, ESU 5
Southern Conn. State 4, ESU 0

MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. – East Stroudsburg University continued the opening weekend of the 2010 baseball season on Sunday against two playoff teams from the Northeast-10 Conference, falling 11-5 to UMass-Lowell and 4-0 to Southern Connecticut State.

Senior Jeremy Gigliotti made his season debut against UMass-Lowell in the morning, allowing one hit and four walks over three scoreless innings and striking out five in his first action after undergoing successful surgery during the offseason. Gigliotti is a preseason All-American after posting a 2.55 ERA with 68 strikeouts in 60 innings a year ago.

The Warriors led 5-1 after five innings before UMass-Lowell scored 10 runs over the final four frames sparked by No. 9 hitter Luke Wallace, who had two home runs and a triple. The River Hawks beat the Warriors 3-2 in 13 innings in the season opener for both schools on Saturday night.

ESU manufactured a pair of runs in the first two innings, as sophomore CF Carey Zimmerman doubled and scored on a groundout by freshman 1B Brian Ernst in the first and freshman RF Eric Boyer singled, stole second, moved up on a passed ball and scored on a groundout by sophomore SS Evan Gallagher in the second.

Junior 3B Jason Kelmer hit the Warriors' first home run of the year in the fourth, a two-run shot that followed a walk by Ernst. ESU went ahead 5-1 in the fifth when redshirt sophomore Jake Griesemer reached on catcher's interference, stole second, advanced on a ground ball and scored on a base hit by freshman LF Tom Spilatore.

Redshirt freshman Kyle Evans, sophomore Chad Jacobson, junior Adam Grabowski and freshman Mike Muglia threw the final six innings in relief of Gigliotti.

In the second game, Steve Simon threw eight shutout innings as Southern Connecticut improved to 2-0 on the season.

Freshman Colin Kelly was an emergency starter after Kelmer was scratched before his first pitch and threw 4.1 innings, allowing four runs on five hits, walking three and striking out four.

Freshman Mike Glassic came on in relief in the fifth and was unhittable in his collegiate debut, getting nine of his 14 outs by strikeout in 4.2 innings. He didn't allow a base hit and issued three walks.

ESU (0-3) has committed just three errors in its first three games of the season and faces SCSU on Monday morning to finish its opening weekend. The Warriors will return to campus before traveling to Palm Beach, Fla. for their spring break trip which begins on Friday.