Box Score

PHILADELPHIA – East Stroudsburg University sent 15 batters to the plate in a 10-run sixth inning and pounded out 25 hits in the game to post a 20-7 win at Philadelphia University for its seventh straight victory in non-conference baseball on Wednesday afternoon.

Freshman OF Evan Cain was 4-for-5 and redshirt sophomore 2B Jake Griesemer, junior 3B Jason Kelmer and senior C Brendan O'Connor all had three hits for the Warriors, who are two wins away from the school record of nine straight victories set during the 2006 season.

The Rams took a 7-6 lead with four runs in the bottom of the fifth inning before ESU broke the game open with its 10-run frame. Griesemer led off the inning with a single and later had a bases-clearing double for two of the Warriors seven hits, and O'Connor, Cain, Kelmer, freshman 1B Brian Ernst, sophomore SS Evan Gallagher and sophomore 2B Ryan Guarino all drove in runs in the inning that ended with ESU holding a 16-7 advantage.

Guarino was 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles and ESU had seven doubles in the game. Kelmer had a double and a triple and senior Kenny Serfass hit his first career home run for the Warriors, a two-run shot in the seventh that stretched the lead to 18-7. Serfass also added a base hit in the ninth and was 2-for-2.

Senior Jeremy Gigliotti struck out nine batters in 4.0 innings of work to improve to 2-0 on the season. He allowed three runs in the second, the first time he has been scored on in three starts this year, and ended a streak of one earned run over his previous 42 innings dating to last year. Gigliotti had a stretch of 31.2 innings without an earned run last season.

Philadelphia touched Ernst for four runs in the fifth to go ahead, but didn't manage a hit over the final three innings off three ESU pitchers. Sophomore Chad Jacobson (three strikeouts), sophomore Ryan Beck (two strikeouts) and Kelmer (one strikeout) all threw an inning each.

The Warriors have reached double figures in hits in three of the last five games during their current seven-game winning streak to lift their season average to .287. They have also committed just three errors during the win streak and are fielding at a .983 clip through the first dozen games.