Box Scores
W 22-1 / W 8-2 / Composite Box Score

NORTH WALES – East Stroudsburg University used an 11-home run attack, including seven in the first game, to extend its winning streak to a school-record 10 games with a doubleheader sweep at Chestnut Hill on Monday at Hostelley Field.

ESU (24-16) also tied a school record with its seven home runs in a 22-1 win and completed the sweep with an 8-2 victory in the nightcap.

The opener was played using wood bats with Chestnut Hill (12-16) competing in the wood-bat Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference.

The seven homers with wood bats are believed to be a PSAC record. The Warriors also hit seven homers in the first game of a doubleheader at Mansfield last year which they followed with four in the nightcap – the same as Monday night.

ESU broke the school record of nine straight wins set in 2006 and has won 13 of its last 14 games, including a 3-1 weekend vs. Shippensburg on April 9-10 and a 4-0 sweep of Millersville last weekend going into this weekend's critical PSAC East series vs. Mansfield.

Freshmen Mike Muglia (5.0 IP, 5 hits, 1 run, 5 strikeouts) and Tyler Setztler (5.0 IP, 7 hits, 2 runs, 3 strikeouts) both turned in strong performances on the mound and sophomore reliever Chad Jacobson didn't allow a hit in 3.0 innings over the two games, but the story of the sweep was the offense that scored 30 runs on 28 hits in the twinbill.

ESU scored multiple runs in six innings in the opener and led 19-1 through five frames. The Warriors homered in all six innings that they scored runs, plating two runs each in the 1st and 2nd, four in the 3rd, five in the 4th, six in the 5th and three in the 7th.

The bulk of the power came from two unlikely sources – sophomore CF Carey Zimmerman hit his first two career home runs and sophomore 2B Ryan Guarino homered for the second and third time in his career. Freshman 1B Brian Ernst, senior LF Kenny Serfass and freshman C Nico Delerme also homered in the opener.

The squads switched to aluminum bats for the second game but the outcome was the same, as the Warriors hit four home runs in the first two innings.

Sophomore SS Evan Gallagher led off the top of the first with the second blast of his career and Ernst hit his second of the day later in the inning.

In the top of the second, Serfass and senior C Brendan O'Connor, high school teammates at Pleasant Valley, started the inning with back-to-back homers to give ESU a 5-0 lead on four homers before Chestnut Hill could get four outs.

Gallagher went 5-for-7 with five runs to raise his season batting average to .403, with 60 hits in 149 at bats. He had 45 hits as a freshman, batting .363, and recorded his 100th career hit last weekend against Millersville.

Guarino was 5-for-8 including his two home runs. Ernst, Serfass and Zimmerman had four hits each in the doubleheader – Zimmerman was 4-for-5 with five RBI in the opener and Gallagher, Guarino and Ernst all had three hit games.

The power surge gives the Warriors 33 home runs on the season, including 19 during the longest winning streak in school history. Ernst, Serfass and junior Jason Kelmer share the team lead with six homers, one out of a spot on the single season top 10 list.

ESU has scored 114 runs during the 10-game stretch, which includes a.401 batting average, .479 on-base percentage and .668 slugging percentage. Gallagher is hitting .500 (21-42) with 18 runs, one of seven regulars hitting over .400, while Ernst is a notch below at .394 with four homers and a team-high 17 RBI. Gallagher and Ernst are the only players to start all 10 games.

Defensively, the Warriors have a 2.57 ERA and have committed just six errors for a .978 fielding percentage. The pitching staff turned in four complete games in last weekend's sweep of Millersville, with senior Christian Saveri, sophomore Ryan Beck and freshmen Colin Kelly and Ernst holding the Marauders to seven runs.

The weekend four-game set with Mansfield will determine ESU's postseason plans with six of the seven PSAC East schools still in contention for four playoff spots.

The Warriors enter with a 9-11 record, tied with Millersville for fourth while holding the tiebreaker. Bloomsburg (9-15) has finished its conference schedule and owns the tiebreaker over ESU.

Mansfield (11-9) sits in third, while Kutztown and West Chester are tied for the lead at 14-6. Kutztown plays Bloomsburg this weekend, while West Chester takes on Shippensburg.

This weekend's series opens with two games at Mansfield on Friday followed by the Warriors' Senior Day doubleheader on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Mitterling Field.