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W 13-0 / W 13-2

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MURFREESBORO, N.C. – Three pitchers combined on a one-hitter in a 13-0 win in the opener and East Stroudsburg University completed a four-game sweep of Chowan with a 13-2 victory in the nightcap to extend its undefeated start to 7-0, the best in school history, on Sunday in North Carolina.

The Warriors followed Saturday's doubleheader sweep (7-2, 13-2) with two more impressive wins to surpass the 1963 and 1979 clubs that both opened with 5-0 records. ESU has outscored Saint Augustine's and Chowan, the top two teams in the CIAA last season, by a 70-11 count during its 7-0 start.

Redshirt senior Jeremy Gigliotti, a preseason All-Region pick, was sharp in his 2011 debut in the opener. The left-hander struck out five without a walk and allowed one hit in 3.0 innings before turning it over to sophomore southpaw Mike Glassic (2.0 IP, 1 strikeout, 1 walk) and freshman right-hander Colin Taylor (2.0 IP, 1 hit), who completed the combined one-hitter.

Sophomore Colin Kelly improved to 2-0 on the season as the starting pitcher in the second game, giving up one run on four hits in 4.0 innings of work. Kelly left with a 9-1 lead and freshmen Joel Rosencrance (2.0 IP, 4 hits, 1 run) and Keenan Stare (1.0 IP, 2 strikeouts, 2 walks) tossed the last three innings.

ESU had 15 hits in the opener and 17 in the second game to hit .478 for the day, and the offense hit .439 in the series to lift its team batting average to .403. The Warriors are averaging 10 runs and 13 hits per game and outscored Chowan 46-6 in the series.

Sophomore OF Eric Boyer had six hits in the doubleheader, going 3-for-4 in both games, to lead the Warriors out of the No. 3 spot. Sophomore OF Evan Cain was 5-for-10 with a three-hit effort in game two, sophomore 1B Brian Ernst was 4-for-8 with a pair of two-hit games and seven other Warriors had two hits on the afternoon. Boyer and Cain both had seven hits in the four-game sweep.

The Warriors broke open both games with six runs in the second inning. They sent 10 batters to the plate in the second frame of the opener, plating six runners on three hits, three walks, a hit by pitch and a sacrifice fly.

Freshman OF Chris Knott had an RBI single and Cain had an RBI double near the end of the inning, Cain had an RBI single in the fourth, and Boyer drove in a run with a single in the sixth. Knott had two of ESU's four sacrifice flies in the first game.

Griesemer's two-run, two-out double was the key hit as 11 batters went to the dish in the second inning of the nightcap. Boyer followed with an RBI double and Ernst drove in the sixth run of the inning with a single.

The Warriors added three more runs in the third before Chowan could get an out to go ahead 9-0, and pushed two runners across in both the sixth and seventh. Sophomore catcher Nico Delerme and Cain both had RBI singles in the sixth, and Knott and Delerme drew bases loaded walks in the final inning.

Delerme and freshman C/DH Eric Forth were both 2-for-2 on the day and sophomore DH Tom Spilatore, senior catcher Bryce Muth, junior OF Carey Zimmerman, junior 2B Ryan Guarino and junior SS Evan Gallagher also had two hits apiece. Thirteen of the 14 Warriors who got in the lineup scored a run.

Griesemer was 6-for-11 with 10 RBI and eight runs in the series, including a grand slam in the second game on Saturday. Griesemer leads the Warriors' regulars with a .583 batting average (14-for-24), 15 RBI and 10 runs; Boyer is hitting .414 (12-for-29) with a double, triple, home run, 12 RBI and eight runs; and Gallagher is hitting at a .400 clip (10-for-25) with six RBI and nine runs. Boyer was 7-for-16 and Gallagher was 6-for-12 over the weekend.

The Warriors lowered their staff ERA to 1.76 by allowing just four runs over four games and Kelly joined redshirt sophomore Andy Noga by winning both of his first two starts. Freshman Keith Moyer and Noga were the winning pitchers in Saturday's games.

Gigliotti ran his career record to 13-8 in his 30th start with his victory in the opener. He moved into sixth in school history with 163 strikeouts, one away from breaking into the top five. Gigliotti was a consensus All-Region selection as a junior in 2009, when he was 5-2 with a 2.55 ERA and 68 strikeouts in 60.0 innings, before appearing in just three games last season (2-0, 16 strikeouts in 12 innings) and being granted a medical redshirt year.

ESU is away from action next weekend and will look to continue its record-setting start with eight games in Clearwater, Florida over spring break. The Warriors face Upper Iowa in their opener on March 6.