Box Scores
Upper Iowa - L 6-5 (10 inn.)
Cedarville - W 7-5
Alderson-Broaddus - W 5-1

CLEARWATER, Fla. – Redshirt sophomore Andy Noga threw six strong innings and redshirt senior Jeremy Gigliotti got out of a no out, bases loaded jam in the eighth inning as part of his first career save as East Stroudsburg University finished its spring break trip with a 5-1 win over Alderson-Broaddus on Friday morning.

The Warriors will return to Pennsylvania with a 12-3 record after going 5-3 in Clearwater. They won their first three games to run the best start in school history to 10-0 and were ranked No. 3 in this week's NCBWA Atlantic Region poll.

ESU split two games on Thursday, falling to Upper Iowa 6-5 in 10 innings before posting a 7-5 win over Cedarville (Ohio). ESU rallied for a 9-5 win over Upper Iowa in its first game in Florida on Sunday.

Noga won for the third time in his first four starts by allowing one run in 6.0 innings, striking out three and scattering eight hits. Redshirt sophomore Brandon Snyder pitched a scoreless seventh inning before yielding a walk, single and hit by pitch to start the eighth, but Gigliotti entered and got two strikeouts and a groundout to second to end the threat and preserve the Warriors' 3-1 lead.

ESU padded its lead with two insurance runs in the ninth, as sophomore OF Eric Boyer drew a one-out walk, stole second and scored on a single by sophomore 1B Brian Ernst. Freshman C Eric Forth followed with a single and Ernst later scored on an error.

Gigliotti, pitching in relief for the first time since his sophomore season in 2008, got a comebacker to the mound and a strikeout for the first two outs of the ninth, then picked off leadoff hitter Mitch Roy for the final out after Roy was hit by a pitch.

Gigliotti shut down Alderson-Broaddus with 12 strikeouts, one walk and three hits over 7.0 scoreless innings in a 12-1 win on Monday. The preseason All-Region left-hander hasn't allowed a run in 12.0 innings and has 20 strikeouts, one walk and just four hits allowed in three games this season.

Ernst was 3-for-5 with three RBI to lead the offense. He drove in junior SS Evan Gallagher with a single in the first inning, singled in the fifth, broke a 1-1 tie with a fielders' choice groundout in the seventh and then plated Boyer with his third hit of the game in the top of the ninth.

Boyer carried the Warriors in their split with Upper Iowa and Cedarville on Thursday, going 5-for-7 with two doubles, a home run, four RBI and three runs scored. The sophomore leads ESU with a .404 batting average, seven doubles, a triple, two home runs and 22 RBI through the first 15 games of the season.

Boyer hit a two-run homer in the third inning of the loss to Upper Iowa and went 4-for-5 with an RBI and two runs in the win over Cedarville. He doubled and scored ESU's first run in the fourth, belted an RBI double in the fifth and singled and scored the go-ahead in the seventh.

The Warriors fell behind 5-1 in the fifth before getting two runs in the bottom of the inning, then tied the game with two more in the sixth by capitalizing on three errors by Cedarville. In the seventh, Boyer singled, Ernst walked and sophomore OF Evan Cain drove in Boyer with a two-out single. Ernst later scored on an error.

Sophomore Mike Muglia, the last of three pitchers to take the mound, earned the win for ESU with 2.2 innings of relief (2 hits, 0 runs). Freshman Keith Moyer went 4.1 innings in his first career start (8 hits, 5 runs, 4 strikeouts, 2 walks) and freshman Joel Rosencrance gave up five hits in 2.0 innings but didn't allow a run.

Against Upper Iowa, ESU scored two runs in the top of the eighth to take a 5-4 lead, but the Peacocks got a leadoff homer from Kody McCauley in the bottom of the inning and then used a walk, double, hit by pitch and single, all with two outs, to score the winning run in the bottom of the 10th.

Junior Ryan Beck (1.2 IP, 3 hits, 1 run, 2 strikeouts, 1 walk) took the loss, his first loss of the season after picking up three saves in his first five appearances. Freshman Keenan Stare made his first career start (4.0 IP, 5 hits, 4 runs/3 earned, 4 strikeouts, 2 walks) and sophomore Colin Kelly threw 4.0 innings in relief.

The Warriors are scheduled to host USP in a non-conference game next Thursday before opening the PSAC East schedule next weekend against defending regional champion Kutztown.