Box Scores
Alderson-Broaddus - W 12-1
Urbana (Ohio) - W 11-10

CLEARWATER, Fla. – Redshirt senior Jeremy Gigliotti had a career-high 12 strikeouts in seven innings in a 12-1 win over Alderson-Broaddus in the opener, and East Stroudsburg University overcame a 6-0 first-inning deficit for an 11-10 win over Urbana in the second game of the day to improve to 10-0 on Monday in west Florida.

ESU, which moved to third in the NCBWA Atlantic Region poll earlier in the day, played both games at Jack Russell Stadium, the former spring training home of the Philadelphia Phillies. The historic venue saw the Warriors double their previous longest undefeated start, and they can tie and surpass last year's school record 11-game winning streak in a doubleheader against undefeated Oakland City (Ind.) on Tuesday.

ESU has won 19 straight and 26 of its last 27 non-conference games dating to last year, and is 25-3 in its last 28 regular season games. The 11-game winning streak was part of a 15-3 finish to the regular season last year as the Warriors surged to the fourth PSAC playoff berth in school history.

Gigliotti, a preseason All-American last year before suffering a season-ending injury, is 2-0 with 17 strikeouts, one walk and four hits allowed in 10.0 innings in his first two starts after a command performance against Alderson-Broaddus. The Battlers fell to 1-8 on the season against a difficult schedule but were 27-14 and won the WVIAC central division a year ago.

The left-hander gave up three hits, struck out 12 and walked one and didn't allow a run in 7.0 innings as ESU went ahead 3-0 early and scored nine runs in the final three frames. Gigliotti moved into fourth in school history with 175 strikeouts while ranking 17th with 158.2 innings pitched. He had his fifth career game with at least 10 strikeouts.

Junior shortstop Evan Gallagher was 7-for-10 on the day, including a 5-for-5 effort at the top of the order against Urbana as the Warriors scored at least one run in seven of the first eight innings to battle back from a 6-0 hole through the first half-inning. Gallagher scored four runs and drove in two while putting together just the third five-hit game for the Warriors since 2003.

Against Alderson-Broaddus, Gigliotti got out of a bases loaded jam in the first inning, then struck out 10 of the 18 batters he faced from the second through the sixth. Offensively, the Warriors got two runs in the second on an RBI triple by sophomore DH Tom Spilatore and an RBI single by Gallagher, and added another in the third on Spilatore's RBI single that scored sophomore catcher Nico Delerme.

ESU pushed its lead to 7-0 with four runs in the seventh. The Warriors stole three bases in the inning, including a double steal by redshirt junior 3B Jake Griesemer and sophomore OF Eric Boyer, and sophomore 1B Brian Ernst followed with a two-run single. After Delerme singled, Spilatore doubled to bring home both runners and cap a 3-for-4, three RBI game at the plate.

The Warriors pushed across five runs (four unearned) in the ninth, all with two outs. Freshman 2B Matt Bahnick had an RBI double, Griesemer had an RBI single and Boyer had an RBI double for the final run of the inning. Redshirt sophomore Kyle Evans threw the final 2.0 innings in relief of Gigliotti, giving up one run on two hits, striking out two and walking two.

The win over Urbana was the Warriors' second come-from-behind victory in as many days, as they trailed 5-2 entering the eighth inning of a 9-5 win over Upper Iowa on Sunday.

Urbana got to sophomore Colin Kelly early, knocking him from the game after 2.0 innings, but freshman Joel Rosencrance (4.1 IP, 2 runs, 3 hits, 5 strikeouts, 2 walks), freshman Keenan Stare (1.2 IP, 1 hit, 3 strikeouts) and junior Ryan Beck (1.0 IP, 1 run, 3 strikeouts, 4 walks) closed the deal on the mound. Beck picked up his third save of the season and fifth of his career and also threw a scoreless ninth inning against Upper Iowa.

The Warriors got back into the game at the plate, pulling within 7-4 with three runs in the third as junior 2B Ryan Guarino walked and Gallagher singled to set the table for the middle of the order. Boyer drove in Guarino with a single, Ernst walked and freshman DH Eric Forth plated Gallagher with a base hit before sophomore OF Evan Cain drove in the final run of the inning with a fielders' choice.

They added two more in the fourth on Boyer's two-run double, and got another in the fifth to tie the game at 7-7 as freshman OF Chris Knott hit a one-out triple and scored on a groundout by Delerme.

ESU took its first lead of the game in the sixth when Gallagher hit a leadoff triple and scored on a ground ball by Griesemer, but Urbana got back on the board with two runs in the top of the seventh to go ahead 9-8. Stare entered with a runner on second and one out and retired the next two batters to get out of the inning.

The first four batters reached base in the bottom of the seventh as the Warriors rallied again, scoring three runs in the inning capped by Gallagher's two-out, two-run single – his fifth hit of the game – to give his team an 11-9 lead. Guarino hit the game-tying sacrifice fly earlier in the inning to score Spilatore, who led off with a single, and a double steal by Delerme and Knott put the go-ahead runs in scoring position for Gallagher.

Stare gave up a two-out triple but got a strikeout to end the eighth inning, and Beck struck out the side in the ninth around four walks. He walked the first two batters, got two strikeouts, then issued two more walks to force in a run and put the tying run on third before getting the No. 2 batter, Trace Fowler (3-for-6) to go down swinging to end the game.

ESU has scored 32 runs in its first three games in Florida and has plated at least 10 runs in seven of its 10 games. Going into Tuesday's games against Oakland City, Griesemer (.474), Gallagher (.463), Delerme (.438), Spilatore (.414), Boyer (.405) and Cain (.400) are all hitting at least .400 and the Warriors are hitting .386 with 102 runs during their undefeated start.