Box Scores
L 4-3 / L 5-0

CLEARWATER, Fla. – Oakland City (Ind.) held East Stroudsburg University to 11 hits to sweep a doubleheader and end the Warriors' school record 10-0 start on Tuesday on Florida's Gulf Coast.

The losses end the Warriors' undefeated start to the season one game short of the school record 11-game winning streak they compiled late last season. The 10-0 start is twice as long as the previous record for the best start to a season, set in 1963 and 1979.

ESU opened the year with a three-game sweep at Saint Augustine's and a four-game sweep at Chowan before beating Upper Iowa, Alderson-Broaddus and Urbana in its first three games in Clearwater. The Warriors had won 19 straight non-conference games and were 25-3 in their last 28 regular season games before running into the Mighty Oaks.

Oakland City entered the day undefeated at 6-0 and won the first two games of its five-game trip to Florida, winning 4-3 in the opener and 5-0 in the nightcap. Logan Mohr, who threw a no-hitter against Hiwasee College in his first outing of the season, took a one-hitter into the seventh inning of the second game and finished with at three-hit shutout.

ESU put two runs on the board in the first inning of the opener, but managed just one run and eight hits the rest of the day. Sophomore 1B Brian Ernst hit a two-run double to score junior SS Evan Gallagher and redshirt junior 3B Jake Griesemer, who both singled to start the game, and plated Griesemer with a double in the third inning to put the Warriors ahead 3-1.

Oakland City got one run back in the fourth, then capitalized on a throwing error on a potential double-play ball to score two runs in the fifth and take a 4-3 lead.

Cody Johnson threw 5.0 strong innings (eight hits, three runs) as the starter for the Mighty Oaks and Chris Stallion struck out three and retired all six batters he faced over the final 2.0 innings to earn the save.

Freshman Colin Taylor was a hard-luck loser for ESU, giving up three runs (one earned) over 4.1 innings in relief of Ernst, who left in the second inning but remained in the game as the designated hitter.

In the second game, sophomore Mike Glassic (4.1 IP, 4 runs, 3 earned) and redshirt sophomore Brandon Snyder (2.2 IP, 1 run) handled the pitching duties but the Warriors couldn't solve Mohr on the mound.

The Oakland City 5-11 right-hander walked Gallagher to lead off the bottom of the first but didn't allow another base runner until the fifth inning, when sophomore DH Tom Spilatore reached on an error and sophomore OF Evan Cain hit a two-out single to end Mohr's second straight no-hit bid.

ESU managed two hits in the seventh as Spilatore singled and sophomore C Nico Delerme doubled, both with two outs, before Mohr finished the shutout when Cain flied out to center.

Oakland City scored two runs in the fourth and got two more in the fifth, both unearned, by cashing in on an ESU error to open the inning. They added their final run on a two-out double in the seventh.

ESU hit .386 and scored 102 runs during its 10-game winning streak to open the season before hitting just .216 (11-for-51) and scoring three runs on Tuesday.

Gallagher and Griesemer were the catalysts at the top of the order – Gallagher hit .463 with a .521 on-base percentage, was 7-for-7 on stolen bases, scored 14 runs and had 10 RBI, and Griesemer hit .474 with a .511 on-base percentage, went 7-for-8 on the base paths, had a team-high 19 RBI and scored 12 runs.

Sophomore OF Eric Boyer hit .405 with five doubles, a triple, a home run and 18 RBI from the No. 3 spot, Ernst hit .385 with 10 RBI as the cleanup hitter and four other players hit at least .400 – freshman Eric Forth (.538), Delerme (.438), Spilatore (.414) and Cain (.400). Junior 2B Ryan Guarino hit .353 and reached base at a .500 clip at the bottom of the lineup.

Four pitchers had a 2-0 record on the mound – redshirt senior Jeremy Gigliotti (0.00 ERA, 17 strikeouts in 10.0 IP), freshman Keenan Stare (1.69 ERA, 11 strikeouts in 5.1 IP), redshirt sophomore Andy Noga (2.35 ERA, 13 strikeouts in 15.1 IP) and sophomore Colin Kelly (9.00 ERA, 11.0 IP in three starts). Junior Ryan Beck pitched in four games and nailed down three saves and freshman Keith Moyer also had a save and didn't give up a run in 6.2 innings.

The Warriors are away from the field on Wednesday and have three games remaining on their trip. They face Upper Iowa, a rematch of their 9-5 win earlier in the week, and Cedarville on Thursday, then see Alderson-Broaddus for the second time on Friday after posting a 12-1 win over the Battlers on Monday.