Box Scores
Game 1 - L 6-4 (10 inn.)
Game 2 - L 8-3

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EAST STROUDSBURG – Bloomsburg outlasted East Stroudsburg University for a 6-4 (10 inn.) win in the opener, and completed Saturday's sweep with an 8-3 win to take three of four games in this weekend's PSAC East baseball series as the Warriors hosted Military Appreciation Day at Mitterling Field.

Senior SS Evan Gallagher became the third player in ESU program history with 200 hits with an RBI triple in the sixth inning of the second game. Gallagher has 36 hits this season and had 45 as a freshman, 67 as a sophomore and 52 as a junior to join Jacob DeBoer (224 – 2004-07) and J.D. Stern (204 – 1996-99) as members of ESU's 200 hit club. The triple was just the second of Gallagher's career. (ESU Record Book)

ESU wore camouflage jerseys and hats as part of its Military Appreciation Day. Prior to the game, both teams assisted with the color guard, which included Operation Touch of Home, Sea Cadets Lehigh Valley Division, Civil Air Patrol Composite Squadron 807 of the Slate Belt and Staff Sergeant Daniel Roland, in presenting a 30x50 American flag made available by Pocono Raceway. The national anthem was sung by Robin Smith.

The names of more than 75 individuals who have military service backgrounds, affiliated with either the ESU or Bloomsburg baseball programs, were read during inning breaks in the first game.

ESU (19-14, 4-8) rallied for three runs in the bottom of the seventh to send the opener to extra innings tied at 3-3, but Bloomsburg (19-15, 8-8) struck for three runs with two outs in the top of the 10th before the Warriors left the tying run on second base in the bottom of the inning.

In game two, Casey Cooperman threw a complete game and gave up just one earned run while the Huskies had 10 hits off four ESU pitchers.

The Warriors opened the weekend with a 7-4 (8 inn.) win and held a 3-1 lead in the second game of Friday's doubleheader, but Bloomsburg came back for a 4-3 victory before taking Saturday's twinbill.

In Saturday's first game, Vinny Voorhees blanked the Warriors on just three hits through the first 6.0 innings before the middle of the order came to life to force extras.

Junior 1B Brian Ernst, who extended his hitting streak to 10 games with a 6-for-14 series, singled to lead off the seventh. Junior OF Eric Boyer followed with a double, and sophomore OF Chris Knott drilled his fifth triple of the season to the top of the hill in right field to get the Warriors within 3-2.

Redshirt senior 3B/DH Jason Kelmer reached on an error, and Knott scored the tying run when the Warriors grounded into a double play for the first two outs of the inning.

ESU had a shot to win it in the eighth when Gallagher and freshman 3B Robert Patete both singled with one out. Ernst hit a long fly ball to center which advanced both the runners, but Boyer's sharp grounder was right at Husky shortstop Tim Ravel, who made a backhand play and got Boyer by a step at first to send the game to the ninth.

Bloomsburg stranded the go-ahead run on third in its next at bat, but broke through with two outs in the 10th with three runs on three hits and a hit batter. No. 9 hitter Josh Schroeder had the go-ahead RBI on an infield single to score Aaron Russell, and Keith Meyer followed with a two-run triple to make it 6-3.

In the bottom of the 10th, junior OF Zac Menendez had a one-out bunt single and three straight Warriors reached with two outs to load the bases. Patete hit an RBI single to score Menendez, Ernst singled and Boyer walked to bring Knott to the plate, but reliever Cody Heane (4.0 IP, 5 hits, 1 run) got a fly ball to right field to end it.

Redshirt senior left-hander Eric Kline threw the first 6.0 innings for the Warriors and yielded just three unearned runs in the second. Freshman Jabin Weaver held the Huskies in the seventh and sophomore Keenan Stare got through the eighth and ninth before the two-out rally in the 10th.

Gallagher's 200th hit in the sixth inning of game two came after Bloomsburg took a 7-1 lead with five runs in the top of the fifth.

The Huskies took a 1-0 lead in the third on an RBI ground out by Meyer, but ESU evened the game at 1-1 in the bottom half when Menendez singled, Ernst was hit by a pitch and Patete produced an RBI single.

Bloomsburg went in front 2-1 with an unearned run in the next half inning, and blew it open with five runs on five hits – including an RBI double by Jarrod Kramer and a two-run single by Vince Smarrelli – to make it 7-1.

The Warriors got two back in the sixth, both unearned, on two hits and two errors. Gallagher's RBI triple to right-center scored junior C Nico Delerme, who reached on an error. Bloomsburg added the game's final run in the seventh.

ESU, the only PSAC East school to make the PSAC Tournament the last two years, faces Kutztown, Millersville and Shippensburg in its final three divisional series. The Warriors host Kutztown next Saturday at 1 p.m. in the second half of the weekend series.

All but one of the division's seven teams, including ESU, are at least three games over .500 overall going into the stretch run led by West Chester (25-3, 10-2).

Kutztown (21-9, 8-4), Shippensburg (23-15, 9-7) and Bloomsburg (19-15, 8-8) also currently hold playoff spots. Millersville (19-16, 7-9), last year's regional champ, ESU and Mansfield (9-25, 2-10) will look to get in the postseason picture over the next three weeks.

GAME NOTES
* Gallagher and Ernst both moved into second in school history in defensive categories over the weekend. Gallagher has 407 assists, passing DeBoer (391) on the career list. Ernst has 640 putouts, passing Mike Cron (630, 1997-98). Senior 2B Ryan Guarino is currently 7th on the career assists list with 271. He left the first game of this weekend's series due to injury.