Box Scores
W 6-4
L 3-2

FLEMINGTON, NJ - East Stroudsburg University pounded 16 hits in a 6-4 win in the opener and split the first half of this weekend's four-game set with UMass-Lowell on Saturday at Diamond Nation in New Jersey.

Update: Sunday's games have been canceled due to low temperatures and high winds in the forecast.


Senior OF Eric Boyer was 3-for-5, including a two-run homer, and senior catcher Nico Delerme also went 3-for-5 to lead the Warriors' bats. Senior pitcher Brian Ernst, redshirt freshman 3B Drew Hercik, senior 2B Joe Bennie and junior SS Eric Linares added two hits each.

UMass-Lowell (4-2) won the second game, 3-2, on a two-out single in the seventh.

Ernst was the winning pitcher, going 5.0 innings, and had an RBI single to help his own cause for ESU (3-3) in the opener, which was schedule for nine innings.

Boyer hit a two-run homer in the first and Bennie homered in the third. Boyer drove in Bennie with a single in the fifth and Ernst had an RBI single to score Bennie in the eighth. Linares plated junior OF Chris Knott with an RBI single in the ninth.

Senior left-hander Mike Glassic pitched the sixth and seventh innings, junior Colin Taylor took care of the eighth and junior Keith Moyer came on for his second career save.

In the second game, Ernst and junior 1B Mike Tenaglia hit back-to-back doubles to score ESU's run in the fourth, and Tenaglia tied it at 2-2 with a solo homer to lead off the seventh.

In the bottom of the inning, Knott threw the winning run out at home on a single to center for the first out of the inning, but UMass-Lowell came back to score the game-winner on a close play at the plate with two outs in the frame.

Junior Ryan Lubreski, a transfer from UMass-Amherst, threw 4.1 innings in his first career start. Glassic got the final two outs of the fifth, Taylor threw the sixth and senior left-hander Michael Muglia pitched the seventh before Moyer came in for the final batter.

Shane Beauchemin threw a complete game for UMass-Lowell, with six strikeouts, one walk, four hits and two runs allowed in 7.0 innings.

ESU's next action will come in a doubleheader at Bloomfield (NJ) on Wednesday, March 13.