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EAST STROUDSBURG – Freshmen Brandon Holup and John Armbrust combined for 14 strikeouts on the mound and senior outfielder Eric Boyer was 3-for-3 with two walks to pace a 14-hit attack as East Stroudsburg University topped Nyack, 7-5, in non-conference baseball on Tuesday at Mitterling Field.

Holup struck out eight in 4.2 innings in his second career start and Armbrust fanned six, didn't issue a walk and allowed just two hits in 3.1 scoreless innings in his first career appearance for the Warriors (8-6). Holup allowed three runs (one earned) on five hits and walked two.

Junior Colin Taylor came on to get all three outs in the ninth for his first career save.

Boyer reached safely in all five plate appearances, had two RBI and scored three runs in the No. 3 spot. He was 9-for-12 with seven RBI and two walks in the Warriors' PSAC East series against Shippensburg last weekend, and is 12-for-15 with four walks (reaching in 16 of 19 plate appearances) in the last five games.

ESU scored a pair of runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings and added another in the sixth. Nyack scored all three of its runs in the fifth to make it 4-3, before the Warriors responded with two in the bottom of the inning.

Redshirt freshman Drew Hercik was 2-for-5 and had ESU's only extra-base hit, a double to lead off the third inning. He scored on an RBI single by Boyer, who scored on an RBI single by junior DH Mike Tenaglia as part of a five-hit inning.

Boyer had another RBI single to score senior 2B Joe Bennie (fielders choice) in the fourth. Tenaglia walked and junior C Eric Forth had a two-out single that brought Boyer home from second.

Nyack (3-7) scored three runs in three hits, a walk and two errors in the fifth as Holup left with runners on second and third and two outs. Armbrust came on to get a strikeout to retire the side, and held Nyack scoreless through the eighth.

ESU got two back in the bottom of the fifth, opening with a base hit by junior 1B Mark Romano and a bunt single redshirt sophomore OF Andy Brandstetter. Junior SS Eric Linares dropped another bunt single, with Brandstetter scoring on a throwing error. Romano scored on a double play later in the inning.

The Warriors added their final run in the sixth as Boyer walked, moved to third on a single by Tenaglia and scored on a failed pickoff attempt at first base.

Nyack finished the scoring with two runs in the ninth after Taylor entered with two runners on and nobody out.

Tenaglia (2-for-4, RBI), Forth (2-for-5, RBI) and Brandstetter (2-for-3, run) joined Boyer and Hercik with multi-hit games. Eight of the Warriors' nine starters had at least one hit.

Nyack used six pitchers with the starter, Erik Puterio (3.0 IP, 6 hits, 2 runs), taking the loss.

ESU is at St. Rose (N.Y.) for a doubleheader on Thursday, and hosts the University of the Sciences (Philadelphia) for another non-conference doubleheader on Saturday at 1 p.m.