Box Scores
L 7-3
W 3-2

MANSFIELD – Junior outfielder Chris Knott homered to lead off the seventh inning and break a 2-2 tie in the nightcap, giving East Stroudsburg University a split at Mansfield in the first half of this weekend's PSAC East baseball series.

Knott, who had a walk-off single in the eighth inning of a 3-2 win over University of the Sciences last Saturday, made a winner of junior Ryan Lubreski. The right-hander threw his fourth straight complete game, all victories, to improve to 4-0 on the season for ESU (13-8, 2-4).

Mansfield (11-12, 2-8) won the opener, 7-3, coming back from a 3-1 deficit in the second inning. Joe Candelmo threw a complete game for the Mounties.

The series returns to ESU's Mitterling Field for two games on Saturday beginning at 1 p.m. The Warriors will hold their second annual Military Appreciation Day, which will include a 40-foot by 80-foot American flag donated by Pocono Raceway.  (Complete release)

Knott was 3-for-6 with a double, triple, home run, two RBI and two runs in the doubleheader. He doubled and scored in the opener and drove in two of the Warriors' three runs in game two.

Junior 1B Mike Tenaglia was also 3-for-6 with two doubles, raising his season total to 11. He drove in the game-tying run in the top of the sixth in game two.

Game 1

Mansfield led 1-0 after the first inning on an RBI double by Joey Andrews before ESU put together four straight hits to score three in the second.

Tenaglia doubled with one out and scored on a single by junior catcher Eric Forth, Knott doubled to give the Warriors runners on second and third, and freshman OF John Armbrust had a two-run single to make it 3-1.

Senior Brian Ernst blanked Mansfield in the second and third, but the Mounties rallied to score three runs (all unearned) on one hit, three walks and two errors to take a 4-3 lead in the fourth.

Mansfield added two runs in the fifth and another in the sixth. Junior Colin Taylor relieved Ernst in the fourth, going 1.1 innings, and freshman Brandon Holup pitched the sixth.

Candelmo allowed three runs on six hits, struck out four and didn't issue a walk to improve to 3-2 for Mansfield. Andrews was 3-for-4 with two RBI and Anthony Renz had a two-run single.

Game 2

The Mounties opened quickly with a leadoff homer by Dylan Woodworth in the first, but they would only dent the scoreboard one more time off Lubreski, who is 4-0 with a 1.50 ERA in six games (five starts), including four complete games and one shutout.

ESU got the run back in the second as Forth drew a two-out walk and scored on Knott's ninth career triple.

Mansfield scored an unearned run in the fifth to take a 2-1 lead, but the Warriors evened it up in the top of the sixth. Redshirt freshman 3B Drew Hercik singled with one out, Ernst singled with two outs, and after a pitching change, Tenaglia had the game-tying RBI with a base hit through the left side.

Lubreski got out of trouble in the bottom of the sixth after a leadoff walk and wild pitch put the go-ahead run on second base with one out.

Knott's homer to right, the ninth of his career, gave the Warriors the lead in the top of the seventh and Lubreski retired the side in order in the seventh to seal the win.

Three players had two hits each for ESU in Tenaglia, Knott and redshirt sophomore OF Andy Brandstetter.

Lubreski scattered seven hits over his 7.0 innings, struck out four and walked two. He has 29 strikeouts and just eight walks in 36.0 innings while holding opponents to a .192 batting average.