Box Scores
W 16-7 vs. Post (Post pitching line to be updated)
L 7-4 vs. Le Moyne

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HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. - Redshirt senior first baseman Dylan Tamecki was 6-for-8 with six RBI and four runs, including a 5-for-5 outing in the first game of the season, as East Stroudsburg University opened its 2017 baseball campaign with a 1-1 record on Saturday in North Carolina.

ESU notched a 16-7 win vs. Post (Conn.) in the opener before falling to Le Moyne, 7-4, in its second game on Saturday.

The Warriors will face the same two schools on Sunday to complete the opening weekend of the season.

Tamecki, named to the NCBWA Atlantic Region preseason first team after missing most of the 2016 season due to injury, was 5-for-5 with a double, five RBI and two runs in the win over Post. He reached base six times, drawing one of ESU's six times hit by pitch. Tamecki hit .407 as a junior in 2015 in his first season at ESU.

The Warriors had 29 total baserunners on 15 hits, eight walks and the six HBP.

Senior right-hander Tyler Eckman, who was 5-5 in 12 starts as the No. 2 starter on last year's NCAA DII Tournament team that won a school record 38 games, threw 6.0 innings and allowed just an unearned run. He struck out six, giving him 99 career strikeouts, and scattered three hits.

ESU opened an 11-1 lead through six innings and scored in seven of its eight frames on offense.

In the nightcap vs. Le Moyne, the Dolphins scored three in the third and three in the sixth to hold off the Warriors.

ESU took a 4-3 lead in the top of the sixth, but Le Moyne answered in the bottom half with a three-run homer by Josiah Gray, who also got the final four outs (all via strikeout) to earn the save.

The Warriors, who led NCAA Division II in on-base percentage (.445) in 2016, collected 39 baserunners in the two games (.429 obp).


ESU 16, Post 7

Senior OF Ian Allen, second team preseason All-Region as a utility player, hit a two-run homer in the first for the Warriors' initial runs of the season and combined with Tamecki and redshirt senior 3B Conner Crookham (preseason All-America 1st team SS) for three straight two-out doubles in the second as the Warriors opened a 5-0 lead.

Freshman OF Carson Freeman walked, stole second and scored on an RBI single by freshman SS Joey Paolini to make it 6-0 in the third.

The Warriors scored two in the fifth on a Paolini leadoff double and four hit batters - redshirt senior 2B Jay Young, redshirt senior OF Casey Saverio, Tamecki and junior C Steven Zimmerman, Jr.

A two-run single by Tamecki was the only hit in a three-run sixth. The Warriors added one in the seventh on a solo homer by redshirt freshman OF Tom Nuneviller, his first career hit, and then tagged on four in the eighth. Young singled, Saverio walked, freshman OF Zachary Marzano and Tamecki had RBI singles and junior OF Charles Edwards had a two-RBI single to complete the scoring.

Eckman yielded just an unearned run in the fifth. Post scored once in the seventh and five times (three earned) in the eighth to close the margin to 12-7 before the Warriors padded their lead.

Young (2016 All-Region 1st team) scored four runs at the top of the order and reached three times with a hit, walk and HBP. Saverio reached four times (two walks, two HBP) and scored four runs in the No. 2 spot.

Allen was 2-for-5 with a double, homer (11th career), four RBI and two runs, followed by Tamecki's 5-for-5 day in the cleanup spot.

Crookham was 2-for-5 with a double and RBI, and Paolini reached three times (2-for-4, walk, RBI) in the No. 9 spot.

Four Warriors - Nuneviller, Marzano, Edwards and Paolni - had their first career hits at ESU.

Freshman Evan Steele pitched around a one-out single for a scoreless ninth in his first work on the mound.


Le Moyne 7, ESU 4

Dophins pitchers struck out 15, led by starter Sean Pisik, who went 6.0 innings (4 runs, 2 earned, 5 hits, 9 strikeouts, 2 walks).

Le Moyne struck first with three in the third (one earned) off Allen, who was limited to five starts due to injury last spring. The senior left-hander entered with a 9-2 career record in 18 starts and took a no decision (4.0 IP, 1 earned run, 3 hits, 5 strikeouts, 1 walk) in his 2017 mound debut.

Tamecki was hit by a pitch, advanced on a wild pitch and scored on an RBI single by Zimmerman (2016 All-PSAC East 2nd team) in the fourth.

The Warriors took a 4-3 lead with three runs in the sixth. Allen reached on an error, stole second (extending his ESU career record to 68) and scored on an RBI single by Tamecki. Zimmerman doubled, Tamecki scored on an RBI groundout by Nuneviller and Zimmerman scored on an RBI single by junior 3B Laine Renaud, his first career hit as a Warrior.

The lead was short-lived as Le Moyne put its first two batters on in the bottom of the sixth, followed by Gray's three-run homer for a 6-4 lead.

The Dolphins added a run in the seventh.

Junior Nick DiEva (2.0 IP, 3 runs) saw his first career action for ESU, and redshirt senior Ben Stine (2.0 IP, 1 run) made his first appearance since early last season, when he was sidelined after three starts due to injury.

ESU had five hits, with Zimmerman and Renaud both collecting two.