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WEST CHESTER - Defending PSAC champion West Chester prevailed 6-3 after an early pitchers duel in the opener as the Golden Rams took both ends of Saturday's PSAC East baseball doubleheader at Serpico Stadium.

West Chester (12-3, 4-0) won the nightcap, 12-2, to capture all four games of this weekend's opening divisional series.

ESU (10-10, 0-4), which had multiple opportunities to win Friday's opener before WCU pulled out a 4-3 win in nine innings, returns to PSAC East play next weekend against Bloomsburg.

All nine runs in the opener were scored after the bottom of the fifth inning. WCU scored two in that frame, ESU answered with two in the top of the sixth, the Golden Rams got four in the bottom of the sixth and ESU got one back in the seventh for the final margin.

West Chester opened a 5-0 lead through two innings in the nightcap.

Senior OF Ian Allen and redshirt senior 2B Jay Young both had three hits on Saturday. Young had two hits in game one, and Allen had two hits in game two.

Allen, Young and redshirt senior 1B Dylan Tamecki all had four hits on the weekend.

Allen is hitting .437 (31-for-71) with 17 extra-base hits, including five home runs, 26 RBI, 22 runs and 17 stolen bases through 20 games. He entered the weekend in the top three in the PSAC in nearly every offensive category.

GAME 1

WCU's Mike Cipolla (5.2 IP, 2 runs, 4 hits, 6 strikeouts, 3 walks) held ESU without a hit for the first four innings, while ESU redshirt senior Conner Crookham (4.0 IP, 0 runs, 1 hit, 3 strikeouts, 1 walk) blanked the Golden Rams as the first four frames were played at a brisk pace.

ESU got singles from Tamecki and redshirt sophomore C Mike Sulcoski in the top of the fifth but didn't score, and WCU scored twice on a walk and two hits in the bottom half after freshman Carson Freeman entered in relief of Crookham.

The Warriors leveled it in the top of the sixth with a pair of two-out runs. Young singled, redshirt freshman OF Tom Nuneviller walked, Allen had an RBI single to plate Young, Tamecki walked and Nuneviller scampered home on a wild pitch after Josh McClain (1.1 IP, 1 run, 2 hits, 1 strikeout, 1 walk) relieved Cipolla before getting out of the threat.

In the bottom of the sixth, WCU scored four runs on five hits, including three straight to start the inning.

ESU produced a run in the seventh, again with two outs. Redshirt sophomore P.J. Van Orman walked, freshman Zachary Marzano had an infield single and Young had an RBI single.

Young had two of ESU's six hits. West Chester scattered eight hits through its lineup.

GAME 2

West Chester scored four runs in the first and one in the second, and had seven late runs - three in the fifth and four in the seventh - to finish the weekend. The Golden Rams had 12 hits and drew seven walks and a hit batter.

ESU scored both of its runs in the third. Young had an infield single, Allen singled to center and stole second and Tamecki walked to load the bases, and junior C Steven Zimmerman reached on an RBI fielders choice that included an error that allowed a second run to score.

Andrew Gernert (6.0 IP, 2 runs, 1 earned, 4 hits, 8 strikeouts, 1 walk) earned the win for West Chester and four Golden Rams had multi-hit games, including a 3-for-3 day with a triple for Zach Sheranko.