Box Scores
Game 1 - L 6-5 (8 inn.)
Game 2 - W 6-4

MURFREESBORO, N.C. - Senior outfielder Ian Allen finished a big weekend with a 3-for-3 effort, including a double, home run and three RBI, in a 6-4 win in the nightcap as East Stroudsburg University split a non-conference baseball doubleheader at Chowan on Sunday afternoon.

ESU (7-5) split the four games, winning 6-2 and falling 7-3 on Saturday, and falling 6-5 (8 inn.) in the first game Sunday after Chowan rallied with three two-out runs in the seventh to force extra innings.

Allen went 10-for-14 with three doubles, two home runs, two walks, nine RBI and four runs, playing a role in 11 of ESU's 20 runs in the weekend series.

Freshman right-hander Carson Freeman earned his first career win, going 4.1 innings (2 runs, 6 hits, 2 strikeouts, 3 walks), and redshirt freshman Chris Crookham posted the save, getting the final six outs after Chowan cut a 6-2 deficit to 6-4 with a pair of home runs and a triple in the bottom of the sixth before Crookham entered.

Redshirt senior 2B Jay Young was 3-for-7 with a double, walk, RBI and three runs in the leadoff spot on Sunday. Junior 3B Laine Renaud also had three hits, including a double.

In the opener, freshman Connor Johnson got a tough-luck no-decision, throwing 5.0 innings (1 earned run, 3 hits, 2 strikeouts, 3 walks) and leaving with a 5-2 lead before Chowan rallied. Johnson threw 6.0 shutout innings in an 11-2 win vs. Shepherd in a match-up of 2016 NCAA Division II Tournament teams last Sunday in Virginia.

Allen, a two-time All-PSAC East selection and preseason NCBWA All-Region second team utility player (OF/LHP), is hitting .478 with a .564 on-base percentage and .957 slugging percentage through 12 games for the Warriors. He has 13 extra-base hits (8 doubles, 1 triple, 4 HR), 22 RBI and 17 runs while reaching base 29 times (22 hits, 6 walks, 3 HBP).

The Warriors will play their first home games next weekend, hosting IUP for a four-game non-conference series on Saturday (March 11) and Sunday at Mitterling Field.

GAME 1 - L 6-5 (8 inn.)

Chowan scored three runs on four hits in the bottom of the seventh, including a two-run single and game-tying triple with two outs, and won it in the eighth with a leadoff single, wild pitch and a one-out RBI single.

ESU led 5-0 after the top of the second inning but was scoreless the rest of the way.

Allen, Renaud and redshirt senior OF Casey Saverio had two hits each. The Warriors scored three in the first as Young drew a leadoff walk, Allen singled, junior C Steven Zimmerman, Jr. had an RBI groundout and redshirt senior 1B Dylan Tamecki and redshirt sophomore C Mike Sulcoski had RBI singles.

In the second, freshman SS Joey Paolini reached on a one-out error, Young singled and Allen belted a two-RBI single for a 5-0 advantage.

Chowan got two runs in the bottom of the fourth, one earned, off Johnson, after Johnson faced the minimum of nine batters through the first three innings.

Corey Fago threw 4.0 shutout innings in relief, allowing three hits and striking out five, for Chowan.

GAME 2 - W 6-4

Allen hit a solo homer in the first and had a two-out, two-RBI double in a four-run fifth as the Warriors earned the series split.

ESU took a 2-0 lead in the third as junior OF Charles Edwards drew a leadoff walk, stole second, advanced to third on a throwing error and scored on an RBI groundout by Young.

Chowan tied it in the bottom of the fourth but stranded two, and ESU put four across in the top of the fifth.

Senior SS Billy Sablinski drew a one-out walk, and ESU put four two-out hits together - a single by Young, an RBI single by redshirt freshman OF Tom Nuneviler, Allen's two-RBI double and an RBI triple by Tamecki.

Chowan got back-to-back homers from Zack Cooper and Tre Brosdahl and a triple by Tyler Jones in the bottom of the sixth before Crookham entered in relief of redshirt junior left-hander Mike Pepio.

Crookham got a strikeout, hit the next batter and induced a double play to get out of the inning, and pitched around a one-out single in the seventh to secure the win.

Allen (3-for-3, walk) and Young (2-for-4) combined for five of ESU's eight hits.