Box Scores
W 23-4
W 6-4

DINWIDDIE, Va. - Senior first baseman Laine Renaud hit three home runs and had 12 RBI, including a walk-off shot in the nightcap, as East Stroudsburg University swept a non-conference baseball doubleheader vs. Saint Rose, 23-4 and 6-4, on Saturday afternoon.

Saint Rose (1-2) knocked off No. 2-ranked West Chester, the defending NCAA Division II champion, in its season opener on Friday.

ESU hit six home runs in the opener, including four in a nine-run fifth inning to break the game open. The Warriors had 22 hits and 33 baserunners (9 walks, 2 HBP) in the seven-inning contest.

In the nightcap, redshirt junior Matt Durkin threw 4.0 innings of scoreless relief (1 hit, 7 strikeouts, 1 walk) as ESU rallied from a 4-1 deficit after the top of the third.

Junior OF Zarley Cina was 6-for-8 in the leadoff spot, posting three hits in both games, and had four RBI, five runs and also reached base on a hit by pitch.  He hit his fourth home run of the season in the opener.

Renaud was 5-for-9 with his three homers, 12 RBI and three runs. His eight RBI in game one are ESU's most in 12 years, since Josh Johnson had 11 vs. Minnesota-Duluth in 2006.

Redshirt junior DH Christian Rishel was 4-for-6 in the twinbill, including his first home run of the season and the 12th of his career. He hit nine in 2016, earning first team All-PSAC East honors, before missing last year due to injury.

Sophomore SS Joey Poalini and sophomore OF Carson Freeman added three hits each, as ESU had 31 hits in the doubleheader.

ESU's six home runs in game one are the program's second-most in the last 15 years.

Renaud's walk-off homer is ESU's second in two years - after a three-run shot by Ian Allen in a 5-3 win vs. Bloomsburg on March 30 last season - which was the program's first since at least 2002.


GAME 1 - W 23-4

Three Warriors - Cina, Renaud, Rishel and Freeman - had three hits each, and ESU posted crooked numbers in four innings in a 23-run outburst.

ESU scored six in the first, three in the third, nine in the fifth and five in the seventh.

Renaud homered twice and Cina, Rishel, Freeman and Paolini also went deep in the victory.

Cina was 3-for-4 with four RBI and three runs in the leadoff spot, and freshman catcher Chris Buke went 2-for-4 with two walks, two RBI and three runs second career start.

Renaud was 3-for-5 (2 HR, 8 RBI, 2 runs), Rishel went 3-for-4 (HR, 2 RBI, 2 runs), Freeman was 3-for-6 (HR, 2 RBI, 2 runs), Paolini went 2-for-3 (HR, walk, 2 RBI, 3 runs) and freshman 2B Brainy Rojas was 2-for-5 (2B, walk, RBI, 2 runs).

ESU sent 11 batters to the plate in the first, getting a two-RBI single from Renaud, an RBI single by Rishel and a two-RBI single by Cina his second time up as part of a six-run frame.

Saint Rose scored three in the bottom half, which ESU got back in the third as Paolini singled, Rojas doubled, Burke had a two-RBI single and the Warriors plated another on an error.

ESU extended its lead to 18-4 with nine in the fifth, including a three-run homer to right by Renaud, a solo shot to left by Rishel, a two-run homer to left by Paolini after Freeman doubled, and a two-run shot to left by Cina - his fourth in six games.

Renaud launched a three-run homer to left in the seventh, and Freeman hit a two-run blast to right for a five-run frame.

Junior right-hander Logan Zavada (4.0 IP, 4 runs, 6 hits, 2 strikeouts, 2 walks) got the win, with redshirt junior Derrick Jackson (2.0 IP, 0 hits, 4 strikeouts) and redshirt freshman left-hander Andrew Alvino (1.0 IP, 2 strikeouts, 1 walk) tossing scoreless relief.

Saint Rose sent five pitchers to the hill, each giving up at least three runs.

GAME 2 - W 6-4

Saint Rose scored in each of the first three innings, while ESU got one in the first on a two-out RBI single by Rishel (scoring Cina) and two in the third on a two-run single by Renaud (scoring Cina and freshman 3B Brock Kauffman, who doubled), to cut the deficit to 4-3.

Durkin entered in relief of sophomore Evan Steele (3.0 IP, 4 runs, 3 earned, 7 hits, 5 strikeouts, 2 walks), who was 3-for-5 with a homer, 4 RBI and 3 runs in Friday's 10-6 win vs. Jefferson, and blanked the Golden Knights the rest of the way.

He struck out the side in the fourth, pitched around a leadoff error in the fifth and a leadoff single in the sixth, and struck out two in a 1-2-3 seventh.

The Warriors tied it in the bottom of the fifth as senior C Steven Zimmerman, Jr. singled, Kauffman walked and Zimmerman scored on a sacrifice fly by Rishel.

In the seventh, Cina singled but was caught stealing before Zimmerman reached on an error. Renaud ended it with a two-out, two-run homer to left off reliever Caleb Gregg, who replaced starter Greg Musk (6.0 IP, 4 runs, 7 hits, 7 strikeouts, 2 walks).