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R-Jr. DH PJ Van Orman was 3-for-4 with 2 doubles, a walk, 3 RBI and 2 runs and was one of 6 Warriors with multi-hit games vs. IUP on Sunday.

Warriors Baseball Finishes 4-0 Weekend with 17-2 Win vs. IUP

2/25/2018 12:00:00 AM

Box Score

DINWIDDIE, Va. - Junior outfielder Zarley Cina, redshirt junior DH PJ Van Orman and sophomore outfielder Carson Freeman had three hits each and East Stroudsburg University hit four more home runs, posting a 17-2 win over IUP in non-conference baseball on Sunday to finish a 4-0 weekend.

ESU (5-3), which has won its last five, had a .408 batting average, 62 hits including 14 doubles and 13 home runs, and scored 56 runs in four games in Dinwiddie - 10-6 vs. Jefferson on Friday, and 23-4 and 6-4 vs. Saint Rose on Saturday.

The Warriors held their opposition to 16 runs, with sophomore left-hander Tyler Stafursky (4.1 IP, 2 runs, 3 hits, 3 strikeouts, 6 walks), redshirt freshman Nate Fiala (3.2 IP, 0 hits, 6 strikeouts) and senior Nick DiEva (1.0 IP, 1 strikeout) combining on a three-hitter on Sunday.

Cina hit his third homer of the weekend and fifth of the season, senior 1B Laine Renaud hit his fourth of the weekend - including a walk-off in Saturday's nightcap vs. Saint Rose, Freeman hit his second of the year and senior catcher Steven Zimmerman, Jr. went deep for the first time this season.

Zimmerman, a two-time All-PSAC East selection and preseason NCBWA All-Atlantic Region second team catcher, moves into a tie for third in school history with 17 home runs, two from the school record of 19 set by All-America outfielder and MLB Draft pick Chris Knott (2011-14).

Cina was 11-for-18 with seven RBI and eight runs in the leadoff spot in the four-game set, and Renaud was 8-for-18 with 15 RBI and seven runs.

Six Warriors had multi-hit games vs. IUP, as ESU scored 15 of its 17 runs from the fifth through eighth innings.

After a two-run third, ESU scored six in the fifth, two each in the sixth and seventh, and put it away with five in the eighth.

Cina was 3-for-5 with his home run, 2 RBI and 2 runs, Van Orman was 3-for-4 with two doubles, a walk, 3 RBI and 2 runs, and Freeman was 3-for-6 with a double, homer, 4 RBI and 2 runs.

Freshman 3B Brock Kauffman was 2-for-4 with three walks to reach base five times and scored 4 runs. Zimmerman was 2-for-5 with a homer, two walks, 3 RBI and 2 runs, and senior OF Charles Edwards was 2-for-2 with a run after entering for Cina.

ESU had 18 hits and drew 12 walks and an HBP for 31 baserunners. The Warriors had 33 baserunners in a seven-inning game in the 23-4 win vs. Saint Rose in Saturday's opener.

For the weekend, ESU had 96 baserunners and a .513 on-base percentage and .757 slugging percentage.

IUP (0-7) used nine pitchers in the last of its four games in Dinwiddie. The Crimson Hawks played ranked opponents in their first six games of the season - a three-game set at No. 21 UNC Pembroke, followed by a 5-4 loss vs. No. 6 St. Thomas Aquinas and 13-2 and 1-0 losses vs. No. 2 West Chester, the defending NCAA Division II champion.
 
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