GREENSBORO, N.C. – Scoring in the first six innings and pounding out 18 hits, the Lycoming College baseball team exploded for a 16-3 win over Greensboro College to yield a split after a 4-3 10-inning setback in the first game of the doubleheader on Sunday, Feb. 19, at Ted Leonard Park.
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Leadoff hitter, first-year
Nick Reeder (Montoursville, Pa./Montoursville Area) paced the Warriors (1-2 overall) in the second game, going 4-for-5 with a double and three runs, as all but one spot in the lineup yielded at least one hit. Junior
Braden Campbell (Centerville, Utah/Cooper Hills) went 3-for-5 with a double, a run and three RBI, sophomore
Jake Schilling (Levittown, Pa./Pennsbury) went 1-for-1 with a RBI, two runs and three walks, first-year right fielder
Matt Worth (Williamsport, Pa./Loyalsock Township) went 2-for-4 with two runs and two RBI, first-year catcher
Cameron Bailey (Mercersburg, Pa./James Buchanan) went 2-for-5 with a double, a homer, two runs and two RBI, junior
Joey Trout (North East, Md./Saint Elizabeth (Del.)) went 2-for-3 with two doubles, two runs and three RBI and first-year
Zach Kudlacik (Coatesville, Pa./Coatesville Area) went 2-for-4 with two runs and an RBI.
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The Warriors jumped out to a 2-0 lead as Schilling had an RBI single and first-year
Nick Hoheb (Brick, N.J./Brick Township) doubled in the first inning. The Pride tied the game in the bottom half of the inning, but a homer from Bailey reopened the floodgates in the second. A double play drove in a run and a double steal helped Kudlacik make it home to make it 5-2.
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In the third, the Warriors tacked on five more runs, with Bailey doubling to center before Trout doubled in two runs. Kudlacik scored Trout with a single and a Campbell single drove across the fifth run of the inning. Another Trout double made it 11-2 in the fourth. The Pride cut the gap to eight in the bottom half of the frame, but two-RBI singles from Worth and Campbell in the next two innings rounded out the scoring.
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First-year
Evan Nordeen (Leesburg, Va./Loudon County) (1-0) earned the win, allowing five hits and two runs in the short start. He struck out four. First-year
Zachary Pleska (Salem, Ohio/Columbiana) struck out three and walked three in two scoreless innings to close out the win.
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Gavin Fleming led the Pride, going 2-for-2. N Ste took the loss, allowing six hits and five runs in 1 2/3 innings.
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In the first game, Greensboro came back from a 3-1 deficit in the ninth, scoring the tying run with two outs in the inning before scoring in the 10
th for a 4-3 win.
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The Warriors pounded out nine hits in the game, with Schilling going 2-for-5 with a double and RBI and Hoheb going 2-for-4 with a run and first-year
Gehrig Blanchard (Upper Saddle River, N.J./Northern Highlands Regional) went 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI.
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Greensboro took an early lead with a run in the first, but Blanchard delivered a two-RBI double in the second and Schilling doubled in the fifth to make it 3-1.
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The Pride scored a pair of runs in the ninth, tying the game on a bases loaded walk before winning thanks to the international tiebreaker in the bottom of the tenth, with the runner on second moving to third on a sac before scoring on a single to left by Adam Weber.
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Weber led the Pride, going 5-for-6 with two runs. Stephen Dunlow (1-0) earned the win, allowing a hit and striking out three in two scoreless innings.
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Campbell started, going four innings, allowing two hits, a run and three walks. He struck out three. First-year
Noah Miller (Winter Springs, Fla./Winter Springs) was charged with the loss, allowing a hit and a run in one inning of work.
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The Warriors get back on the field on Friday, Feb. 24, when they head to Ripken Experience in Aberdeen, Md., for a 3 p.m. game with Swarthmore.
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