WINTER HAVEN, FL - Penn State Fayette slugged out 15 hits and used a 10 run sixth inning to record a 15-9 victory over the Vassar College Baseball team at the RussMatt Invitational on Thursday afternoon. The Nittany Lions improve to 3-5 overall while the Brewers fall to 4-3 on the season.
Fayette scored first in the top of the first as a double play scored Dylan Bohna, who reached on a leadoff single, before junior
Reid Lapekas drove in senior
Andrew Kanellis in the bottom of the inning to tie the game at one apiece.
The Brewers scored twice in the second as senior
Adam Talwalkar laced a double to lead off and then scored on an infield single from sophomore
Jack Story. Story then stole second and third and was knocked in on a RBI groundout from sophomore
Ricardo Reyna.
The Nittany Lions tallied a run in the third and then the fourth to tie the game at three as Cade Warrick doubled home Sawyer D'Andrea in the third and Bohna's sacrifice fly in the fourth scored Johnny Iannou.
Vassar struck for four runs in the bottom of the fifth as sophomore
Daniel Laderman plated Lapekas and senior
Ezra Caspi on a double to straightaway center field. Talwalkar then scored Laderman on a double of his own and pinch-runner freshman
Jensen Bergman was knocked in on a base hit from sophomore
Birch Herring-Jackson to take a 7-3 lead.
The big inning for Penn State Fayette came in the sixth as Braeden McKnight, D'Andrea, Ethan Rendulic and Josh Burns all drove in two runs along with a RBI single from Bohna to put the Nittany Lions ahead 13-7 as PSF tallied eight hits in the inning.
Fayette tacked on two more runs in the seventh as Rendulic scored D'Andrea with a RBI double and then scored on a VC error. In the bottom half of the inning, senior
Christian Baaki drove a leadoff double to center followed by three straight hit by pitches to plate a run. Caspi added a second run in the inning on a sacrifice fly to cut the lead to 15-9 but AJ Segarra held the Brewers scoreless in the final two innings to close the game.
Junior
Michael Came started for Vassar as he went three innings, allowing five hits, three runs, three walks and struck out two. Freshman
Cade Terada-Herzer and senior
Zach Magee each tallied two scoreless innings in relief and combined for five strikeouts. Junior
Joe Sabo took the loss in relief as he allowed eight runs on six hits.
Noah Matthews earned the win for the Nittany Lions as he threw 6.1 innings and allowed nine hits, nine runs (six earned), three walks, seven hit by pitches and struck out one. Segarra threw 2.2 scoreless innings in relief and allowed just two hits, one walk and struck out two.
Laderman finished with a 3-for-5 day while driving in two runs while Talwalkar added two hits and a RBI. Nine different players tallied a run scored and eight different players had a run batted in.
Seven different Nittany Lions had two hits in the contest as Rendulic drove in three runs while Burns, Bohna, D'Andrea and McKnight each finished with two RBI.
Vassar will take on Thomas (ME) and Illinois Tech on Sunday afternoon with the game against the Terriers scheduled for 2:30 p.m. and the matchup with the Scarlet Hawks scheduled for 6:00 p.m. at NorthEast Regional Park.
