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Tom Kelly
15
Winner TCNJ TCNJ 14-2
5
Penn St.-Abington PENN ST. 10-10
Winner
TCNJ TCNJ
14-2
15
Final
5
Penn St.-Abington PENN ST.
10-10
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
TCNJ TCNJ 0 6 3 1 4 0 0 1 0 15 15 1
Penn St.-Abington PENN ST. 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 5 7 4

W: Kelly, Tom (1-0) L: T. Dipatri (0-2)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Barry Beal

No. 14 Baseball Pounds Penn St. Abington, 15-5

JENKINTOWN, Pa. – The No. 14 TCNJ baseball team continued its winning ways on Tuesday afternoon, earning a 15-5 victory in non-conference action at Penn State Abington. The Lions are now winners of seven straight games.
 
Eight TCNJ batters had hits, and five of them had at least two hits. Jacob Simon and Matt Giacose each had three hits. Simon homered, doubled and had three RBIs. Giacose doubled twice.
 
TCNJ (14-2) scored six runs in the top of the second inning. Giacose hit one of those doubles to move Gary Otten to third, and they both moved up another base on an error. That was the first of four doubles in a row for the Lions.
 
Chris Reeder followed with a double to left to score Giacose to make it 2-0. Avery Epstein hit a ground rule double to left to trade placed with Reeder to make it 3-0, and Danny Borup ended the run of doubles to score Epstein.
 
With the score 4-0, Simon was hit by a pitch to put runners at first and second. After the second out of the inning, both runners moved up on a wild pitch. Tommy McCarthy reached on an error to bring home both runners to cap the inning at 6-0.
 
Simon hit a three-run homer in the third to extend the lead to 9-0. Reeder gave the Lions a 10-0 lead by singling home Ryan Fischer in the fourth inning.
 
Ahead by double digits, the TCNJ offense kept coming. Borup led off with an infield single, and Simon doubled him to third. David Cardona III walked to load the bases, and the inning seemed to stall with two outs, the second coming on a sacrifice fly from Otten to score Borup to make it 11-0. TCNJ used some poor defense from Penn State Abington to score three more runs, though. Epstein singled home Reeder in the eighth for the 15th run.
 
Borup, Reeder and Epstein were the three Lions with two hits.
 
TCNJ pitching had plenty of run support, but four Lions' pitchers still combined to hold down Abington. Tom Kelly earned his first career victory, striking out seven in six innings. Joseph Felipe, Josh deDufour and Yariel Levin each pitched an inning without allowing an earned run.
 
The Lions move back into conference play on Thursday at Montclair State.
 
 
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