LEWISBURG, Pa. – Penn College earned its second trip, in three years, to the North Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Championship with a 10-9 win over Penn State Abington Saturday at Bucknell University.

The Wildcats, the No. 2 seed, will take on No. 3 Penn State Berks Sunday at 10 a.m. Berks is unbeaten in the tournament and needs to win one came to win the title. Penn College must beat Berks twice. The second game, if necessary, will be played at 1 p.m.

Because Penn College is in its final provisional year for NCAA Division III membership, Berks has already earned the conference's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Tournament regardless of tomorrow's outcome.

Abington took an early 1-0 lead with a run in the bottom of the first inning before the Wildcats answered with four in the top of the second inning.

Noah Esposito's double to center scored Richard Lennon to even the game at 1-1 before Cody Cline gave PCT a 2-1 lead with a single that plated Cole Hofmann. Ben Flicker's single to left center brought in both Nathaniel Lowe and Esposito to put Penn College ahead 4-1.

The Lions pulled with one with a pair of runs in the third but Flicker's RBI fielder's choice in the fourth made it 5-3.

Abington evened the contest at 5-5 with two runs in the fourth but Penn College took the lead for good with five runs in the fifth inning.

Two Abington errors in the fifth accounted for three runs, while RBI singles by Lennon and Esposito brought in the other two.

An error by Penn College in the sixth made it 10-6 before Abington made a late run in the final frame. A controversial bases loaded balk made it 10-7 before a two run single made it a one run game with just one out. Reliever Devon Sanders got out of the jam and the inning, with fly out to center and a foul out to first.

Esposito led Penn College at the plate with three hits, while Flicker and Brittan Kittle each picked up a pair of hits.

Kyle Fox threw the first three innings for Penn College, allowing three earned run on five hits, three strikeouts and one walk. Andrew Gilbert picked up the win with 4.1 innings of work, allowing no earned runs on four hits, one strikeout and one walk. Sanders earned his second save with 1.2 innings of work, allowing three earned on three hits, with two strikeouts and one walk.