BLOOMSBURG, Pa. – Penn College totaled 23 runs – assisted by six home runs – in a North Eastern Athletic Conference doubleheader sweep of Lancaster Bible College Saturday at Central Columbia High School. The Wildcats took game one, 6-4, and won the nightcap, 17-3.
Penn College improved to 4-9 overall, 2-0 NEAC, while the Chargers fell to 3-8, 0-2.
In game one,
The Wildcats pounced on a 4-0 lead in the second inning with consecutive round-trippers from
Rylan Whitmyer,
Alex Zelger (two-run shot), and
Jacob Carles, and made it 5-0 when Samuel Zeilger hit a RBI single to left in the third.
The Chargers added a run in the fourth and sixth innings before a wild pitch plated Zelger in the sixth to make it 6-2. LBC made a late push in the seventh with two runs but couldn't get any closer.
Zelger led Penn College with two hits at the plate.
Nathan Holt improved to 2-2 after a complete-game effort. He allowed four runs (just one earned) on eight hits, with 10 strikeouts and two walks.
In game two,
After LBC pushed a run across in the first, Penn College answered with 10 consecutive runs.
Carles smacked his second home run of the day, a two-run blast in the first, and brought in a run with a single in the second to make it 3-0. Whitmyer's single to right in the third and Carles two-run double in the same inning gave PCT a 6-1 lead.
Alex Flicker belted a three-run homer in the fourth and
Richard Lennon's sacrifice fly to right in the fifth put Penn College ahead 10-1.
After Bible got a run back in the top of the seventh, Kittle launched a solo shot to center and Flicker singled to left to make it 12-2.
Christian Perna, Kittle, Flicker, and
Joe Gaumer all picked up RBIs in the eighth.
Kittle paced Penn College at the plate with four hits – including a pair of doubles – and Carles and Flicker both picked up three hits and 5 RBIs each.
Devon Sanders picked up his first win this season and improved to 1-3. He fired eight inning, allowed two earned runs on 11 hits, with seven strikeouts and no walks.
Penn College concludes its three-game series against LBC Sunday, 1 p.m., at Central Columbia.
