WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – The Drew University baseball team dropped both ends of a Landmark Conference doubleheader at Lycoming College on Saturday.
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The Warriors (13-9, 5-2 LC) won the opener 13-1 in seven innings before capturing the second game 9-4.
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In the opener, senior
Anthony Diaz Jr. led off the game with a ground-rule double before coming around to score on a groundout. But Lycoming answered with two runs in each of the first three innings before breaking it open with seven runs over the fifth and sixth.
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Junior
Brandon Kobryn started on the mound for Drew and tossed 4 2/3 innings while freshmen
Matthew Nicholson and
Ryan Reynolds each pitched 2/3 of an inning in relief.
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Diaz helped the Rangers get on the scoreboard first again in the second game. He led off with a single, was bunted to second by freshman
Frank Master, and eventually scored on a wild pitch. But Lycoming tied it in the bottom of the first before scoring six in the third to go up 7-1.
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Drew answered with the next three runs to make it 7-4. In the fourth inning, fifth-year
Anthony Hernandez doubled and scored on a sacrifice fly from senior
Will Fritch in the fourth, and the Rangers pushed across two more runs on one hit and three errors in the fifth.
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Lycoming answered with what end up being the final two runs of the game in the bottom half.
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Diaz finished 2-for-3 in the nightcap while sophomore
Aidan Bauer worked 5 1/3 innings in relief, yielding just two runs on six hits while striking out four. Classmate
Graham Ross started and pitched 2 2/3 innings.
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The two sides wrap up their season series on Sunday with a single game starting at noon.
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