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Slippery Rock scored eight runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to erase a six-run deficit on earn a 13-11 win on Preston Falascino's walk-off three run homerun in Friday's PSAC West opener in Slippery Rock.  Slippery Rock completed the sweep and dropped the Mountain Cats to 7-35-1 overall and 7-18-1 in the PSAC West with a 16-3 victory in game two.
 
Pitt-Johnstown took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first in Friday's opener when Ernesto Rizzitano scored from third on Jake Nogalo's two out fielding error, but Slippery Rock came right back with two runs off of Mountain Cat starter Ken Gault in the bottom of the frame.
 
Run-producing base hits by Dillon Boyer and Luke Williams gave the lead back to Pitt-Johnstown in the third inning.
 
The Mountain Cats added two more runs in the fifth to increase the lead to 5-2.  Nate Negri and Sean Sleigh each doubled to start the inning and Mike Palkovitz drove home Negri with a base hit.  Sleigh then scored from third when Williams' grounded into a double play.
 
Alex Bell's solo homerun to center in The Rock's half of the fifth cut it to 5-3, but Pitt-Johnstown answered right back.  Another RBI single from Boyer, a sacrifice fly from Negri that scored Rizzitano, and an RBI base hit from Palkovitz that extended the lead to 8-3.
 
Slippery Rock cut it to on Ty Zimmerman's sixth inning two-run homer off of Mountain Cat reliever Tyler Black.
 
Pitt-Johnstown tacked on three more runs in the seventh to make it 11-5, but The Rock exploded for eight runs in the bottom of the inning, including Falascino's walk-off two-out three-run homer that gave Slippery Rock the 13-11 victory.
 
Boyer, Negri, and Palkovitz all had two hits and two RBI, while Rizzitano collected two hits, drove in one and scored four runs for the Mountain Cats.
 
Ryan Socol took the loss and dropped to 1-6 in relief after giving up four unearned runs in the Slippery Rock seventh inning.  Gault got the no-decision after holding The Rock to three runs on nine hits over the first 4.2 innings. 
 
In the nightcap, Nogalo's three-run homerun off of Brantley Rice, followed by Tyler Walters' solo shot in the second inning gave The Rock a 5-0 lead.
 
Negri got the Mountain Cats back in it with a three-run homer of his own in the Pitt-Johnstown third, but Slippery Rock added nine more runs over the next two innings to extend it to 14-3.
 
Negri accounted for all three Pitt-Johnstown runs with his three-run homer, while Rizzitano singled and doubled.
 
Brantley Rice fell to 0-5 after surrendering 10 runs (6 earned) on eight Slippery Rock hits over the first four innings.
 
With the sweep, Slippery Rock improved to 27-16 overall and 16-10 in the PSAC West.
 
The Mountain Cats will celebrate Senior Day and close out the 2015 season with a PSAC West doubleheader against Slippery Rock on Saturday starting at 4:30 p.m. at Point Stadium.