Box Score The Pitt-Johnstown baseball team dropped game one of their double head against the East Stroudsburg Warriors, 7-6 Saturday afternoon at the Cal Ripken complex. The Mountain Cats fell to 2-8 on the season and East Stroudsburg improved to 7-5.
 
East Stroudsburg got on the scoreboard first on Christian Rishel's sacrifice fly that scored Steven Zimmerman. The Warriors made it 2-0 in the first inning when P.J. Van Orman singled up the middle scoring Brock Kauffman.
 
Tanner Cook led off the top of the third inning with a double and came around to score on a Jack Shirk single.
 
After a Laine Renaud and Rishel single, Renaud would come around to score on an error to make it 3-1.
 
East Stroudsburg added two in the bottom of the fourth thanks to a Kauffman single that scored Brainy Rojas. Kauffman would later score when Renaud doubled to make it, 5-1.
 
After three straight one-out singles from Cook, Dylan Kerstetter and Shirk in the top of the fifth inning; the Mountain Cats pushed a run across when Dan Clark reached on a fielder's choice, to make it, 5-2.
 
In the top of the sixth inning, Pitt-Johnstown tied it up thanks to a Zach Zinn RBI single that scored Cam Gerhard and a two-RBI double from Kerstetter.
 
East Stroudsburg broke the tie in the bottom of the sixth inning when Zimmerman blasted a solo homerun to make it 6-5
 
Offensively, the Mountain Cats were led by Kerstetter who finished the day going 2-for-4 with a double and two RBI's. Tanner Cook went 2-for-3 with a double and two runs scored. Gerhard, Shirk and Clark each finished going 2-for-4.
 
Ben Foose got the start and no decision for Pitt-Johnstown. Foose pitched three innings giving up three runs, zero earned on five hits.
 
Foose was relieved by Shane Supanick who pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up two earned runs on four hits and striking out one. Eric Ford took the loss for the Mountain Cats. Ford went 1 1/3 innings giving up one run on one hit.
 
The Mountain Cats will conclude their series against East Stroudsburg at 3:30, before their home opener Friday at Point Stadium.