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PITT-JOHNSTOWN MOUNTAIN CATS
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Ali Single
0
Slippery Rock ROCK-B 14-6, 5-4 PSAC-W
4
Winner Pitt-Johnstown UPJ-B 14-11, 10-7 PSAC-W
Slippery Rock ROCK-B
14-6, 5-4 PSAC-W
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Final
4
Pitt-Johnstown UPJ-B
14-11, 10-7 PSAC-W
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Slippery Rock ROCK-B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2
Pitt-Johnstown UPJ-B 0 0 1 3 0 0 X 4 7 0

W: Heid, Dylan (6-1) L: Luke Trueman (2-3)

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Slippery Rock ROCK-B 14-7, 5-5 PSAC-W
5
Winner Pitt-Johnstown UPJ-B 15-11, 11-7 PSAC-W
Slippery Rock ROCK-B
14-7, 5-5 PSAC-W
2
Final
5
Pitt-Johnstown UPJ-B
15-11, 11-7 PSAC-W
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Slippery Rock ROCK-B 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 0
Pitt-Johnstown UPJ-B 2 0 0 1 2 0 X 5 5 0

W: Colledge, Joel (3-3) L: Christian Seelhorst (2-2) S: Hammerle, Austin (3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Mountain Cats Sweep Slippery Rock, 4-0 and 5-2 to start PSAC Series

Johnstown, PA

Heid_DylanPitt-Johnstown got a career-high 15-strikeout from Dylan Heid and an inside-the-park homer from Owen McKeever in a 4-0 win over Slippery Rock in Friday's PSAC Western Division opener at Sargent Stadium at the Point.  Pitt-Johnstown completed the sweep and improved to 15-11 overall and 11-7 in conference-play with a 5-2 victory in the nightcap behind strong pitching from Joel Colledge and Austin Hammerle.
 
In game one, Heid struck out 15 in the complete-game, and Pitt-Johnstown used timely hitting to open up a 4-0 lead.
 
Pitt-Johnstown opened the scoring with a run in the bottom of the third.  McKeever led off with a single, moved to second on Alex Glumac's sacrifice bunt, and scored on McKeever_OwenJake Ansell's single to center.
 
The Mountain Cats added three more in the fourth.  Asher Corl followed Chase Vargo's triple with an RBI single to center, and McKeever's two-run inside-the-park homer to the gap in left center made it 4-0.
 
Heid improved to 6-1 after holding Slippery Rock scoreless on six hits, one double and five singles in the complete-game.  Heid struck out a career-high 15 and didn't allow a walk.
 
Colledge_JoelMcKeever went 2-for-3 with an inside-the-park homer and two RBI, and Corl had two hits and drove in one for the Mountain Cats.  Ansell singled and had an RBI, while Vargo tripled and Smith doubled.
 
In game two, Pitt-Johnstown erased an early one run deficit with five unanswered runs to complete the sweep with the 5-2 win.
 
Abraham Mow's lead-off homer to right-center in the top of the first off of Colledge gave Slippery rock a 1-0 lead, but the Mountain Cats came right back with two in their half of the third.  Smith's sacrifice fly scored Ansell to tie it, and Lennox Pugh's single through the left side chased home Dylan Broderick, who doubled, to make it 2-1.
 
Hammerle_Austin.JPGThe Mountain Cats got another run in the bottom of the fourth on Glumac's sacrifice fly that plated Vargo.
 
Pitt-Johnstown loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the fifth on three straight hit-by-pitches and got an RBI single from Matt Reese and a sacrifice fly from Vargo to increase it to 5-1.
 
Mow added another solo homer in the seventh off of Hammerle to cut it to 5-2, but that was as close as Slippery Rock would get.
 
Colledge got the win to even his record at 3-3 after holding The Rock to one run on six hits over the first 4.2 innings.  Colledge struck out five and walked one.  Hammerle allowed one run on three hits over the final 2.1 innings to earn his third save of the season.
 
Smith, Pugh, Reese, and Vargo all drove in runs for the Mountain Cats, while Broderick doubled and scored a pair of runs.
 
With the losses, Slippery Rock fell to 14-7 overall and 5-5 in the PSAC West.
 
The Mountain Cats wrap-up the series against The Rock in Slippery Rock on Saturday, then travel to Gannon to open a four-game home-and-home PSAC series on Friday.
 
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