Here is your Patriot League Recap for April 10th.
Game 1: Army 8 Navy 6
Game 2: Army 11 Navy 3
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Matt Fouch and Steve Cummings turned strong pitching performances and Steve May collected four hits and six runs batted in, leading Army to a doubleheader sweep of arch-rival Navy, Saturday afternoon at Max Bishop Stadium. With the victories Army continued its recent domination of the Midshipmen, claiming their seventh consecutive series "star."
Army, which has defeated Navy in 12 of the teams’ last 13 games and 23 of 27 dating back to 2004, received a pair of stellar starting pitching performances from its two senior left-handers on Saturday.
Game 1: Bucknell 4 Holy Cross 3
Game 2: Holy Cross 6 Bucknell 4
LEWISBURG, Pa. – An impressive start by Trey Frahler in game one and a pair of home runs by Andrew Brouse highlighted the Bucknell baseball team’s first home Patriot League doubleheader of the season on Saturday as the Bison split with Holy Cross at sunny Depew Field. Bucknell won game one 4-3 behind Frahler’s 6.2 strong innings of work. The Crusaders earned the split with a 6-4 victory in the nightcap.
Brouse hit an inside-the-park home run in game one and a traditional home run in game two, upping his Patriot League-leading total to nine. He now has 22 home runs in his career, just two shy of equaling the program record. He was 3-for-5 with two runs scored and three RBIs on the day.
Bucknell Recap
Holy Cross Recap
Game 1: Lehigh 2 Lafayette 1
Game 2: Lehigh 7 Lafayette 5
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – For the first time since 2006, the Lehigh baseball team swept a doubleheader from rival Lafayette as the Mountain Hawks took two games from the Leopards Saturday at the Baseball Field on Goodman Campus. Senior Andrew Berger threw a complete-game three-hitter as Lehigh won the opener 2-1 while the Mountain Hawk offense delivered five key two-out hits that led to seven runs in a 7-5 Lehigh victory. With the sweep Lehigh improves to 12-16 overall and 4-2 in the Patriot League.
“It’s just Patriot League games in some regard, but it’s Lafayette so our guys knew there would be a little extra energy on both sides,” said Lehigh head coach Sean Leary. “The most important thing I saw today was a gritty, competitive atmosphere from our guys and an attitude from our senior class.”
