ESU Baseball (vs. Ashland, Davis and Elkins)

FT. MYERS, Fla. – East Stroudsburg University used late-inning rallies to beat Ashland, 8-7, and tie Davis and Elkins, 11-11, in a pair of baseball games at Taylor Park Sunday.

The Warriors came back from a 6-0 deficit against Ashland with three runs in the fifth inning and four runs in the sixth and then won the game with a seventh-inning run. Matt Harmic singled to lead off the seventh and then raced all the way around to score on Bryan Yagel’s single to deep rightfield.

Singles by PJ Worsnick and Steve Harris and Tadgh LaBar’s double produced the runs in the fifth. Yagel, Joe Sobeski and Worsnick all had doubles and Ryan Hatfield and LaBar singles during the sixth-inning rally.

Gordy Kocher pitched the complete game, allowing seven hits and four earned runs, to gain the victory. Harmic and Yagel were 2-for-3 and LaBar, Worsnick and Hatfield all 2-for-4.

In the second game, ESU trailed Davis and Elkins, 11-2, entering the bottom of the seventh and tallied nine runs to tie the score. The game was called because of a three-hour rule.

Nick Farkas drove in the ninth and game-tying run with a double and also had a run-producing single during the outburst. Yagel drove in two runs with a double and Harmic two runs with a single. Ryan Hatfield belted a triple to bring home one run and Tadgh LaBar and Joe Sobeski had RBI singles.

Yagel was 3-for-4, Farkas 2-for-2 and Hatfield 2-for-3.

The Warriors, now 5-2-1, will play Franklin Pierce in a doubleheder today beginning at 11 a.m.

(1st Game)

East Stroudsburg 000 034 1 8-13-3

Ashland 300 301 0 7- 7-1

Gordy Kocher and Joe Sobeski; Andrew Niederst, Dustin Farnsworth (6),

Ryan Hartzell (7) and Nathan Holmes. LP – Hartzell

2B – ES, Tadgh LaBar, Bryan Yagel, Joe Sobeski, PJ Worsnick; A, Corey Christopher

3B – A, Christopher

Records: ESU 5-2, Ashland 12-5

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(2nd Game)

Davis and Elkins 301 120 4 11-18-3

East Stroudsburg 101 000 9 11-10-2

(tie, called at the end of seven innings because of three-hour rule)

Nathan Haskiell, George Wagner (7), Travis Digruttolo (7), Josh Ebersole (7) and

Dave Walters; Ryan Amey, Matt DelGuidice (3), Craig Whitten (5), Troy Hayes (7),

Bryan Yagel (7) and P.J. Worsnick

2B – DE, Lucas Taylor, Zack Swisher; ES, Yagel, Nick Farkas

3B – ES, Yagel, Ryan Hatfield

Record: ESU 5-2-1