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ESU-Scranton Baseball

SCRANTON – Troy Hayes, a freshman from East Stroudsburg High School, pitched six shutout innings and Tadgh LaBar belted a homer and four singles as East Stroudsburg University clinched a winning baseball season by trouncing Scranton, 17-9, Thursday.

The Warriors are now 22-18-1 with only two games remaining, a doubleheader at Millersville Saturday. Scranton ended its season with a 6-25 record.

Hayes made his first start of the season and gave up seven hits and two walks while striking out three in gaining the win.

LaBar went 5-for-7 with five RBIs to power a 25-hit ESU attack. He had run-producing singles in the second and fourth innings, a three-run homer in the fifth and singles in the eighth and ninth.

Four other Warriors had four hits apiece. Ryan Hatfield was 3-for-5 with a homer and double while Brett Reynolds, Bryan Yagel and PJ Worznick were all 3-for-6. Yagel drove in three runs to lift his school-record RBI total to 62. Ryan Conrad also belted a solo homer.

The Royals scored their eight runs in the final three innings with Mike Cummings hitting a three-run homer in the seventh and John Robertson a grand slam in the ninth.

East Stroudsburg 041 340 131 17-25-0

Scranton 000 000 314 8-12-4

Troy Hayes, Matt Del Guidice (7), Matt Harmic (9) and PJ Worznick,

Eric Lenz (6); Pat Reed, Curt Camoni (6) and Ryan Matlosz. WP – Hayes, LP – Reed

2B – ES, Brett Reynolds, Ryan Hatfield, Bryan Yagel, Nick Farkas

HR – ES, Tadgh LaBar 5^th (two on), Hatfield 2^nd (none on), Ryan Conrad 9^th (none on); Scranton – Mike Cummings 7^th (two on), John Robertson 9^th (three on)

Records: ESU 22-18-1, Scranton 6-25