The
Delaware Valley College baseball team improved to 11-5 overall and a
perfect 5-0 in the Freedom Conference as the Aggies swept a doubleheader
from visiting King's College at Latshaw Field. Delaware Valley pulled out
a 5-3 victory in the first game and took the nightcap, 13-8.
The Aggies have now won eight straight
games, including seven over the last six days. They are four short of the
school record of 12 consecutive wins set on two occasions. The Monarchs,
who just came off winning two of three games from defending Freedom
Conference champion DeSales University, fell to 7-6 overall and 2-3 in the
conference.
The first game saw Delaware Valley jump
out to a 3-0, first-inning lead thanks to three hits and a King's error.
Sean Meister doubled and scored one batter later on Mark Roth's RBI
single. Roth later scored on a Monarch miscue and his younger brother
Travis singled in the third run.
The Aggies added to the lead in the
second inning as Ryan Burza and A.J. DeNardo opened with back-to-back
singles and moved up a base each on Meister's sacrifice bunt. Mark Roth
brought Burza home with a sacrifice fly.
King's made it a one-run ballgame in
the third Adam Tkaczyk and Dan Buckley had back-to-back singles and they
both scored two batters later on Jason Siebert's single. Nick Sorino then
delivered a two-out double to score the third run of the inning.
The Monarchs threatened again in the
fifth as they loaded the bases with one out. However, Delaware Valley
starter Zeke Boren got Sorino to ground into an inning-ending double play.
The Aggies then picked up an insurance run in the sixth as Mike Gargiulo
reached on a King's error and scored on Meister's two-out triple to right
field.
Boren improved to 2-1 as he allowed
three runs and four hits over seven innings. Meister went 2-for-2 with a
double and a triple, while Travis Roth also had a multiple-hit game with
two hits in three at-bats.
Matt Loringer took the loss for the
Monarchs and fell to 1-2 despite allowing just two earned runs in six
innings of work. Four separate players had hits for King's in the game.
The nightcap saw Delaware Valley rally
from 4-0 and 6-5 deficits to post the five-run victory. King's scored
three runs before an out was recorded in the first inning Sorino was hit
by a pitch with the bases loaded and Charlie Jenkins knocked in a pair
with a single to right-center. The Monarchs upped the lead in the second
as Tkaczyk scored on a passed ball.
However, Delaware Valley fought back
and tied the game with four runs in the third inning. Meister drew a
bases-loaded walk and Mark Roth followed with a two-run to single center.
Bret Thiel made it 4-4 with an RBI single to left field to bring home
Meister
The Aggies then put the game away
with a five-spot in the sixth. DeNardo doubled in one run and Mike
Gargiulo doubled in a pair with a shot to left field.
Keiffer pitched just one-third of an
inning but picked up the win in relief and improved to 2-0 on the year.
DeNardo notched his second save with two innings of work. DeNardo and
Thiel each went 3-for-3 while Gargiulo, Meister and Mark Roth knocked in
two runs apiece.
Jenkins went 3-for-4 with a double and
five RBIs for the Monarchs. Siebert added three hits and two runs scored.
Rob Medlock fell to 2-1 as he started and went four innings, allowing
eight runs (four earned) and nine hits.
King's will return to action Wednesday
when the Monarchs travel to Scranton to face Marywood University at 3:00
p.m.
