Box Score CARY, NC – Monmouth University Baseball (2-2) dropped its final game of opening weekend in Cary, NC to Penn State University (3-1) on Sunday afternoon, 14-2. Seven different Hawks recorded hits in the defeat.
Penn State took a 5-0 lead after two, totaling four runs on five hits in the second. Monmouth got one back in the third, with
Dennis Filipovski (Ormond Beach, FL/Seabreeze/St. Petersburg College) driving in a run for the second consecutive game to cut it to 5-1. PSU plated two in the fifth before breaking it open with a five-run sixth, highlighted by Gavin Homer's two-RBI double.
JP Walsh (Spring Brook Township, PA/North Pocono) knocked in a run in the seven with a ground out to score MU's second run.
NOTES AND QUOTES
"Tough one today; we fell behind early and couldn't keep them off the board. Over the course of the four games, definitely a lot of positives come out of the weekend. We played some excellent defense, pitched well and showed some toughness during our first three games. We played some new guys; it was especially nice to see Filipovski, Jenkins, Catalano, Winstead, and Padden get their first hits as Hawks. All in all a solid weekend. Looking forward to next weekend." – Head Coach
Dean Ehehalt
-All seven of Monmouth's hits came from different players.
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Harry Padden recorded his first collegiate hit.
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Ryan Bearse,
Cory Hiltz and
Dante Ciaramella all made their MU debuts on the mound.
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Johnny Zega and
Matt Graber both concluded weekends in which they had a hit in all four games.
-Monmouth concludes the weekend having made one error in four games, a .993 fielding perctentage.
NUMBERS CRUNCH
-Monmouth committed no errors for the third time in four games, compared to Penn State's two.
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Stephen Aldrich took the loss in his first start of the year, allowing five runs,
-Conor Larkin got the win for PSU, allowing no earned runs through 5.2.
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Ryan Bearse fired 1.1 one-hit shutout innings in his collegiate debut.
UP NEXT
-The Hawks are back in action on Friday in Spartanburg, SC against USC Upstate at 4:00 p.m.
