Baseball Bangs Out 21 Hits in 13-4 Win over Penn State-Brandywine

VERO BEACH, Fla. – The Bridgewater State University baseball team improved to 4-2 on the season as the Bears banged out 21 hits in a 13-4 victory over Penn State-Brandywine in Vero Beach, Florida on Wednesday.

Sean Riley (Fairhaven, Mass.), Craig Stewart (Brockton, Mass.), Trevor Lawson (Easton, Mass.) and David Pierce (East Bridgewater, Mass.) led BSU's 21-hit attack.  Riley went 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles, a stolen base, three runs scored and five RBI. Stewart finished 4-for-5 as he homered, doubled, scored two runs and drove in three.  Lawson had four hits in five at bats and scored a run, while Pierce went 3-for-6 with two runs and an RBI.

Adam Mullen (Fairhaven, Mass.) went all nine innings for the Bears in his collegiate debut.  Mullen (1-0) gave up four runs on nine hits with eight strikeouts.  He did not walk anyone. Through their first six games, BSU pitchers have walked just seven batters in 48 innings.

Bridgewater opened the scoring with four runs in the top of the first on an RBI single by Riley, a sacrifice fly off the bat of Ian Williams (Taunton, Mass.) and a two-run homer by Stewart.  The Bears added a run in the third to take a 5-3 lead as Stewart doubled and a scored on James Gilmore's (Mansfield, Mass.) RBI single.

Bridgewater would put the game out of reach with three runs in the fourth inning and three more in the fifth.  Riley doubled home two runs in the fourth and scored on Stewart's RBI single.  Riley added another two-run double in the fifth and would score his third run of the game on Williams' run-scoring single.

The Bears tacked on two more runs in the ninth on an RBI ground out by Pierce and a run-scoring single by Kevin Sugermeyer (Hampden, Mass.).

Matt DeBarberie (Drexel Hill, Pa.) went 3-for-4 with a triple, two stolen bases and two runs scored to lead Penn State-Brandywine.  Anthony Kyne (Newton Square, Pa.) chipped in with a pair of hits and two runs batted in for the Lions who dropped to 1-5 on the young season.

Bridgewater will take on Elizabethtown College in a doubleheader on Thursday starting at 10:00 AM.