ABERDEEN, Md. - Graduate student
Shane Daly finished with five hits and four RBIs to lead the McDaniel College baseball team to a doubleheader sweep over Penn State Brandywine on Saturday at the Ripken Experience.
The Green Terror (3-3) have won three-straight, outscoring their opponents 31-7 in those three contests.
Daly totaled five hits, five runs scored, and four RBIs. He had two doubles, one home run and two stolen bases.
Game 1: McDaniel 16, Penn State Brandywine 0
The Green Terror plated eight runs in the first frame to take control of the game early. Daly began the scoring following a wild pitch; bases-loaded walks scored senior
Ben Davis, sophomore
Henry Novario and junior
DJ Stolba to make the score 4-0. Senior
Brady Goyne tacked on a sacrifice fly before Daly powered a home run into left field to put eight runs on the board in the first inning.
Five more runs came across to score in the second as Daly connected on a two-run single to score Stolba and sophomore
Anthony Cerone, increasing the McDaniel lead to 11-0. Another two-run hit from Davis plated Daly and junior
Shea McKenna for a 13-0 lead.
An error and two sacrifice flies plated the game's final three runs as McDaniel shut the door in a 16-0 win in the opener.
Daly and Davis had four RBIs each while Cerone, sophomore
Austin Sealing and senior
Zach Gaeta all mad multi-hit performances from the plate.
First year
Jack Kinsey earned the win in his first collegiate start, striking out three and walking three in 81 pitches while allowing only three hits in four scoreless innings.
Game 2: McDaniel 7, Penn State Brandywine 3
Sophomore
Thomas Mezzullo scored the first run in game two on a throwing error that allowed junior
Ethan Haddock to advance all the way to third base on a single. Haddock scored on an RBI-single from Cerone to make the score 2-0 in the second inning.
The Nittany Lions (2-2) scored their first run of the day in the third on an RBI double, McKenna answered in the bottom half of the inning to score Daly for a 3-1 lead. After a fifth-inning RBI single cut the Green Terror lead down to 3-2, McDaniel plated four runs in the bottom half to put the game away, highlighted by a two-run double from Davis.
McKenna and Davis each had a hit and two RBIs to lead the charge at the plate while Daly collected three hits in four at-bats, scoring twice and stealing a base. Mezzullo went 2-for-3 with two runs scored while Haddock and Cerone each had an RBI in the win.
First-year
Jason Seils earned the win in the first appearance of his career, tossing four innings and allowing only one earned run on five hits. First-year
Chase Shepard got the save, pitching three innings in relief and totaling four strikeouts and two walks.
McDaniel travels to Frederick Community College on Sunday for an in-state battle against Hood in a non-conference contest. First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m.