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Penn State Abington
BSB - Hightower
17
Winner DeSales DSU 4-1
3
Penn St.-Abington PSUA 0-2
Winner
DeSales DSU
4-1
17
Final
3
Penn St.-Abington PSUA
0-2
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
DeSales DSU 0 0 3 6 0 2 0 6 0 17 14 0
Penn St.-Abington PSUA 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 9 2

W: M. Hooker (2-0) L: Hightower, Brandon (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Abington Falls to DeSales at Diamond Invitational

Fayetteville, N.C. – The Penn State Abington baseball team dropped a non-conference contest to DeSales University on day two of the Diamond Invitational hosted by Methodist University on Saturday evening at Armstrong-Shelley Field.  The Nittany Lions were defeated by the Bulldogs, 17-3.
 
Score: DeSales 17, Penn State Abington 3
WP: Mike Hooker (2-0) | LP: Brandon Hightower (0-1)
Records: Penn State Abington (0-2) | DeSales (4-1)
Location: Fayetteville, N.C. (Armstrong-Shelley Field)
 
How It Happened
 
* Abington scored the game's first run in the bottom of the first to take an early 1-0.  Junior Josh McGee, who singled earlier in the inning, scored on a base hit to right field by senior Montana Milward.
 
* The score remained 1-0 until the top of the third inning when DeSales had three runners cross the plate.  Owen Fischl highlighted the inning with a two-run single as the Bulldogs grabbed a 3-1 lead.
 
* DeSales expanded its lead to 9-1 in the following inning with a six-run fourth inning. Travis Kerr and Jack Sague each drove in a pair of runs in the inning.  All six runs scored with two outs in the frame.
 
* The Bulldogs added two more runs in the sixth and plated six in the eighth to cap their scoring.
 
Inside the Numbers
 
* Junior Jake Fallers went 2-for-3 at the plate, including his first home run in an Abington uniform.  Fallers led the seventh inning off with a blast over the left field fence that led to a two-run inning for the Nittany Lions.
 
* McGee also had a multi-hit game as he finished the night 3-for-4 with a run and an RBI.  McGee drove in senior Sean Doherty in the seventh inning with a base hit through the left side.  Doherty doubled down the left field line prior to McGee's base knock.
 
* Milward went 2-for-4 with a base hit and double as he drove in the game's first run.
 
* Senior Brandon Hightower struck out a pair of batters in his start and as a result moved into seventh place on the all-time strikeout list with 95 career K's.
 
* For DeSales, Sague drove in a game-high five runners as he went 2-for-4 at the plate with a double and a triple.  Fischl finished 3-for-5 with three runs and three RBI, while JT Anderosky went 2-for-6 with two runs and three RBI.
 
* Mike Hooker (2-0) picked up his second win of the season for the Bulldogs as he struck out six batters in 5.2 innings of work.
 
All-Time Series
Tonight marked the fourth meeting between Abington and DeSales since the start of the 2017 season and the first since 2019.  The Nittany Lions are now 1-3 versus the Bulldogs in the all-time series.

Next Up
Abington will wrap up the Diamond Invitational on Sunday as the Nittany Lions face Neumann University in a non-conference contest.  First pitch is set for 11 a.m.

 
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