Box Score FORT PIERCE, Fla. – The Arcadia University baseball team surrendered five runs in the bottom of the second inning as it dropped a 7-2 decision to Penn State-Behrend Wednesday morning, dropping the Knights record to 1-5 this season. The Lions evened their record at 3-3 with their second win over Arcadia in as many days.
Sophomore Matt Wolczko (Apollo, Pa.) drove in the first two runs for the Lions with a bases loaded double, and then scored behind junior Tommy Kocur (Erie, Pa.) on sophomore Alex Margraf's (Erie, Pa.) single, giving Behrend a 4-0 lead. Margraf then scored on freshman Bandon Bergstrom's (Pittsburgh, Pa.) single to cap the scoring in the inning, and later drove in a pair of runs on his double in the seventh.
Senior
David Jacobs (Havre de Grace, Md.) single to lead off the second, advanced to third on classmate
Jay Zehring's (Manassas, Va.) double and then scored on sophomore
George Pagan's (Old Bridge, N.J.) ground out to short to put the Knights ahead 1-0. Junior
Andonis Yiantsos (Voorhees, N.J.) reached on an error to lead off the top of the seventh and scored on a single off the bat of senior
Elliott Freeman (Bangor, Pa.).
Junior Taylor Williams (Atlantic, Pa.) earned the decision for Behrend after allowing one run on three hits in 5.2 innings. Sophomore
Joseph Warren (Yardley, Pa.) took the loss on the hill for Arcadia after allowing five runs, three earned, on four hits in just two innings of work.
Zehring was 2-for-3 with a double and reached on an error in the first, while Jacobs finished 2-for-5 with a run scored.
The Knights will wrap up their spring break trip Wednesday with a 10 a.m. game against Norwich University.