Penn State Behrend Lions Sweep Pitt-Greensburg in AMCC Action

The blue and white would sweep the Pitt-Greensburg Bobcats winning 2-0 and 7-1 in an AMCC double header on the Behrend diamond.

The Behrend Lions captured game one behind the pitching of David Koerbel (Pittsburgh, PA/Central Catholic). Koerbel would pitch a complete game two hitter in route to his sixth win of the season. The shutout was Koerbel's 24th win of his career making him the all time wins leader at Penn State Behrend.

Pitt-Greensburg would threaten in the top of the first as Matt Gouveia would be stranded at third. The Behrend Lions would also threaten in the bottom of the first as Jon Gray (State College, PA/State College) would reach on an hit-by-pitch to lead off the game. Ed Kessler (Pittsburgh, PA/Bethel Park) would then walk to start the inning with men on first and second with no outs. Josh Fyffe (Fredonia, PA/Sharpsville) would sacrifice them over to make it second and third with one out. However, Pitt-Greensburg's Branden Munshower would work out of the jam.

The blue and white would get on the board in the bottom of the third as Kessler would reach on a wind and sun aided single. Kessler would steal second before Fyffe would double in Kessler with a hard hit ball past the third baseman.

Koerbel would settle in after the first inning giving up only two hits while striking out six in his third complete game of the year.

Geoff Lang (Pittsburgh, PA/North Allegheny) would lead off the bottom of the fourth with a single up the middle. Lang would move to second on a Dustin Dubensky (Punxsutawney, PA/Punxsutawney) ground out.  Ryan Geibel (East Butler, PA/Butler) would ground out to the right side to drive in Lang. Two runs would be all the blue and white would need to improve to 11-2 in league play.  Fyffe would go 2-for-2 while driving in one run for the Behrend Lions.

Andrew Chrobak (New Castle, PA/Laurel) pitched another gem in game two. As the Behrend Lions would win 7-1.  The blue and white would get the first run of the game on a Fyffe single that would drive in Geibel to put the Behrend Lions up 1-0. Pitt-Greensburg would come back in the top of the fourth with a run of their own on two hits.

Behrend would open up the game scoring three runs in both the bottom of the fourth and fifth innings.  Both Adam Hartwig (Pittsburgh, PA/North Allegheny) and Lang would go 2-for-3 in game two.  Lang would drive in two runs for the Behrend Lions.

The Behrend Lions are now 12-2 in the conference and 19-4 overall. The blue and white will play five of their next eight games on the road.  Behrend will play at Allegheny on April 14.  They will be back on the Behrend diamond on April 22 at 1:00 p.m.