Behrend Baseball Heads to Mount Union on Sunday Prior to Conference Opener
The Penn State Behrend baseball team will head to Alliance, Ohio for a non-conference bout with the Mount Union Purple Raiders on Sunday for a single nine-inning game. First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m.
ERIE, Pa. – The Penn State Behrend baseball team will head to Alliance, Ohio for a non-conference bout with the Mount Union Purple Raiders on Sunday for a single nine-inning game. First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m.
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Behrend News & Notes:
* The Lions combined for 21 runs on 30 hits in a non-conference win over Franciscan on Thursday
* 15 different batters came away with a hit with eight having multi-hit performances
* The Lions totaled 13 extra-base hits with six different players registering a double
* Isaac Stouffer (Punxsutawney, PA/Punxsutawney), Jake Deitz (Erie, PA/McDowell) and Shaun Mikulan (Allison Park, PA/Hampton) all left the yard hitting homeruns with Stouffer making the roundtrip twice
* As a team, Behrend is hitting .293 with slugging percentage at .428
* In 22 at-bats, Deitz carries a .500 average into Sunday's contest
* Stouffer leads the Lions in hits (20), RBIs (13) and doubles (5)
Mount Union News & Notes:
* The Purple Raiders opened play in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) with two wins over Heidelberg last week (4-2, 7-1)
* On March 18, Mount Union split a non-conference doubleheader with AMCC foe, La Roche
* The Raiders secured a 5-2 win in game one but fell in the nightcap 3-1 to the Redhawks
* Five different players have left the ballpark already this season for a team-total 10 homeruns
* Entering the weekend, Mount Union had 36 stolen bases in 18 games, averaging two per contest
Series History:
* Behrend is 3-6 agaisnt Mount Union all-time with the series beginning in 1987
* This is the first contest between the two since the 2016 season that resulted in a Lion loss (11-1)
* The most recent Behrend victory was in 2013 during a 10-5 decision