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ERIE, Pa. - The D'Youville baseball resumed their early-season road trip, making the trip to downtown Erie for a doubleheader at Gannon. The Saints struggled to get their offense going, dropping both games, 2-0 and 9-4, to the Golden Knights. The pair of setbacks drops the Saints to 6-5 overall on the season.
The opener featured a pitcher's duel between freshman Chris AuClair and Eric Sapp. AuClair did his part on the mound, tossing six innings and striking out five while surrendering two earned runs on seven hits. The D'Youville offense was able to muster up five hits but they couldn't put a rally together in the seventh inning with the tying run on base. Freshman Chris Stefan got on base with a one-out single to center field and junior Craig Oliver got on with a two-out walk but a foul out to first ended D'Youville's hopes of extending the game.
AT THE PLATE
Sophomore Alex Dzimian paced the Saints' offense with two hits in his two at-bats.
Gannon drew first blood once more in game two, plating a run in the first inning on an RBI single to right-center. The Golden Knights added two more in the bottom of the third to stretch their lead to 3-0.
Sophomore John Rogowski, Jr. provided a jolt to the Saints' offense in the top of the fourth inning with a double to left-center. With Rogowski in scoring position, Oliver got the job done placing a single down the left-field line to plate D'Youville's first run of the day.
Gannon matched D'Youville's run in the home half of the fourth before breaking the game open with a four-run fifth inning to create an 8-1 advantage.
Trailing 9-1 in the top of the seventh, the Saints filled the bases for sophomore Ethan Hammond who drew a walk to drive in D'Youville's second run. Dzimian advanced home on the next at-bat when senior George Farid grounded into a double play. Down to their last out, Stefan continued the rally with an RBI single to center. Rogowski kept things going, taking one for the team by getting hit by a pitch to reload the bases after a Gannon pitching change but would be out on the next play on a fielder's choice to end the game.
Freshman Harrison Lough (0-1) got the nod in game two … Lough fanned six batters while issuing four walks in 2.3 innings and was charged with two earned runs on three hits … Freshman Connor Joedicke (1.0 inning), freshman Samuel Worthen (0.1 innings), and freshman Mike Pasquarella (1.0 inning) each made appearances in relief.
Six Saints hit safely in game two led by sophomore catcher Jeremy Glinski's 2-for-3 (2B) day.
The Saints return to Erie for another doubleheader with the Golden Knights on Sunday with first pitch set for noon.
