Penn College Edges Brandywine In Slugfest

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Penn College walked off with a 19-18, slugfest victory over the Penn State Brandywine baseball team on Saturday afternoon in game one of a United East Conference doubleheader. Game two was postponed until Monday at 4:00 PM because of weather.

The Wildcats answered Brandywine's five-run top of the ninth with three scores during the bottom of the frame, including Jaydon Goebel's walk-off single to win the game.

Brandywine got on the board first with Ryan Brown's (Bensalem, Pa./Bensalem) two-out, two-run single in the first inning.

The Lions added seven more runs two frames later to up the margin to 9-0. David Kursman (Pennsauken, N.J./Pennsauken) and Mason Coursey (Chadds Ford, Pa./Unionville) recorded run-scoring singles and Daniel Rohlsen (Macungie, Pa./Emmaus) added a two-run base hit before Tommy Zotollo (Washington Township, N.J./St. Joseph's Regional) cleared the bases with a two-out double.

Penn College plated runs during each of its final seven at-bats, but Brandywine had an answer for most of the day.

Shawn Webb (Drexel Hill, Pa./Bonner-Prendie) scored Owen Lawton (Glenmoore, Pa./Downingtown East) with a sacrifice fly in the fourth, while Coursey crossed home via Nate Turner's (Dover, Del./Dover) base hit in the fifth.

A Rohlsen sacrifice fly followed by Coursey's RBI double in the sixth made the count 13-7, but Penn College came storming back. The Wildcats trimmed the margin to one with a five-run sixth inning and took the lead thanks to a pair of seventh-inning home runs.

Trailing 16-13 with three outs to play, Brandywine produced a five-run rally in the ninth. Lawton worked a bases-loaded walk to force in the first run of the frame and three batters later, Toby Skeans (Stevensville, Md./Kent Island) delivered the game-tying hit with two outs, lining a single to left to score Turner and Zotollo. Brandywine executed a double steal with Lawton swiping home to take the lead. Webb's RBI double added an insurance run for the Lions, giving Brandywine an 18-16 edge.

Penn College put together one final rally, scoring three times on three hits in its half of the ninth to complete the comeback.

Eight of the nine players in the lineup collected at least two hits led by Brown's three-hit day. Zotollo, Turner, Kursman, Lawton, Coursey, Rohlsen and Webb all registered two knocks. Lawton crossed home a team-high four times, while Turner scored three runs. Rohlsen and Zotollo both collected three RBI.

Brandywine will return to Williamsport Monday for a 4:00 PM game against the Wildcats at Bowman Field.