Posted: Apr 22, 2025
Brandywine Holds On For 8-6 Victory Over Valley Forge
Penn St. Brandywine
(1-0)
8
Valley Forge
(0-1)
6
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Penn St. Brandywine | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 14 | 1 |
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Valley Forge | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 3 |
MEDIA, Pa. -- Penn State Brandywine built a six-run lead and held on to defeat Valley Forge by an 8-6 count in United East Conference baseball action on Tuesday afternoon.
Brandywine took a 1-0 lead through one inning as Toby Skeans (Stevensville, Md./Kent Island) singled, stole second and scored on Owen Lawton's (Glenmoore, Pa./Downingtown East) groundout.
The Patriots evened the score in the fourth inning, but Brandywine went right back on top one frame later. Lawton used a double to score Ryan Snyder (Aston, Pa./Sun Valley), who led off the inning with a base hit.
Brandywine padded its lead by pushing four more runs across in the seventh thanks to five hits. Snyder singled and Skeans doubled to get the inning started. Nate Turner (Dover, Del./Dover) and Lawton followed with run-scoring base hits to push across the first two runs. Shawn Webb (Drexel Hill, Pa./Bonner-Prendie) added a sacrifice fly before Lawton crossed home on Miguel Rodriguez's (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin) double.
Skeans followed Mason Coursey's (Chadds Ford, Pa./Unionville) triple with a sacrifice fly and Turner drove in Snyder with a two-base hit to make the count 8-2 entering the bottom of the eighth inning.
Valley Forge got a run back in the eighth and scored three more times in the ninth, but Noah Walker (Bremen, Ga./Bremen) shut the door on the Patriots, getting a strikeout to end the game, stranding the potential game-tying run at first base.
Brandywine collected 13 hits, led by Turner's three-hit day. Snuder, Skeans, Lawton and Daniel Rohlsen (Macungie, Pa./Emmaus) all tallied two hits. Lawton drove in three runs, while Snyder, Skeans and Turner all scored twice.
Ty Coccia (West Chester, Pa./West Chester East) pitched the first 5.0 innings to earn his second win of the season. Coccia limited the Patriots to one run on six hits.
Brandywine wraps up the regular season on Friday with a doubleheader against St. Elizabeth beginning at 5:00 PM.
