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2026 Brandywine baseball seniors with head coach Vinny Gallo

Brandywine Earns Senior Night Split

ASTON, Pa. -- The Penn State Brandywine baseball team celebrated Senior Night by splitting a doubleheader with Penn State Abington on Monday night. Abington topped Brandywine 5-1 in game one before the Lions rebounded to defeat Abington 13-3 during the nightcap.
 
Game One: Penn State Abington 5, Penn State Brandywine 1
 
Brandywine outhit Abington 8-4, but the visitors took advantage of six Brandywine errors, while a pair of Abington pitchers combined for 15 strikeouts. 
 
Abington plated a pair of runs during the second inning, but Brandywine answered with a run during the bottom of the frame. Back-to-back two-out errors put two Lions on base for Ryan Snyder (Aston, Pa./Sun Valley), who stung a single through the middle to score Dan Rohlsen (Macungie, Pa./Emmaus)
 
The Lions put two runners on base with two outs again in the seventh before a strikeout ended the threat. Abington tacked on an insurance run in the seventh and two more in the eighth to provide the final margin.
 
Ryan Brown (Bensalem, Pa./Bensalem) accounted for two of Brandywine's hit, while Mason Coursey (Chadds Ford, Pa./Unionville) singled and stole a base.
 
Nate Romberger (Collegeville, Pa./Perkiomen School) limited Abington to one earned run and two hits, while striking out four in 6.2 innings, but took the loss. Josh Hess (Panama City, Fla./Arnold) made his sixth scoreless relief appearance of the year, fanning two hitters in 1.1 frames.
 
Game Two: Penn State Brandywine 13, Penn State Abington 3
 
Brandywine trailed 3-0 going to the bottom of the fourth inning before sending 15 batters to the plate as the Lions exploded for 10 runs.
 
Brody Oyloe (Redmond, Ore./Redmond) recorded a pair of run-scoring singles during the inning, while Miguel Rodriguez (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin) had three RBI thanks to a bases-loaded walk and a two-run single. Ivano Romaniello (Aston, Pa./Sun Valley) also drove in two runs with a base hit, while an error allowed Oyloe and Noah Currier (New Castle, Del./William Penn) to cross home.
 
Romaniello and Currier both provided a sacrifice fly and Messick notched a run-scoring single as Brandywine added three more runs in the fifth. 
 
Romaniello and Rodriguez both had a hit and three RBI, while Oyloe and Messick each tallied a pair of knocks. Oyloe, Ian Merrin (Chichester, Pa./Chichester) and Daniel Horowitz (Mechanicsville, Va./Atlee) all crossed home twice. 
 
Jack Johnston (Coatesville, Pa./Coatesville) got the start on the mound and pitched 1.1 scoreless innings. Zach Frost (Charlotte, N.C./Hickory Grove Christian) and Matt Delacruz (Exton, Pa./West Chester East) both made scoreless relief appearances, while JP Tinneny (Berwyn, Pa./Conestoga) earned the win. Tinneny entered the game with two runners on base and no outs in the fourth and proceeded to strikeout all three batters he faced during the inning. He totaled five strikeouts overall in 2.0 innings of work.
 
Brandywine (6-10, 0-2 UEC) continues conference play Saturday with a doubleheader against Rosemont beginning at 12:00 PM.