(Game 1) / (Game 2)

Widener could not have played better in a doubleheader against No. 13 Farmingdale State, notching a 10-5 victory in the opener before a 19-9 laugher in the nightcap in Orlando, FL.

Down 5-0 after the first inning of game one, the Pride (3-2) scored three runs in the second and six in the fifth for a 9-5 lead.  The sixth featured freshman Dennis Hocker (Coral Springs, FL) smacking his first career homer, junior Alex Oliver (Lebanon, NJ) getting a two-run single, junior Tom Mahoney (Norristown, PA) lining an RBI single, Sean Saverio (Horsham, PA) lacing a run-scoring triple and fellow sophomore Dan Sieracki (Cherry Hill, NJ) adding an RBI single.

Brookhaven, PA junior Kevin Culbert (1-0) shook off a rough first inning to retire 11 straight batters from the first through fifth frames.  He struck out six, yielding five runs and seven hits with one walk.  Culbert permitted only two hits over the first inning.

Mahoney closed with four hits and two RBI with Saverio adding a double and two RBI.  Sieracki rapped three hits with Hocker, senior Tom Connelly (Media, PA), and freshmen Jordan Shenk (New Park, PA) and Max McCarthy (Deptford, NJ) adding two apiece.

The Pride in game two scored seven times in the first inning, keyed by a three-run triple from McCarthy.  The squad tacked on 10 more in the fourth for an 18-2 cushion thanks to a three-run double from sophomore Bill Hollingsworth (Drexel Hill, PA).

Saverio reached base all five times, ending with two singles, a double and an RBI.  Freshman Matt Hone (Newtown, PA) went 3-for-3 with two RBI and junior Jason Brooke (Collegeville, PA) had two hits and three RBI.

Brooke (1-0) got the win, striking out three over five innings.

Farmingdale State fell to 4-7.

Widener on Wednesday battles Rose-Hulman at 10:00 am.