Baseball Wins 6-4 Over Rowan

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Widener hosted Rowan and built a six-run leading before holding on for a 6-4 victory in Chester, PA.

Starting pitcher Brandon McCloskey (Belford, NJ) started the game with a strikeout on the lead-off batter for the Profs and only allowed four batters to step up to the plate in the first inning. His offense earned him a 1-0 lead after the completion of the first inning thanks to a hit and run combo between left fielder Matt Scherer (Havertown, PA), who reached on a single up the middle, and third baseman Marc Noyalis (Dallas, PA), who doubled to right-center to score a sliding in Scherer .

Widener (17-18) took advantage of three Prof errors in the bottom of the second inning to score five runs, four of them unearned. With one out down shortstop Josh Everett (Harveys Lake, PA) singled through the left side, advanced to second on a fielding error and scored on a right field double hit by Kyle Summers (Mohnton, PA). Another fielding error followed by a hit batsman allowed one run to score and left the bases loaded. A wild pitch thrown by starting pitcher Mike Behar allowed Summers to score from third and Sam Christie (Upper Darby, PA) made a good read on the play to score from second. Scherer scored the fifth and final run of the inning, and the game, for the Pride on a sacrifice fly hit by Noyalis.

In the top of the fourth inning, Rowan hit three consecutive singles off of McCloskey to go towards two runs before a groundout and two pop-outs got him out of the inning.

Rowan (25-11) scored one more run in the fifth inning and an unearned run in the sixth to put itself two runs away from a tied ball game. Widener sent four different pitchers to the mound throughout the seventh to ninth innings, and together they only allowed two hits and two walks in 12 batters faced.

McCloskey (3-2) gets the win after pitching six innings and giving up just three earned runs on eight hits. Noyalis moved from third to the mound to close the game and put the first two men on base with a walk and a single, but was able to work out of it to end the game on a looking strikeout for his second save of the season. Behar (2-1) is credited with the loss after giving up six runs -- two earned -- on four hits in two innings.

Widener is on the road Wednesday at Eastern, starting at 4:00 pm in St. Davids, PA.

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