Baseball Posts 10-3 Win over Penn State-Fayette

VERO BEACH, Fla. – The Bridgewater State University baseball team closed out its Florida trip with a 10-3 victory over Penn State-Fayette on Friday morning in Vero Beach.

The Bears improve to 6-3 on the season with the win, while the Roaring Lions of Penn State-Fayette slip to 1-4.

Twenty-two batters reached safely for Bridgewater State as the Bears banged out 13 hits, were issued seven walks and got hit by pitch twice.

Sean Riley (Fairhaven, Mass.), James Gilmore (Mansfield, Mass.), David Pierce (East Bridgewater, Mass.) and Jose Polanco (Lawrence, Mass.) paced the BSU offensive as they each had multiple hits.  Riley went 3-for-5 with a double, a triple, a run scored and two RBI.  Gilmore finished 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles, two runs and two RBI.  Pierce was 2-for-4 at the plate with two double and an RBI, while Polanco came off the bench to go 2-for-4 with a two-bagger.

Andy Sadoski (Harwich, Mass.) was the pitcher of record for the Bears as he came on in relief of starter Nicholas Ciuffo (South Easton, Mass.) to start the third inning and retired all six batters he faced with one strikeout.  Ciuffo hurled a scoreless two innings giving up just one hit. Nolan Lynch (Medway, Mass.), Jake Scott (Somerset, Mass.) and Tyler Hughes (Middleboro, Mass.) pitched the final five innings.  All told, the BSU moundsmen allowed just three runs (one earned) on four hits with a walk and seven strikeouts.

Bridgewater plated six runs in the bottom of the first as Riley led off the frame with a triple and scored on a throwing error.  Later in the frame, Roaring Lion starter Braden Royer (Greensburg, Pa.) walked three straight batters with the bases loaded and Riley capped off the six-run uprising with a two-run double.

The Bears tacked on three more runs in the fifth on a Michael St. Clair (Berkley, Mass.) RBI single and a Pierce two-run double.  Bridgewater added a single run in the sixth on Gilmore's RBI double.

Royer was touched up for 10 runs on 12 hits with seven walks in six innings for the Roaring Lions.