BOX SCORE
Reading, Pa. (Apr. 10, 2007) – Junior first baseman Zach Lutz (Mohnton, PA/Governor Mifflin) led an 18-hit attack with four base hits as Alvernia College completed a 3-game sweep of Eastern University with a 9-4 win Tuesday afternoon in Pennsylvania Athletic Conference baseball action at Alvernia.
Lutz knocked in two and scored a run, and eight Crusaders enjoyed multi-hit days including Steve DeBarberie (Drexel Hill, PA/Monsignor Bonner) who finished with three hits, two runs, and two RBI. Senior third baseman Jason Zeigler (Shillington, PA/Governor Mifflin) collected two RBI with two hits and a run scored.
Junior starter Pete Fernandez (Waldwick, NJ/Bogota) threw five innings and improved to 3-0 on the season. He struck out four while walking four and gave up three runs on just one hit. Senior Ben Reifsnyder (Wyomissing, PA/Wilson) pitched two innings and gave up a run on four hits. Steve Geisel (Schnecksville, PA/Parkland) worked a scoreless eighth, and Andrew Long (Pottstown, PA/Pottstown) finished the game with a strikeout in a scoreless ninth.
Alvernia took an early 3-0 lead with three runs in the home half of the first inning. Tim Carroll (Bensalem, PA/Conwell-Egan) singled and took second on DeBarberie’s groundout. Carroll stole third and came home on a throwing error by the Eastern catcher. Lutz doubled and scored on Zeigler’s single and Zeigler came home on Steve Burdan’s (Pottstown, PA/Pottstown) double down the left field line.
Eastern cut the gap to one with two runs in the second inning on two walks and a single aided by a fielding error, but Alvernia got those runs right back in the second on back-to-back, two-out RBI base hits from DeBarberie and Lutz.
Eastern scored single runs in the fifth and seventh innings, but Alvernia put the game out of reach with three runs in the bottom of the seventh.
Alvernia will travel to DeSales University for a non-conference match up with the Bulldogs on Wednesday.
Alvernia 9, Eastern 4
