March 26, 2005
Game one: full boxscore
Game two: full boxscore
 

Baseball Put on Ice, 2-1, 3-2

LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – Enduring the 38-degree weather, the Lock Haven University baseball team (9-8) dropped a pair of games to Bloomsburg University (6-11) 2-1 and 3-2 today (March 26) at Foundation Field. Senior leftfielder Aaron Neideigh (Spring Mills, Pa./Penns Valley) was a total of 5-for-6 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) crossover contests, driving in one run.

Game one was a pitcher’s duel, as a trio of LHU hurlers fell one run short of matching the Huskies’ Corey Helfrich. Sophomore Blake Barbini (Pittston, Pa./Pittston Area) got the start, no-hitting BU for the first three innings, but he did walk four and hit two.

Bloomsburg broke a scoreless tie in the fifth inning, plating a pair of runs on a single and a double.

The Bald Eagles would claw to get one back in the sixth, as a one-out walk and single to left by junior centerfielder Kyle Elbin (Bedford, Pa./Delgado C.C.) gave LHU two runners in scoring position with one out. Sophomore Travis Ruane (Hughesville, Pa./Hughesville) followed with a sacrifice fly, driving in his team-best 13^th run of the season.

Sophomore Jason A. Brindle (James Creek, Pa./Huntingdon Area) took the loss, going three innings and allowing both runs, to even out at 2-2. Helfrich went all seven innings to get his first win (1-3).

Game two started off on the right note for LHU, as they got a 1-0 lead in the second inning. Senior first baseman Dave Miller (Tyrone, Pa./Bellwood-Antis) reached on an error, eventually scoring on senior shortstop Brett Kelley’s (Williamsport, Pa./Williamsport) infield single.

The Huskies reclaimed the lead with a two-RBI single in the top of the fifth. LHU answered in the sixth, as Miller scored his second run of the game on a single by Neideigh. The Bald Eagles couldn’t capitalize on a first-and-second, one-out situation later in the inning, which would prove to be their downfall. BU got the game-winner off a leadoff double in the seventh, driven home on a sacrifice fly.

Freshman Patrick Young (Allensville, Pa./Indian Valley) suffered the loss for the Haven, dropping to 1-2. Bloomsburg’s Casey Markey (2-2) got the complete game win.

Neideigh, Barbini, Elbin, Ruane, Brindle, Miller, Kelley, Young and the rest of the Bald Eagles are back in action Monday, March 28, at 1 p.m. as they travel to Mansfield University.