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WESTMORELAND CCC   8
PSU BEAVER 7
    The Blue Devils lead for most of the game, but could not hold on in the end. The Devils jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the second inning. Chris Thumm
singled and reached second base on a passed ball. Andy Frye drove him in with a base hit.
     John Rosati opened the fifth inning with a triple and scored on Trent Berner's groundout to first base. Dwight Lambert and the Blue Devil defense made the 2-0 lead stick until the sixth inning.
     In the Wolfpack sixth, two runs were put acrossed on a throwing error by the Blue Devil catcher and a passed ball. Three singles were knocked in the inning. The score was now
tied at 2-2.
     The Blue Devils did not answer in the seventh inning, and their silence was costly. The Wolfpack scored six runs in the seventh inning and five hits and more importantly to the rally, three errors by the Devil outfield. So as errors had tied the game, it also gave the Wolfpack an 8-2 lead.
     It was time for a fight or flight response from the Penn State Beaver Baseball team.

The team decided to fight. Staring down a six run deficit with only two at bats, the Devils whittled the deficit to one run with a five run outburst in the top of the eighth inning. Andy Fry started the rally with a single and Ron Glass followed with a walk. Their efforts did not go in vain as John Rosati and Trent Berner delivered run scoring singles. Rick Dietz then walked and scored on Chris Thumm's hit to the third baseman. Dan Hileman also contributed a two run single in the inning, but the Devils fell one run short of their goal.
Chris Thumm pitched a perfect seventh inning in relief to hold the defecit at one, but the Devils failed to plate a run in the top of the ninth inning.

BOX SCORE

The Blue Devils entered the game with Westmoreland on Thursday riding a nine game win streak and confident they would avenge and earlier loss to the Westmoreland Wolfpack. Despite knocking seventeen hits, defensive letdowns cost the Devils too much to overcome. Dwight Lambert started the game and pitched 6.3 innings, allowing six hits and two earned runs. Steve Pflugh got the lost as he was touched up for five hits and four runs in 2/3 inning.