Ward and Austin Power Huskies Past Lenoir-Rhyne

HICKORY, NC--Kevin Ward (Clifton Heights/Monsignor Bonner) went 4-5 in game one and Mike Austin (Dallastown/Dallastown) went 3-3 and scored four runs in game two to lead the Bloomsburg University baseball team to a sweep of its doubleheader with 8th-ranked Lenoir-Rhyne University snapping the Bears 12-game winning streak on Saturday. The Huskies won the opener 10-3 and the nightcap 8-4.

Bloomsburg opened game one with five straight hits and took a 4-0 lead after one inning. Tony Donofry (Newtown/Council Rock North) tripled to lead things off with Nick Ferdinand (Bensalem/Archbishop Ryan) driving him home with a double. Ward followed with a single scoring Ferdinand. Austin and Tyler Gansner (Lancaster/Lampeter-Strasburg) got back-to-back singles to load the bases. After getting two outs, Corey Eisenhart (York/Dover) lined a two-run single making it 4-0.

The Huskies made it 6-0 with two runs in the fourth. Ward had an RBI double and Carlos Medina (Lititz/Manheim Twp) had an RBI single. In the fifth Ferdinand and Ward had back-to-back RBI doubles making it 8-0. The Huskies added two more runs in the seventh on a two-run homer from Donofry. The Bears added three runs in the bottom of the eighth to make it 10-3.

Pitcher Grant Kernaghan (Upper Darby/Upper Darby) was the beneficiary of the offensive output and earned his third win of the season against no losses going first 7 and 2/3 innings and allowing three runs.

In game two, the Huskies were trailing 1-0 after one inning when they tied the score on a sacrifice fly by Scott Kacelowicz (Orwigsburg/Blue Mountain). Bloomsburg went on top 5-1 with four runs in the third. Austin, Medina, Jarrod Kramer (Orwigsburg/Blue Mountain) and Bill Phillips (Shahola/Delaware Valley) all picked up an RBI in the inning. Lenoir-Rhyne got three back in the home third to make it 5-4 before Anthony Forman's (Richboro/Council Rock South) bases loaded walk in the fifth made it 6-4 in favor of the Huskies. Forman plated two more runs with a bases loaded single in the seventh to make it 8-4.

Vinny Voorhees (Lakaska/New Hope-Solebury) went the first six innings for the Huskies with Chris Carter pitching the seventh.

Bloomsburg, which improves to 7-6, plays at Shepherd on Sunday at 3 p.m.