Box Score



HAMPTON, VA – Four pitchers combined for a one-hit shutout as the Kutztown University baseball team opened play at the Builder Invitational Thursday with a 5-0 win over PSAC foe Lock Haven.

Jason Henderson (Douglassville, PA/Daniel Boone) (1-0) got the win, allowing just one hit with five strikeouts over five innings.  Colin Holmes (Ewing, NJ/Ewing), Connor Wing (West Chester, PA/Unionville) and Matt Swarmer (Mohnton, PA/Governor Mifflin) collected the final four hitless innings in relief.

Brandon Hickey (Mountville, PA/Hempfield) was 2-for-3 with two RBI, while Kyle Stoudt (Mertztown, PA/Brandywine Heights) was 4-for-5 with a run scored. 

The Golden Bears (2-2) got on the board in the bottom of the second inning when Brandon Martinez (Lansdale, PA/North Penn) drove in Todd Rubendall (Collegeville, PA/Methacton) on a force out.  In the third, Hickey and Rubendall had back-to-back run-scoring singles. 

KU broke it open in the fourth with an RBI double by Carson Baker (Lehman, PA/Lake-Lehman (Lackawanna)) and an infield single by Hickey for the Bears' final two runs. 

Kutztown returns to the diamond on Friday, taking on the host Newport Apprentice Builders at noon