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Kutztown 10, Saint Rose 2 (HTML Box Score)
 
Kutztown 11, Saint Rose 9 (HTML Box Score)
 
SUTHERLAND, Va. – The Kutztown University baseball team only trailed for one of 18 innings on Saturday afternoon as it took the first two games of a three-game series against the College of Saint Rose at the Dinwiddie Sports Complex.
 
The Golden Bears (6-1) won the first nine-inning game 10-2, and the second 11-9. The three-game series will conclude on Sunday, March 16 at 10 a.m.
 
Game One (KU 10, SR 2)
 
Kutztown scored its first two runs in the second inning off a Saint Rose error, and pushed its lead to 4-1 with RBI from Brandon Martinez (Lansdale, PA/North Penn) and Kyle Stoudt (Mertztown, PA/Brandywine Heights) in the fourth inning.
 
Carson Baker (Lehman, PA/Lake-Lehman (Lackawanna)) opened the fifth inning with his first career home run at KU, this one over the left field wall for a 5-1 KU lead. Freshman Brandon Cholish (Peckville, PA/Valley View (Lackawanna)) hit a two-run double later in the inning as the Golden Bears led Saint Rose 7-1 in the fifth.
 
Ricky Devlin (Hillsborough, NJ/Hillsborough) and Martinez each drove in runs in the eighth inning as Devlin opened the scoring with a sacrifice fly, followed by Martinez's RBI double off the left field wall.
 
Saint Rose knocked in a solo home run in the bottom half of the eighth, and a Baker RBI single in the ninth closed the scoring in the opener.
 
Senior left-hander Colin Holmes (Ewing, NJ/Ewing) retired five of his first six batters-faced before allowing a solo home run with two outs in the second inning. It was his only allowed run all game in six innings of work. He allowed seven hits and notched a pair of strikeouts in his second win of the season.
 
Ryan Clow (Doylestown, PA/Central Bucks East) came in relief in the seventh and pitched two innings while only allowing one earned run. He also had two strikeouts. Zach Wasson (Pottstown, PA/Boyertown (Montgomery CC)) and Pat Flynn (Pottstown, PA/West-Mont Christian Academy) also pitched in relief for Kutztown.
 
Game Two (KU 11, SR 5)
 
Kutztown led 11-5 and was three outs away from a victory; however, Saint Rose had other plans on how the final half-inning would play out. It quickly loaded and cleared the bases with no outs as a double cut the deficit to 11-8, still with no outs.
 
Matt Swarmer (Mohnton, PA/Governor Mifflin) took over on the mound with one out and a three-run lead. Despite allowing one run off an RBI single, he closed the door with a strikeout and some help from his catcher, Joe Peters (Kutztown, PA/Kutztown (Delaware Technical CC)), who threw out a runner attempting to steal second base to end the game.
 
Kutztown tallied 14 hits in the win, led by three apiece from Kyle Stoudt (Mertztown, PA/Brandywine Heights) and Brandon Hickey (Mountville, PA/Hempfield). Starting pitcher Brandon Shimo (Jermyn, PA/Lakeland (Lackawanna)) pitched six innings with three strikeouts to earn the victory. Swarmer notched the final two outs in his second save of the season.
 
Saint Rose struck first with a run off a wild pitch, but Shimo did a great job of limiting damage with just one run in the inning. In the bottom half of the inning, Ricky Gorrell (Royersford, PA/Spring-Ford) hit a single and was driven in on a double by Brandon Martinez (Lansdale, PA/North Penn) to left-center field.
 
Kutztown plated four runs off as many hits in the fourth inning to take a 5-1 lead. Carson Baker (Lehman, PA/Lake-Lehman (Lackawanna)) and Ricky Devlin (Hillsborough, NJ/Hillsborough) hit back-to-back RBI singles for a 3-1 lead, as junior Warren Stimpson (Blue Bell, PA/Wissahickon) hit a two-run single with the bases loaded and two outs to build the lead to 5-1.
 
Saint Rose scored three runs in the next two innings to cut the deficit to 5-4. The Golden Bears responded though with the next four runs to command a 9-4 lead in the fifth. Stoudt had a RBI single, Stimpson drove in a run with a groundout, and Peters belted a two-run double down the right field line.