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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Senior Travis Kreitz and junior Brady McNab both homered on Sunday as the Kutztown University baseball team split its non-conference doubleheader at Philadelphia University. KU won the opener 8-6 and dropped the nightcap 10-7.
 
The Golden Bears (14-12) scored five runs in the fifth inning to highlight their two-run win in the opener. Drew DeShong had the game-winning two-run single to give KU a 5-4 lead with one out. Following a groundball out, the second throwing error on a pickoff attempt on the Philadelphia pitcher scored Brandon Cholish from third for a 6-4 lead. In the next at-bat, McNab went yard to right-center field with a two-run homer to cap the scoring for KU's five-run inning.
 
Kreitz went 3-for-4 in the opener as one of three Golden Bears with multi-hit games. Brandon Martinez and McNab had two hits apiece. KU reliever Eric Hartranft won his second game of the year. He took over in the fourth and threw two scoreless innings of one-hit ball with two strikeouts.
 
Kreitz had a team-high four combined hits in the doubleheader. Despite only having one hit in the second game, he made the most of it with a three-run homer in the fifth inning. He also notched an RBI in the sixth after being hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.
 
The Rams (12-15) roared out with eight runs in the first two innings to command the second game; but despite the eight-run deficit, Kutztown kept plugging away with all seven of its runs in the final four innings.
 
Cholish went 2-for-4 with an RBI single, and Thomas Romano went 2-for-2 with a walk in the nightcap.
 
The Golden Bears return to action on Tuesday, April 14 to take on Bloomsburg University at North Campus Field at 1 p.m.