GLENVILLE, W.Va. – The Concord University baseball team rallied from a 2-0 deficit as it downed Lock Haven, 3-2, Sunday afternoon in the MEC-PSAC Mixer at the Sue Morris Complex.
Neither team was able to solve the starting pitchers in the contest as Concord's junior pitcher
Spencer Hoyt and LHU starter Colby Hiddeman only allowed a combined six hits through the first four innings, and only one baserunner got past second through four frames.
Three hits in a four batter span in the Lock Haven (3-3) sixth pushed the Bald Eagles out to a 2-0 lead.
However, in the top of the seventh the Mountain Lions (4-5) responded as freshman first baseman/catcher
Michael Dupont blasted his first career home run out to center field to cut the CU deficit in half.
It appeared LHU would come back in the bottom of the frame with its own runs, but freshman pitcher
Andrew Neff entered the game and got the final out of the inning on a strikeout to strand the bases loaded.
The momentum would carry over to the eighth.
After back-to-back hitters reached with one out in the frame, senior infielder
Nathan Neff punched a single through the right side of the infield to score redshirt freshman infielder
Joanthony Hernandez. Freshman catcher
Nick Funk drove in junior infielder
Anthony Stehlin during the next at-bat to push Concord in front 3-2.
LHU threatened the CU lead in the bottom of the ninth.
With runners on first and second and one out, Stehlin took over on the mound, and promptly got a strikeout and a caught stealing at third base to end the contest. A. Neff (1-0) got his first collegiate win as Stehlin earned his second save of the season.
Neff pitched 1.2 innings and struck out three. Hoyt finished the afternoon with seven strikeouts over 5.1 innings, allowing two earned runs.
The 1-4 hitters of Stehlin, N. Neff, Funk and Dupont accounted for four of the six hits, all three RBI and two runs scored.
Concord resumes action March 12 in a doubleheader against Pitt-Johnstown at Epling Stadium in Beckley, West Virginia.
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