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NASHVILLE, TN—The Bloomsburg University baseball team dropped a pair of games on Tuesday to Trevecca Nazarene of Tennessee losing 8-7 in eight innings and 3-1 on the final day of its spring road trip.
In game one the Huskies started quickly jumping out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning.
Brad Smith (Morgantown/Twin Valley), who had singled, came around to score on a sacrifice fly by
Jordan Schainholz (Bellefonte/Bellefonte). Bloomsburg made it 3-0 in the third when Casey Baiada walked and scored on a triple by Schainholz.
A.J. Stump (Reading/Antietam) then singled home Schainholz for the second run of the inning. Meanwhile, starter
Casey Cooperman (Allentown/Parkland) allowed just one hit in three innings of work before being lifted.
After scoring a single run in the fifth inning the Huskies tacked on three runs in the sixth inning. Schainholz doubled home one run, while
Brian Almand (Haddon Township, NJ/Paul VI) delivered a singled scoring Schainholz and Baiada to make it 7-0.
After the Trojans scored once in the sixth, they rallied in the bottom of the seventh scoring six times to tie the score. Trevecca Nazarene scored six runs on three hits with the Huskies committing one error and hitting three batters. In the bottom of the eighth Trevecca Nazarene got two, two-out singles sandwiched around a walk to score the game-winning run.
Schainholz finished 2-3 with three RBI and two runs scored, while Almand was 2-3 with two RBI.
In game two, the Trojans scored single runs in the first, second and fifth innings to go up 3-0. The Huskies did strand two runners on in the bottom of the second, but the Trojans got a strikeout to end the frame. In the fifth inning the Huskies loaded the bases with one out. But Nazarene got a pop out and a fielder's choice to keep Bloomsburg off the board.
The Huskies finally broke through in the seventh inning when Stump, Almand and
Tim Kurucz (East Brunswick, NJ/East Brunswick) had three straight singles to load the bases.
Nick Mazza (Carbondale/Carbondale) then reached on a fielder's choice scoring Almand. However, Nazarene starter Mason Dunn induced a game-ending double play ball.
Stump finished 2-3 with a run scored to lead the Huskies.
Bloomsburg, 4-10, will begin PSAC East play on Friday at West Chester at 1 p.m.