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WEST CHESTER, Pa. – The Bloomsburg University baseball team earned a series victory vs. West Chester with a road doubleheader split on Wednesday afternoon. The Huskies battled for a 2-1 win in eight innings in game one before dropping a 1-0 heartbreaker in the second game of the day, finishing the series with three wins in four tries vs. their divisional rival.
 
Bloomsburg now stands at 14-10 overall on the season and 7-3 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division standings while West Chester moves to 12-8, 5-5. Wednesday's results keep the Huskies in the mix at the top of the divisional standings, remaining tied with Shippensburg at 7-3 after the Raiders split with East Stroudsburg. Millersville, which is next up on the Huskies schedule, was idle Wednesday at remains at 6-2.
 
GAME ONE – Huskies 2, West Chester 1 (8 innings)
Corey Baiada (Harleysville/LaSalle) walked with the bases loaded to force in what would be the game-winning run as Bloomsburg used extra innings to defeat the Golden Rams in the opener.
 
A pitcher's duel led the Huskies and Golden Rams to a 1-1 tie after seven innings, sending the teams to the eighth. With two outs and the bases empty, Joey Casselberry (Eagleville/Methacton) was hit by a pitch and moved to second when Damin Muth (Breinigsville/Parkland) worked a walk. Brad Smith (Morgantown/Twin Valley) continued the inning with an infield single to load the bases and more wildness from West Chester's Kyle Weary (2-1) led to a walk of Baiada to break the tie as pinch runner Pete Edgar (Hatfield/North Penn) crossed the plate with the winning run.
 
Eric Geedey (Elverson/Twin Valley) (1-0) worked a perfect bottom half of the inning to lock down the win. Geedey tossed 2.1 innings of scoreless relief to earn his first victory of the year, allowing only one hit and did not walk a batter while striking out three.
 
Kyle Hunter (Lehighton/Lehighton) started and was also strong on the hill, tossing 5.2 innings and did not allow an earned run while giving up just three hits. Hunter walked three and struck out four.
 
The teams remained in a scoreless deadlock until the sixth when the Huskies got on the board with a two-out RBI. Eric Frain (Philadelphia/Archbishop Ryan) reached on a one-out bunt single and then stole second to get into scoring position. After a fly out, Casselberry was hit by a pitch to put runners at first and second. Muth then followed by driving a pitch back up the middle for an RBI, scoring Frain from second for the 1-0 lead.
 
West Chester broke through in the home half of the inning on an RBI single from Tyler Coleman. The Golden Rams put the potential winning run on base to lead off the bottom of the seventh when Ben Spezialetti singled, but the runner was quickly erased from the base paths when Baiada threw out Spezialetti on a steal attempt at second.
 
Frain posted two hits and a run out of the leadoff spot and Smith also tallied two hits.
 
Andrew Gernert was strong after starting for West Chester, allowing a run on five hits with no walks and two strikeouts in 5.2 innings.
 
GAME TWO – West Chester 1, Huskies 0
Bloomsburg received strong pitching from Sean McCloskey (Warminster/Archbishop Wood), Alex Carpenter (South Williamsport/South Williamsport) and Cody Heane (McClure/Indian Valley) in the second game, but could not push across any runs against West Chester starter Matt Petrizzi (1-0) in a 1-0 setback.
 
The only run of the game scored in the home half of the fourth. Justin Roman was hit by a pitch and a single by Robert Knox put runners at first and second with one away. Rob Spekhardt worked a walk to load the bases before Mike Gannon's ground out to second base scored Roman.
 
That would be all the offense Petrizzi would need as he scattered five hits with three walks and three strikeouts in a complete game effort.
 
Bloomsburg pitching surrendered only three hits in the game – McCloskey (1-1) picked up his first start of the year and threw 3.1 innings of one-run ball, allowing three hits with three walks and two strikeouts. Carpenter was nearly perfect over his two innings with only one walk blemishing his line as he also struck out one. Heane worked two-thirds of an inning with a strikeout.
 
The Huskies put a runner at second base in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings but could not pick up the hit they needed to tie the game.
 
Muth, Smith, Nick Mazza (Carbondale/Carbondale), Aaron Russell (Montoursville/Montoursville) and Tim Ravel (Sinking Spring/Wilson) all singled for the Huskies in a game where neither team recorded an extra base hit. West Chester's Mike Raimo was the only player for either side to reach base safely twice, walking a pair of times.
 
The Huskies took three of four games in their series against West Chester which began last Thursday at Danny Litwhiler Field before being delayed by weather. Bloomsburg swept the first doubleheader by scores of 10-2 and 5-1.
 
Bloomsburg returns to action on Friday when it starts a four-game home-and-home series with Millersville on the road in a battle for first in the PSAC East.