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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - One day after scoring a season-high 20 runs against Kutztown, the Bloomsburg University baseball team took it to the Golden Bears again, erupting for 17 more runs on Sunday afternoon to defeat Kutztown University, 17-10, to win the 2016 Builder Invitational hosted by the Newport News Apprentice School. The Huskies went a perfect 5-0 at the tournament and improved to 6-2 on the season. Kutztown dropped to 3-6 with the loss.

At the tournament, the Huskies scored 52 runs in five games and they have now scored at least 17 runs three times in eight games this season.
 
The Huskies picked up where they left off on Saturday with a three-run bottom of the first inning against Kutztown starter Mike Kammerer. Sophomore Tyler Benson (Montville, N.J./Montville Township) led off the inning with a walk and scored when redshirt sophomore Austin Edgette (Exton, Pa./Downingtown East) doubled to left field. Junior Damin Muth (Breinigsville, Pa./Parkland) followed with an RBI double to plate Edgette and senior Joey Casselberry (Eagleville, Pa./Methacton) completed the scoring with an RBI single to score Muth.

Kutztown scored an unearned run in the top of the second against Bloomsburg starter, redshirt sophomore Zach Meyer (Muncy Valley, Pa./Sullivan County). The Huskies got the run back in the bottom of the fourth with an unearned run of their own.

In the Bloomsburg half of the fifth inning, the Huskies added three runs to take a 7-1 advantage. Casselberry, who had his second consecutive four-hit game, led off the inning with a double to left center and eventually scored on a passed ball on a third strike to redshirt sophomore Cy Treaster (Lewistown, Pa./Mifflin County) that would have ended the inning. Benson followed with a two-run single to cash two more unearned runs.

The Golden Bears responded with three runs in the top of the sixth on run-scoring singles from Zach Schram and Nick Lafferty. The other run scored on a throwing error.

But, in the sixth, Casselberry started another rally with a leadoff single and raced to second on a wild pitch. He later scored on an RBI from freshman Ryan Shiffer (Toms River, N.J./Toms River South). Senior Brian Almand (Haddon Township, N.J./Paul VI) and Treaster stroked baxk-to-back singles with Almand scoring on an error to give the Huskies a 9-4 lead.

The Golden Bears pulled to within a run in the top of the seventh with four runs on three hits and an error. Brady McNab drove home the first run of the inning with an RBI single and, after freshman Ashton Raines (Wallingford, Pa./Strath Haven) relieved Meyer, Alec O'Dell greeted him rudely with a three-run home run to pull Kutztown to within 9-8.

Bloomsburg answered in the bottom of the seventh with an RBI single from Casselberry and a sacrifice fly from senior Ryan Kirman (Little Silver, N.J./Red Bank Regional). The Huskies blew the game open in the home eighth with six runs on six hits and an error.

Sophomore Shane Woelfel (Mahwah, N.J./Mahwah) started the scoring with an RBI single that was followed by an RBI single from Edgette. Muth drove home a run on a fielder's choice and Kirman concluded the scoring with his fourth home run of the tournament, and sixth of the season, that also scored Casselberry. The other run scored on an error.

Kutztown scored a pair in the ninth for the final margin of victory.

Casselberry paced the Huskies' offense with four hits in six trips. He scored four runs and drove in a pair. Benson, Edgette, Almand, and Treaster had two hits apiece.

O'Dell led the Golden Bears with a 2-for-5 day at the plate with a home run and three runs batted in.

Bloomsburg will be off until Saturday, March 5 when it travels to Wingate, North Carolina, to play a doubleheader against Wingate. First pitch is scheduled for 1:00 p.m.