Baseball vs. Cal U 4-4-22
8
Gannon GAN-B 13-7
12
Winner Mansfield MANS-B 10-15
Gannon GAN-B
13-7
8
Final
12
Mansfield MANS-B
10-15
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Gannon GAN-B 1 0 0 3 2 2 0 8 10 2
Mansfield MANS-B 3 0 0 3 6 0 X 12 9 1

W: Josh Colon (4-0) L: Murray, Marshall (0-1)

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Winner Gannon GAN-B 14-7
0
Mansfield MANS-B 11-15
Winner
Gannon GAN-B
14-7
9
Final
0
Mansfield MANS-B
11-15
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Gannon GAN-B 3 0 0 1 1 2 2 9 10 1
Mansfield MANS-B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3

W: Borrello, Kyle (1-0) L: Todd Erney (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Bob Shreve, Assistant Director of Athletics Media Relations

Hess, Quartet of Pitchers Power Gannon to Split with Mansfield

CORNING, N.Y. – The Gannon baseball team completed a brutal stretch of four doubleheaders in four days with a split of a twinbill vs. Mansfield on Tuesday. The non-conference doubleheader was played at SUNY Corning Community College, with Mansfield outscoring Gannon 12-8 in the opener before the Golden Knights shutout Mansfield in the nightcap 9-0. Gannon is now 14-7 while Mansfield has a 10-16 record.

The latter contest was even more amazing since the weary Golden Knight pitching staff stepped up to limit the Mountaineers to just three hits by a combined four pitchers. Two of the pitchers were making their first appearances of the year. The quartet walked just three batters and struck out nine.

Ian Hess (Canonsburg, Pa./Canon-McMillan), meanwhile, continued to break out an early-season slump with a pair of home runs to lead the offensive effort. The redshirt junior first baseman now has three home runs on the season and 21 for his career. He is second in career home runs, chasing Nate Cardy who hit 27 between 2016-19.

Head coach DJ Cannon's squad will now get a couple days off before returning to the diamond with back-to-back PSAC West doubleheaders this weekend. They host Slippery Rock on Friday, April 8 before playing at The Rock for two games the next day.

GAME 1 – Mansfield 12, Gannon 8
Both teams finished with 10 hits, but Mansfield came up with the big blow in a six run fifth inning. After Gannon had tied the game in the top of the fifth inning courtesy of an Ian Hess (Canonsburg, Pa./Canon-McMillan) single and a wild pitch, the Mountaineers answered with six runs to take a 12-6 lead. With two outs, Samuel Freedman hit a grand slam, part of a five-RBI day. Gannon pushed across two runs in the top of the sixth as Miguel Vega (Florida, Puerto Rico/Carlos Beltran Baseball Academy) doubled with one out to drive in Luke Callahan (Chardon, Ohio/Chardon), who struck out to start the inning but reached on a passed ball. Kalbfus would drive in the second run with a ground out to pull Gannon to within 12-8. The Golden Knights would go down in order in the seventh inning. Vega was 3-for-4 with three runs scored and an RBI. Hess was 2-for-4 with an RBI and Kalbfus drove in a pair of runs, as did Rakow.  

GAME 2 – Gannon 9, Mansfield 0
In the second "bullpen game" of the day, Evan Harrison (Mississauga, Ontario/St. Aloysius Gonzaga S.S.), Kyle Borrello (Hamburg, N.Y./Hamburg), John Bender (Wilson, N.Y./Wilson) and Mason Haley (Munhall, Pa./Steel Valley) combined for a three-hitter. Harrison threw the first three innings in his first appearance of the season, allowing two hits and striking out two. Redshirt freshmen followed and threw two hitless innings for his first win as a Golden Knight. He struck out three. Bender threw for the second straight day and struck out three in an inning. Mason Haley (Munhall, Pa./Steel Valley) threw the seventh inning, giving up a hit with a strikeout. Hess got the scoring started with a two-run homer to left center in the first inning after a leadoff single by Miguel Vega (Florida, Puerto Rico/Carlos Beltran Baseball Academy). The Golden Knights would add a third run in the inning on an RBI groundout by Connor Rakow (Franklin, Pa./Franklin). They added single runs in the fourth and fifth inning. Brandan Rea (Washington, Pa./Canon-McMillan) drove in the Rakow, who had reached on an error, in the fourth thanks to a groundout. Hess drove his second home run of the game out of the ballpark in the fifth inning, a shot to left center. Gannon was not done scoring, plating a pair of runs in both the sixth and seven innings. The sixth opened with a Jorge Mejia (San Juan, Puerto Rico/Colegio San Jose) single and Rakow followed with a two-run homer to left center. In the seventh, Ryan Kalbfus (Penfield, N.Y./Penfield) hit Gannon's fourth homer of the game to left field. Later in the inning Luke Callahan (Chardon, Ohio/Chardon) singled in Rakow. Gannon finished with 10 hits, with Hess going 2-for-4 with 3 RBIs, while Rakow was 1-for-4 with three runs and three RBIs. Kalbfus was 2-for-4 with an RBI, as was Callahan.    
 
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