Baseball Celebration
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Winner Tiffin TU 3-8
0
Gannon GAN-BS 0-9
Winner
Tiffin TU
3-8
1
Final
0
Gannon GAN-BS
0-9
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Tiffin TU 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 7 0
Gannon GAN-BS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1

W: Francisco Olivarez (1-0) L: Versaw-Barnes, Kieran (0-2) S: Andrew Fairbrother (2)

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Tiffin TU 3-9
2
Winner Gannon GAN-BS 1-9
Tiffin TU
3-9
1
Final
2
Gannon GAN-BS
1-9
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Tiffin TU 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 0
Gannon GAN-BS 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 6 0

W: Boynar, Jake (1-0) L: Scotty Adelman (0-1)

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

Bielanin Walk-Off Single Gives Gannon 2-1 Win over Tiffin

ERIE, Pa. – Jared Bielanin's (Erie, Pa./McDowell) two-out single through the right side in the bottom of the seventh inning gave Gannon (1-9) the walk-off win in the second game of a twinbill with Tiffin (3-9) on Friday afternoon. The win was the first for the Golden Knights after opening the season with nine straight losses.

Hits were at a premium as pitching ruled the day. Tiffin pushed across a run in the top of the sixth inning for a 1-0 win in the nightcap before Gannon scored in walk-off fashion for a 2-1 win in the nightcap.

The two teams will meet again at Tiffin on Tuesday, March 13 for a doubleheader. They originally were scheduled to play the two twinbills in Beckley, W.Va. this weekend but the weather forecast gave Gannon a chance to play at home for the first time.

Game 1: Tiffin 1, Gannon 0
Kieran Versaw-Barnes (Elkins Park, Pa./Cheltenham) threw his second straight gem but five Tiffin pitchers held the Golden Knights to just a pair of hits. The Dragons scored their lone run in the top of the fourth inning after Versaw-Barnes had struck out seven of the first 11 batters he faced. Adam Deitschel hit a leadoff double and eventually scored on a one-out triple by Logan Swonger. KVB would strand Swonger at third thanks to a popout and an out on a popped bunt. He was brilliant in the sixth as well after Tiffin put runners on first and third with no outs. His 10th strikeout, a career high, accounted for the first out. Freshman catcher Drew Stangelo (Uniontown, Ohio/North Canton Hoover) threw out Deitschel trying to steal second, and he induced a fly ball to left for the third out. Gannon threatened in the bottom of the seventh. With one out Cam Smith doubled to left center and Stangelo was hit by a pitch. Unfortunately Tiffin's Andrew Fairbrother retired the next two batters. Versaw-Barnes ended up going six inning, allowing five hits without a walk. Stangelo's single in the fifth accounted for Gannon's other hit.





Game 2: Gannon 2, Tiffin 1
For Gannon it was a case of right batter, right time in the bottom of the seventh inning. Freshman Brady Lane (Trafford, Pa./Penn-Trafford) was hit by a pitch to open the inning and moved up to second on a sacrifice by freshman Justin Weaver (North Huntingdon, Pa./Norwin). A popout left Tiffin an out away from sending the game into extra innings but Bielanin stepped to the plate and delivered. Lane would reach third on a wild pitch and the senior third baseman drove a pitch through the right side to plate Lane. Gannon had taken a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth on a sacrifice fly by Chris Mullins (Aliquippa, Pa./Hopewell). Justin Kerestes (Loves Park, Ill./Boylan Central Catholic) opened the inning with a double halfway up the netting in right and moved to third on a single by freshman Alex Bemis (Monroe, Ohio/Monroe). Tiffin knotted the score at 1-1 with a run in the top of the sixth but freshman Jake Boynar (North Ridgeville, Ohio/North Ridgeville) got the Golden Knights out of the inning. The big right-hander gave up the tying single but got the third out of the inning. He then retired the side with a pair of strikeouts in the seventh to pick up his first career win. Junior Jaret Boyer (New Wilmington, Pa./Wilmington) started the nightcap and allowed just two hits in 5.2 innings with four walks and a strikeout. Bemis was 2-for-3 on the afternoon and Bielanin went 2-for-4. Gannon finished with six hits.  
 
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