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Lewisburg remained undefeated by blanking Hughesville, 5-0. Colby Swartzentruber beat Kevin Bobak at No. 1 singles, 6-0, 6-1. At No. 2 singles, Henry Heintzelman defeated Luke Reagan, 6-0, 6-1.
• Seniors Sean Perkins and Brody Lindsey, and junior Eric MacCluen all swatted two-run home runs for the Lycoming College baseball team, which fell 14-10 in a Landmark Conference matchup at Drew University on Friday.
Lycoming (13-13, 6-7) hit a trio of home runs in a game for the first time this season, but Drew (14-8, 6-5) countered with three longballs of their own to claim the opening contest of a three-game series.
A first-inning tally and three more runs in the second gave the Rangers an early lead, but the Warriors tied the game in the third on their first two round-trippers. After a leadoff walk to senior Nick Reeder, a Montoursville graduate, Perkins walloped a 1-0 offering over the fence in left-center for his fourth home run of the season. Three batters later, MacCluen connected for his first homer of the year, bringing Lindsey home to tie the game at four apiece.
Drew responded with a solo shot from Anthony Vallaro in the bottom of the third and another one from Griffin Sherman an inning later. The Rangers also pulled off a double steal to take a 7-4 lead.
In the fifth, the Warriors pulled back within one as Lindsey followed a leadoff walk to Perkins with a two-run shot to left, closing the gap to 7-6 on Lindsey’s third home run of the season.
The Rangers scored twice in the fifth, once in the sixth, and four more in the seventh, capping off their scoring on a three-run home run from Nick Donofrio.
In the top of the ninth, Lycoming sent eight consecutive pinch hitters to the plate, loading the bases with one out for junior Rhys Evans, who roped a pinch-hit two-run double. Freshman Zach Woskobunik followed with his first career hit and an RBI, a pinch-hit single of his own that brought home a third run. A groundout from first year Nathaniel Wilk brought in the final run of the day for the Warriors, who brought the tying run to the on-deck circle in their final push.
Lock Haven hosted No. 16-ranked Seton Hill in a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Western Division doubleheader. Seton Hill took both games and improved to 22-6 and a perfect 10-0 in PSAC West play.
The Bald Eagles fell to 5-21 and 1-8 in conference action.
Seton Hill struck first in game one by scoring a run in the top of the first.
Lock Haven responded by recording three straight singles to start the inning from Braden Cummings, Zachary McEllroy and Kellen Jackson.
Mansfield (11-19, 2-8 PSAC East) traveled to Shepherdstown, West Virginia to compete against the Rams (19-12, 6-4 PSAC East) with Mansfield dropping both. Mansfield lost the first game, 9-3, and the second game, 12-8.
Shepherd opened the can early in the first inning by with three runs.
The Mounties found an opportunity in the third inning where Billy Riggs hit a single down the left line, which allowed Ryan Sekulski to bring in the first run of the game, 3-1.
• The red-hot Lock Haven softball team took down No. 23 Shippensburg, 4-1, in game two of a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference doubleheader on the road on Friday. The Raiders won game one, 12-1.
With the split, Lock Haven moves to 15-13 overall and 7-7 in the East and Shippensburg is now 16-10 on the season and 6-6 in conference play.
The Bald Eagles are now 4-2 in their last six conference contests.
In the nightcap, Shipp led 1-0 after one inning, but The Haven tied the game in the top of the fourth thanks to a home run from Olivia LeMeau, before striking for three more runs an inning later in a three-run big fly by Hailey Irvin to jump out in front 4-1.
After allowing a run in the first, Talia Ross (10-4) went scoreless in the circle the rest of the way and struck out four hitters, while only giving up three hits. Ross won her team high 10th game of the year.
• The NCAA Division III leader in goals and points, senior Riley Block, tied the Lycoming College women's lacrosse team's career points record, as it fell, 15-11, to Elizabethtown College in Landmark Conference action at Wolf Field on Friday.
Block finished with seven goals and two assists for nine points, both outpacing her nation-leading averages of 6.3 goals and 7.3 points, as she tied Kelly McGinniss '19 for the program record with 319 points in her career off 266 goals and 53 assists. Her 70 goals this season is tied for sixth in program history and 10 from the program record of 80 held by Meghenn Jackson (2016), Grace Gargiulo (2011) and McGinniss (2019). She is 18 goals shy of the career program record of 284 set by McGinniss. Block also added five draw controls.
Freshman Molly Giufre finished with three goals and an assist and first-year Julie Dammes posted a goal, three ground balls and five draw controls. Freshman Rachel Crawford also added two caused turnovers and first-year Lilian Quigley posted an assist.
Elizabethtown (7-4, 2-2) scored first before the Warriors (3-8, 0-4) tied the game three.
• Junior goalkeeper Evan Donnelly made 20 saves for the Lycoming College men’s lacrosse team, which fell 24-0 in a Landmark Conference matchup against Elizabethtown College. Donnelly eclipsed 20 saves for the third time this season, finishing just two shy of his career high for Lycoming (2-8, 0-4 Landmark).
Donnelly and freshman Samuel Hall each had three groundballs and senior Cole Slezak caused two turnovers.
Elizabethtown (4-8, 3-1 Landmark) was led by Reese Levinson (six goals, three assists) and Tristan Coleman (four goals, five assists), who each registered nine points and Jay Rodriguez added four goals.
• The Lock Haven women's tennis team returned to action by traveling to Edinboro for a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference match. Edinboro came out on top by a score of 6-1.
Lock Haven's Hope Lapinski and Maggie Blasetti won by default at No. 3 doubles, while Blassetti won by default at No. 6 singles.
BOYS TENNIS
Lewisburg 5, Hughesville 0
SINGLES
1. Canyon Swartzentruber (L) def. Kevin Bobak, 6-0, 6-1; 2. Henry Heintzelman (L) def. Luke Ragan, 6-0, 6-1; 3. Luke Azeredo (L) def. Michael Swales, 6-0, 6-1
DOUBLES
1. Colby Jacob/Tyson Nicholls (L) def. Luke Vermeine/Bailey Spring, 6-2, 6-2; 2. Clark Nicholls/Olin Mcllwaine (L) def. Carter Haines/Landon Hull, 6-0, 6-0
Records: Lewisburg (5-0). Next match: Shikellamy at Lewisburg, Monday, 4 p.m.