The 21st-ranked Belmont Abbey baseball team won both games of its doubleheader against the visiting Bloomsburg Huskies, taking game one 6-0 and coming from behind to win game two, 11-10 in seven innings. The Abbey is now 14-4-1, while Bloomsburg drops to 3-6.

In the second game the Abbey scored the first eight runs, then watched as Bloomsburg scored ten unanswered, but the Abbey scored three times in the final inning, capped off by an Anthony Dimino walk off single to plate the winning run.

The first game was all Belmont Abbey, as the Crusaders scored two runs in both the third and fourth innings, and added another in the fifth.

John Pilla, who finished three for four in game one, gave starting pitcher Cody Stull the only run he would need in the fourth. After a one out double by Gabby Amor, Pilla laced a single to left to bring him home with the game's first run. Pilla scored the second run as he moved to third on a single by Ian Vazquez and scored on a error on a pickoff attempt to nab Vazquez at third.

One inning later the lead doubled as Levi Wright blasted his third homer of the year, a two-run shot to left that also scored Ryan Allen, who doubled earlier.

In the fifth the Abbey closed the scoring as Kennan Stanley worked a leadoff walk, stole second and scored on Michael Falsetti's double to left center.

Stull did the rest, as he worked seven and two-thirds innings, scattering six hits and striking out three. He did walk four. Stull worked out a jam in the top of the first as the Huskies loaded the bases with one out, but he ended the threat with two strikeouts. Parks Smithey pitched the final inning and a third, allowing just one hit. Bloomsburg starter Kyle Hunter took the loss. He gave up four runs on seven hits in three and one-thirds innings.

Belmont Abbey totaled 13 hits as Pilla and Vazquez both led the way with three each. Wright and Amor had two each. Brad Smith and Joey Casselberry both led the Huskies with two hits apiece. Bloomsburg finished with seven.

In game two, which was only seven innings, the Crusaders scored the first eight runs of the game as they plated five in the second, with the big blow coming on Pilla's two RBI double. Pilla later scored on a double by Levi Wright, Adam Venditti scored on a wild pitch, and Wright scored on a groundout by Ryan Allen.

Two frames later the lead grew to 8-0 as Stanley ripped a two RBI single, and Pilla scored on a Vazquez double.

Bloomsburg began its comeback in the top of the fifth as it scored seven times to trim the Abbey's lead to one. The first six Husky batters of the inning reached base, five by base hit, before a strikeout by Kyle Rogers halted the threat momentarily. Rogers then hit Casselberry with the bases loaded which scored another run, followed by a walk. After an infield fly, Brian Almand delivered a two RBI single to cut the Abbey's lead to one. Rogers was then lifted for Smithey, who recorded the final out. The Crusaders used three pitchers in the frame.

The following inning the Huskies claimed their first lead of the series as they scored three runs on two hits, the first of which came on Casselberry's two RBI single that moved Bloomsburg ahead for the first time. Cassleberry extended the lead to two when he scored on a wild pitch.

That was all of the scoring until the bottom of the seventh when the Abbey seized the win. Pagan led off the inning reaching on an error. After Falsetti struck out, pinch hitter Matt Mazzolla was plunked in the back on the very first pitch, and was lifted for pinch runner Connor Kwalwasser. Pilla struck again, as he carved a double into the gap in left center, scoring Pagan to cut the Abbey deficit to 10-9. After Wright was hit by a pitch to load the bases, Kwalwasser scored the tying run when Vazquez drew a base on balls on a 3-2 count. Allen followed with a flyout to shallow center, which brought Dimino to the plate, and he roped a single back through the box, scoring Pilla, for the game winning run.

Smithey, the fourth and final pitcher of the day for the Crusaders, was credited with the win after allowing three runs, one earned, on four hits in the final two and one-thirds innings. He fanned two and walked one. Matthew Dean, who entered the game in the sixth inning, took the loss after giving up three runs, one earned, on two hits.

Both teams finished with 11 hits as Pilla totaled three in three at bats, as he finished six for seven in both games. He drove in three runs. Vazquez and Stanley both drove in a pair of runs.

Almand led the Huskies with three hits. He also had two RBI. Casselberry collected two hits and led the way with three RBI.

Game 1 Box

Game 2 Box