Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 WASHINGTON, Pa. – Ken Morgan and Jon Kemmer each ran their current hitting streaks to eight games, but the Clarion University baseball team was swept in a doubleheader by California Saturday afternoon at Consol Energy Park in Washington, Pa.
 
Clarion (7-21 overall, 5-11 PSAC West) lost Game One 3-2 despite a strong outing from Brett Whitman on the mound and then dropped Game Two 7-2.
 
Morgan had two hits in each game to give him a team-leading 13 multiple-hit games on the season, while Kemmer had a hit in each contest. The eight-game hit streaks ties both players for the second longest by a Golden Eagle this season behind Morgan's nine-game run.
 
Whitman also turned his best pitching performance of the year throwing a three-hit complete game allowing three earned runs. He walked two and struck out one.
 
Clarion took a 2-0 lead in the first inning of Game One when Morgan, who was 2-for-4 with a run scored, an RBI and a double, doubled home Kemmer, who had singled with one out. Morgan then scored when Bill Hasson, who was also 2-for-4 on the day, singled and Cal committed an error.
 
The Vulcans answered back with two runs in the second and then scored the eventual game-winning run on a fourth-inning home run.
 
In Game Two, Cal scored four times off starter and loser T.J. Anderson in the third before Clarion cut the lead to 4-2 with a pair of runs in the fourth.  
 
Morgan, who was 2-for-4 with another run scored and another double in the game, and Hasson led off the inning with back-to-back singles before Josh Beimel loaded the bases when he reached on an error. Cole Heffner then drove home both runs with a single.
 
But Cal answered with a three-spot off Anderson – two of the runs were unearned – in the sixth to put the game away.
 
Kemmer was 1-for-3 in the game, and Anderson went six innings allowing seven runs, five earned, on eight hits and six walks while striking out three.
 
Clarion returns to action at 1 p.m. Tuesday when it hosts Point Park in one nine-inning game.
 
NOTES –Jerico Weitzel and Matt Rossi also had eight-game hit streaks for Clarion this season.