Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Joey Lopez's one-out RBI, walk-off single up the middle scored Derek Danver to give Clarion its first win of the season, 2-1, over Slippery Rock in PSAC West baseball action Friday afternoon at Slippery Rock's Critchfield Park.
 
The win gave the Golden Eagles a split of Friday's doubleheader after Slippery Rock won the first contest 20-5. Clarion was the home team in both games despite the games being in Slippery Rock. The contests were moved to Critchfield Park earlier in the week when it was determined Clarion's field was going to be unplayable.
 
In the nightcap, Danver got the seventh-inning rally started with a single to right and Jordan Mesoraco followed with a double to right. Slippery Rock manager Jeff Messer then chose to pitch to Lopez, who was 0-for-2 with a pair of groundouts in the game, and the freshman from Blackhawk High School made him pay with the game-winning hit.
 
Junior lefty Caleb McGary was a big reason the Golden Eagles were able to pick up the victory, as he pitched a complete-game two-hitter allowing just one earned run while walking one and striking out two.
 
Clarion staked the southpaw to a 1-0 lead with a run in the bottom of the fourth when Danver's two-out RBI double scored Nick Maskrey right after the Golden Eagles had made an out at the plate when Jon Roncolato, who had started the inning with a single up the middle, went to second on a single by Maskrey and took third on an error by the catcher. But after Bill Hasson struck out, Maskrey took second when Roncolato got caught in a run down between home and third.
 
Slippery Rock tied the game with a run in the top of the sixth, as Will Kengor tripled leading off the inning and scored on a sacrifice fly to center by Jake Nogalo.
 
Danver had two of Clarion's nine hits, the third-most hits in a game this year by the Golden Eagles.  
 
In the first game, things started badly for the Golden Eagles from the start with Slippery Rock scoring seven times in the first inning off of losing pitcher Brett Whitman. Whitman lasted just one inning allowing the seven runs on six hits and two walks.
 
The Rock added four more runs in the second, one in the third and four in the fifth to take a 19-0 lead before Clarion got a run back in the bottom of the fifth when Danver, Mesoraco and Lopez led off the inning with single and Drew Pirritano brought home Danver with an RBI groundout.
 
Slippery Rock made it 20-1 with a run in the top of the seventh before Clarion scored four times in the bottom of the seventh on four hits. Pirritano had an RBI groundout that scored Lopez, who had singled. Nick Maskrey then had an RBI single scoring Mike Lockhart who had doubled and Bill Hasson had a two-run single that scored Jon Roncolato and Maskrey.
 
Lockhart, Maskrey and Danver were each 2-for-4 in the game with Lopez going 2-for-3.
 
Sam Skraba relieved Whitman in the second and allowed eight runs, all earned, on 10 hits and a walk in three innings of work. Ken DiBucci finished up going three innings and allowing five runs, four earned, on five hits and a walk while striking out one.    
 
With the split Clarion improves to 1-15 overall and 1-5 in the PSAC West. Slippery Rock falls to 16-7 overall and 3-3 in the PSAC West. The Golden Eagles return to action with a pair of games at Slippery Rock Saturday starting at 1 p.m.
 
NOTES – It was the first walk-off win for the Golden Eagles since they beat IUP 3-2 April 13, 2012, on a Scott Berkes RBI single that scored pinch runner Drew Pirritano in the bottom of the seventh … It marked the third time in the last three years Clarion has won a game over Slippery Rock at Critchfield Park, where the Golden Eagles are now 3-3 in their last six games played there.