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HASSON HOMERS BUT BASEBALL DROPS DH AT SHIPPENSBURG

Bill Hasson had a HR in the fourth inning of Game Two

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – Despite a home run and two runs scored by Bill Hasson in Game Two, the Clarion University baseball team was swept in a doubleheader at Shippensburg Saturday afternoon.
 
The Golden Eagles dropped Game One 5-0 and Game Two 13-3.
 
In the second game, Hasson was 1-for-3 with a sole home run leading off the fourth. He was also hit by a pitch and scored an unearned run in the fifth.
 
Clarion grabbed a 1-0 lead in the top of the first when Derek Danver singled home Drew Pirritano who started the inning by getting hit by a pitch, was sacrificed to second and stole third.
 
Shippensburg, though, scored four times in the third to take a 4-1 lead.
 
The Golden Eagles got back in the game on the Hasson home run, but the Raiders scored twice more in the bottom of the fourth and then exploded for seven runs in the fifth to put the game away.
 
Clarion got its final run in the top of the fifth when Hasson scored when Joey Lopez reached on an error.
 
Brett Whitman took the loss going four-plus innings allowing eight runs, six earned, on seven hits and two hit batters. Kevin Gnacinski allowed five runs, two earned, on four hits and a walk while not recording an out. Cameron Damski pitched the final two innings scoreless allowing two hits and a walk.
 
In Game One, Clarion's best chances to score were in the second and fourth.
 
In the second when Mike Lockhart and Lopez had back-to-back singles with two outs, but Lopez was picked off first by the catcher ending the inning.    
 
Jordan Mesoraco led off the fourth with a double but was left at second.
 
Shippensburg, meanwhile, scored twice in the second and three more times in the fourth.
 
Tyler Delval took the loss allowing four earned runs, five overall, in six innings allowing eight hits and three walks while striking out three.
 
Clarion (1-37) returns to action Sunday at Bloomsburg.  
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