CRESSON, Pa. – The Clarion baseball team exploded for a season-high 17 runs, including 11 in a wild sixth inning, as the Golden Eagles rolled over Mount Aloysius 17-10 on Tuesday.  Clarion has now won two straight and is 3-6 overall on the season.  They will open PSAC play on Friday against California.
 
Tyler Falk went 2-of-4 with two runs and a team-high three RBIs, and also reached base twice on walks.  All told four members of the Golden Eagles produced two or more hits, with three of those four – John Finke, Falk, and Matt Kamenicky – driving in two or more runs as well.  The top two batters in the lineup, Mitch Holmberg and Josh Ponsoll, each scored three runs.
 
Alex Borofski gave up six runs in 5.0 innings pitched, striking out four and walking just one.  Jake Arienzo and Brendan Fitzgerald bridged the gap to Jay Moog, who pitched a scoreless ninth in relief.
 
The highlight of the game with the sixth inning in which Clarion broke a 6-6 tie with an 11-run eruption to build an insurmountable lead.  Things became dire for Mount Aloysius as they did not record an out until Finke – on base for the second time in the inning – was thrown out at third base from centerfield, and after the Golden Eagles had scored their 11th run of the inning.
 
Finke started things off with a two-run double to bring home Holmberg and Ponsoll, and he eventually scored after a catcher's error put Mike Lockhart on base.  Clarion kept things churning on the basepaths by working for walks and hustling to force errors, with Mason McGuire and Kamenicky making it 11-6 with back-to-back RBI singles.  Zach Mathias drove home McGuire and Tyler Delval with a two-run single to make it 13-6, and Lockhart bashed  two-run single to score Ponsoll and Holmberg to make it 17-6.
 
Clarion struck first in the game when Falk drove in Lockhart with an RBI double, but the Mounties responded with two runs in the bottom of the second to take the lead.  The Golden Eagles recaptured the lead when Falk hit a one-out, two-run single in the third to make it 4-2, but again Mount Aloysius countered, this time tying it at 4-4 on a two-run home run in the bottom of the third.  The teams traded runs back and forth until the top of the sixth, when Clarion's big inning made the comeback chances slim and none for the Mounties.