INDIANA, Pa. – The Clarion baseball team swung the bats well in two games on Sunday, but were unable to keep up with the IUP Crimson Hawks in dropping both ends of a doubleheader by scores of 14-5 and 8-6.  The Golden Eagles (7-16, 3-9 PSAC West) will be at Bloomsburg on Tuesday.
 
John Finke went 2-of-6 at the plate with a home run and three RBI's, hitting a two-run bomb in the sixth inning of the early game.  Joe Lopez went 3-of-7 with two runs scored and an RBI, and Thomas Connell also drove in a pair of runs on the afternoon.  Lopez took the pitching loss in the second game, allowing four runs in two innings pitched, while Kyler Mellott was dealt the loss in the early game.
 
The Golden Eagles jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first game, scoring in the first on an RBI single from Garrett Goslaw and twice in the second thanks to some aggressive baserunning.  The Crimson Hawks came back with 11 unanswered runs to take the advantage, though, and Clarion didn't get back on the scoreboard until Finke's clout in the sixth inning.  That made the score 11-5, but IUP's Matt Swartz hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the sixth to take a 14-5 advantage.
 
Clarion again held an early lead in the second game, this time by hanging crooked numbers on the scoreboard in the third and fourth innings to take an advantage.  With the bases loaded in the third inning, Lopez rapped a single to the outfield to score Matt Kamenicky, and Finke followed up with another single to cut IUP's lead to 4-2.  Connell then drove in a pair with a single through the right side, tying the game at 4-4.
 
Mitch Holmberg gave Clarion a 5-4 lead in the fourth inning when he pulled a single through the left side to make it 5-4, and Tyler Falk put the Golden Eagles ahead 6-4 with a long double to right center.  The Crimson Hawks tacked on four runs in the fourth inning to take the win, with Swartz punctuating the frame with an RBI single.