CLARION, Pa. --- The Golden Eagle baseball team hosted Wheeling in a midweek clash on Tuesday afternoon, with Clarion falling by a 19-2 score to the Cardinals at Memorial Stadium.
 
The Cardinals got an effective pitching performance from Sonny Peluchette, with the starter going five innings and allowing just four hits. The Wheeling bullpen did a similar job, allowing just two runs in four innings of action.
 
The highlight of the day came from freshman Brycen Dinkfelt, who got his first collegiate hit in grand fashion in the eighth inning. The first-year player entered the game late, coming to the plate with one out after Kasey Shughart reached on a single to left field. He crushed a pitch from Josh Wessler deep over the fence in left field, giving him his first career hit and home run and putting the Golden Eagles on the scoreboard.
 
Clarion did strand seven baserunners over the course of the game, including in moments when the outcome was still in question. Caden Contant hit a one-out single to left field and advanced to second on a wild pitch in the first inning, but he was stranded in scoring position as the Cardinals recorded two outs to end the inning. This was after the Cardinals scored four runs in the top of the first inning to take the lead, but neither side got onto the scoreboard again until the sixth inning. That was the frame where Wheeling did a load of damage, scoring 10 runs on seven hits to build a 14-0 lead.
 
The Cardinals tacked on five more runs in the top of the ninth inning, giving themselves a 19-2 advantage.
 
Emerson Abromavage went 2-for-4 at the dish with a pair of singles, while Shughart, Contant and Dinkfelt all added hits. Starter Joe Rossi gave up four runs in the first inning but settled after that, throwing two scoreless innings after that, while Logan Schlegel added a pair of goose eggs in the fourth and fifth innings.
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