CLARION, Pa. --- The Golden Eagles baseball team broke or approached a handful of single-game program records in a win on Tuesday night, as Clarion beat Penn State – DuBois 18-2 at Showers Field.
Clarion went off for 22 hits, the most ever for a single game in program history and breaking the previous mark of 20 set against Baruch during the 2008 season. Their 18 runs was just one off the program record set in that same game against Baruch, and tied for second-most in a game in school history with an 18-run output against Point Park in 2005.
The offensive explosion started early and lasted for essentially the entire nine-inning game, with three Golden Eagles recording three hits –
Griffin Snyder,
Randy Carlo and
Ethan Giangiulio. Carlo belted his team-high seventh home run of the season in the process, hitting a three-run homer in the fourth inning to give Clarion a 9-0 lead; he finished with a team-high four RBIs.
Ethan McNally and
Doran Mast each drove in a pair of runs.
Giangiulio and Carlo hit back-to-back RBI singles in the top of the first inning, giving Clarion a 2-0 lead, and
Cole Yeager drew a bases-loaded walk to bring in a third run in that frame. A balk later in the inning gave Clarion their fourth run, with Carlo scoring on the bases loaded to make it 4-0.
Snyder hit an RBI double in the top of the second and later scored from third, giving Clarion a lead of a half-dozen runs after two innings. Carlo extended that lead to nine runs in the top of the fourth inning, driving a three-run home run over the fence.
Caden Contant and Mast both drove in runs to make it 11-0 and
Tyson Gill capped the fourth inning rally with an RBI single to center field.
Clarion tacked on six more runs over the course of the game, including an RBI double by McNally, while the pitching staff kept the Nittany Lions under wraps. Yeager got the start on the mound and threw three shutout innings, followed by two scoreless from
Ryan Gallagher. A quintet of pitchers pushed the Golden Eagles through the remainder of the game, with
Aiden Hartle and
Carter Barrett also adding scoreless innings of relief.
