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ANNVILLE, Pa. - Arcadia swept Friday's doubleheader to win the series with a pair of wins, 4-3 and 7-2, over Lebanon Valley.

LVC had won the opener on Thursday, 9-2, but its bats fell silent against some tough Arcadia pitching at McGill Field. Despite the losses, the Dutchmen (18-13, 9-9 CC) remain two games ahead of Elizabethtown for the fourth and final Commonwealth Conference tournament spot, and still control their own destiny heading into the final league series next weekend against E-town.

Phill Dohner drove in all three runs, including a two-run home run, in the opener, and Brett Fundell had a two-run single in game two. Arcadia pitching dominated the day, with John Lloyd and Michael Nessel combining a pair of complete game victories.

Game One
Dohner's two-run home run in the seventh brought LVC within a run of sending the game to extra innings, but a rally never materialized as Arcadia won 4-3.

Base hits by Eliott Freeman and Taylor Schon sparked a two-run third inning for Arcadia, but LVC cut the lead to 2-1 when Dohner ripped a bases-loaded single through the right side to score Mike Specht in the fifth.

Arcadia put the eventual winning runs across in the sixth, with Jordan Draude singling Freeman in before scoring on George Pagan's base hit. In the seventh, Zac Edwards reached base and, with two outs, Dohner blasted a homer to left. Zach Smith singled on the next at-bat to represent the tying run, but was caught out on Tim Filer's fielder's choice to end the game.

Casey Wall (2-1) departed after three innings, allowing two runs; Corey Sell threw three innings of relief and Mike Wakalowski pitched the ninth. Lloyd (2-3) allowed eight LVC hits in the complete game.


Game Two
Arcadia took control of the game with a big third inning while Nessel shut down LVC's bats in a 7-2 game two decision.

Starter Austin Hornberger had trouble settling in as Freeman singled in a pair of runs in the first, but Fundell's two-run single to left brought in Eric Leymeister and Jordan Higgins to tie it 2-2 in the second.

Arcadia put together a big third inning with singles by Freeman and Jay Zehring sandwiched around Jordan Draude's sacrifice fly to lead 5-2, and they added two more insurance runs in the fourth with an RBI by Freeman and an inning-extending error to allow Andonis Yiantsos to score.

Hornberger (2-3) allowed five earned in two innings, facing three batters in the third; Jimmie Miller threw two innings of relief, Jason Barthold was perfect in the fifth and sixth, and Brent McDowell finished it out. Nessel (2-3) struck out seven in a 117-pitch outing, never allowing LVC to seriously threaten outside of the second inning.