ANNVILLE, Pa. –
Kyle Kingsbury shut down the York College of Pennsylvania offense with 11 strikeouts to lead the Lebanon Valley College baseball team to a huge 13-3 victory over the Spartans at McGill Field on Friday afternoon. The victory gave the Dutchmen a season sweep over York in the first conference series of the year.
The first five outs Kingsbury recorded were strikeouts on a windy day in Annville. The Spartans (8-11, 0-2 MAC Commonwealth) got on the board first with a run in the second inning. LVC (14-8, 2-0 MAC Commonwealth) responded with a three-run third to take the lead.
Mike Bulgia hit a three-run homer and the Dutchmen added another run in the fifth to take a 7-1 lead. York scored a run in the seventh before the Dutchmen put the game away with six runs in the bottom of the inning. The Spartans scored their last run in the ninth.
Inside the Box Score
- Kingsbury pitched seven great innings and made it easy for the fielders on an extremely windy day with a career-high 11 strikeouts. The senior allowed just two runs on four hits and two walks. He recorded at least one strikeout in every inning but the sixth including having three strikeouts in the first and fourth innings. He needed just eight pitches in a 1-2-3 sixth inning.
- Ryan Petrucci gave the Dutchmen the lead with a two-RBI single to center in the third after Luke Blair scored on a wild pitch. Petrucci finished with three hits, two runs scored, and two RBIs.
- Bulgia crushed a ball over the left field fence in the fifth scoring Nico Santoro and Max Kaplan to extend the lead to 6-1. Shane Stossel knocked in a run a few batters later and then hit a two-RBI single to center in the seventh.
- Kaplan and Santoro also had two-RBI hits in the seventh inning as the Dutchmen put the game away. Kaplan finished with two hits on the day while Santoro had three. Luke Blair had two hits and scored two runs. Conor Smith was the sixth Dutchman to have a multi-hit game with two hits.
- Bryce Eberly and Sam Dozier pitched the eighth and ninth innings in relief of Kingsbury.
- The Dutchmen complete the season sweep of York and records the program's first wins over the Spartans since a 12-11 victory in Annville on April 4, 2007.
Who's Next
LVC will be back on McGill Field tomorrow afternoon for a conference doubleheader against Messiah University. Game one will begin at 12 p.m. with both games scheduled to be nine innings.
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