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THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE WILKES UNIVERSITY COLONELS
THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE WILKES UNIVERSITY COLONELS WILKES UNIVERSITY COLONELS
Ben Kramer
8
Winner Wilkes University WUBB 17-20
7
Scranton SCRBB15 21-13
Winner
Wilkes University WUBB
17-20
8
Final
7
Scranton SCRBB15
21-13
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Wilkes University WUBB 0 1 0 0 1 2 2 1 1 8 13 2
Scranton SCRBB15 0 2 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 7 8 4

W: Roedell, Jeff (0-0) L: Chromey (0-0)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Colonels Baseball Wins Season Finale at Scranton 8-7

Colonel Baseball Wins Season Finale at Scranton 8-7
 
SCRANTON, PA – The Colonels broke a 7-7 tie in the top of the 9th as they defeated the Royals 8-7 on Tuesday afternoon.
 
Wilkes ends the 2015 season with an 18-20 record while Scranton drops to 21-13 entering their league playoffs.
 
Joe Champi (Dupont, PA/Pittston) put the Colonels on the scoreboard with a solo shot in the top of the 2nd inning.  Scranton took a 5-1 lead after four innings of play before Wilkes rallied scoring one run in the 5th and two in the top of the 6th to make it a 5-4 game.
 
After Scranton added two runs in the bottom of the 6th to go up 7-4, Wilkes was able to get two back in the 7th after a Joshua Slocum (Clarks Summit, PA/Abington Heights) RBI double to center and a Bobby Schappell (Pottsville, PA/Pottsville) double to left made it a 7-6 game.  Tanner Smith (Upper Black Eddy, PA/Palisades) hit a game-tying sac fly in the top of the 8th scoring James Brown (Covington, PA/North Pocono) from third.
 
Wilkes scored the game-winning run in the top of the 9th on an error the sixth unearned run allowed by Scranton on the day.
 
Champi concluded his freshman year with a monster day from the plate going 4-for-5 with a home run, one RBI and three runs scored.  Brown finished 3-for-5 with two runs scored.  Senior Dan Pisanchyn (Clarks Summit, PA/Abington Heights) was 1-for-4 with two RBI's in his final collegiate game while Schappell finished with two hits, an RBI and a run scored in his last game.  Marcus Leaf (Reading, PA/Berks Catholic) went five innings on the hill allowing six hits, five runs (four earned) while striking out five.  Jeff Roedell (Perkasie, PA/Pennridge) collected the win for the Colonels striking out one while allowing no runs or hits in two innings of relief.
 
 
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