YORK, PA – The York College baseball team won the first game of the three game MAC Commonwealth weekend series against Hood on Friday with a 12-5 victory in York.
The Spartans took the lead in the second inning and maintained that advantage the remainder of the game.
York improves to 10-10 overall and 6-1 in the league while the Blazers are now 6-16 overall and 2-5 in the conference.
 
Runs: York 12 – Hood 5
Hits: York 14 – Hood 11
Errors: York 1 – Hood 3
LOB: York 6 – Hood 8
WP: Evan Hughes (3-1); LP: Skyler Albright (2-4)
 
How It Happened
• The Blazers reached Spartan starter Evan Hughes for a pair of runs in the second on a single, a double and back-to-back squeeze bunts to take a quick 2-0 lead. York answered in the bottom of the frame with a five-spot aided by a pair of Hood errors. Ryan Niedzialkowski got the first run home with a bases loaded walk. Chris Nesensohn tied the game at two on a sacrifice fly. Lucas Prendergast gave York a lead they would not relinquish with an RBI single to right. The second error allowed York to score their fourth run and the fifth came when Michael Tinneny got into a rundown allowing Prendergast to score from third on the play.
• York added to the lead in the fourth inning. Prendergast ripped a two-run double to right center and he came around to score on a Tinneny RBI single as the Spartan lead grew to 8-2. The Blazers got a pair of those runs back in the fifth as Hood got a single and a double to lead off the inning to put runners at second and third with no outs. Hughes got a strikeout and a foul out but surrendered a single to third baseman Matthew Stout to make it 8-4. Hood added a single run in the sixth on a Spartan error, cutting the Spartan advantage to 8-5.
• York got that run back in the sixth as Nesensohn walked and moved to third on a Prendergast single. After a shallow fly out, Nesensohn scored on a Tinneny ground out for the 9-5 advantage.
• The Spartans closed out the scoring in the seventh inning. Jacob Deimling led off the inning with an opposite field single. He moved to second on a wild pitch and then to third on a Joe Urban sacrifice bunt. Deimling rode home a pitch later as Matthew Wade blasted a no-doubt-about-it two-run homer to left field. Niedzialkowski then singled, moved to second on a wild pitch and scored on a Nesensohn RBI double to right center for the 12-5 lead.
• Jason Cassidy got three outs on six pitches in the eighth and Jesse Bitzer closed out the game in the ninth as the Spartans earned their sixth league win of the year.
 
Spartan Offensive Leaders
Lucas Prendergast: 3-for-5, 2 runs, 3 RBI, 2B
Matthew Wade: 2-for-4, 2 runs, 2 RBI, HR
Michael Tinneny: 2-for-4, 2 RBI, BB
Ryan Niedzialkowski: 2-for-3, 3 runs, 1 RBI, BB
Chris Nesensohn: 2-for-2, 2 runs, 2 RBI, BB
 
Spartan Pitching
Evan Hughes: 5.0 IP, 7 hits, 4 ER, 9 K, 0 BB
Bryce Shaffer: 2.0 IP, 2 hits, 1 run, 0 ER, 3 K, 0 BB
Jason Cassidy: 1.0 IP, 0 hits, 0 runs
Jesse Bitzer: 1.0 IP, 2 hits, 0 runs
 
Spartan Notes
The Spartans are now 11-5 all-time against Hood as they snapped a three game Blazer win streak in the series after Hood swept the Spartans in last year's match-up … the Spartan pitching was solid on Friday as York did not walk a batter for the first time this year … York also struck out 12 with nine whiffs coming from starter Evan Hughes … the Spartans scored in double digits for the sixth time this year … York has 38 runs on 44 hits in their last three games … York struck out just three times in the win, their second-lowest total of the year … York had just their fifth sacrifice bunt of the year in the game while they had their 11^th sacrifice fly … the Spartans have outscored their league opponents 78-47 in seven games … the Spartan pitchers have struck out 52 and walked just 14 in league play … Michael Tinneny extended his hit streak to 20 games while Lucas Prendergast now has an active 14 game hit streak … Predergast has his fourth three-hit game of the year as he now has seven multiple hit games … Tinneny leads the team with 11 multi-hit games … Matthew Wade had his fifth multi-hit game of the year including his third home run of the campaign … Ryan Niedzialkowski and Chris Nesensohn each had third third multi-hit game of the season … Tinneny had his seventh multi-RBI game of the year while Nesensohn is right behind him with six … Wade had his fifth multi-RBI game of the year while Prendergast now has four multi-RBI games … Tinneny (20 games), Jacob Deimling (20 games) and Prendergast (17 games) each have lengthy reached base safely streak … Hughes improved to 2-0 in conference play as he has now struck out 21 in 18 innings … Hughes tied his career high with nine punch outs in the win … Bryce Shaffer continues to shine in conference play as he is 2-0 in four relief appearances in league play … Shaffer has struck out 17 in 13.1 innings pitched out of the pen.
 
Up Next
The teams conclude the three-game series with a doubleheader on Saturday in Frederick, Maryland. Game one, a seven inning contest, begins at 12:00 pm followed by the nine inning second game around 25 minutes after game one.