Box Score

The Albright College baseball team got 19 hits, including two or more from six different players, in a 14-2 home victory over Valley Forge Christian College.

Sophomore Mark Minnig had his first collegiate multi-hit game, going 2-for-3 in the leadoff spot. Classmate Alex Myers was 3-for-3 with an RBI, while John Medvecky went 3-for-4 and knocked in a pair of runs.

Also recording multiple hits were Dylan Price (2-for-2, 2 runs), Dylan Boll (2-for-2, 3 RBIs, 2 runs) and Ben Vitelli (2-for-3, 2 RBIs).

Senior Tyler Meckley opened the scoring by launching a solo homer over the left field wall. Collin Hecker nearly followed that with an inside-the-park four-bagger, but the ball rolled out-of-bounds for a ground rule double.

Boll's sacrifice scored Hecker for a 2-0 lead. Medvecky doubled in the top of the second, but the Lions would strand runners on second and third with one out.

Myers made a nice stab deep at short to get the third out in the top of the third, and then bettered that with an extremely tough play to get the first out in the fourth.

In the meantime, Boll had doubled in Meckley and Hecker, and scored on Myers' single, to push the Lion lead to 5-0.

Valley Forge finally got on the board with two runs in the fifth, but the Lions responded with three in the bottom half to take an 8-2 lead.

Junior Brian Kurtz made his second pitching appearance of the season in the seventh, putting the Patriots down 1-2-3 in the seventh. Aaron Forker also throw a perfect eighth, while freshman Ryan McGoff (6 IP, 5 Ks) earned his first win.

Vitelli doubled during a two-run seventh for Albright. Freshman David Cotellese nearly brought runs in with the bases loaded, but the VFCC center fielder made a diving catch the end the stanza.

The Lions improve to 12-16 overall, and will host local rival Alvernia tomorrow at 3 p.m.