OWINGS MILLS, Md. – The Albright baseball team scored its most runs in a game in six years when it defeated Stevenson, 21-4, in the second game of the teams' doubleheader Saturday. Stevenson won the first game of the doubleheader, 3-1.
Albright opened game two with a huge first inning. After one out,
Jimmie Gentry,
Jeff Yordy and
Noah Beebe all reached on singles to load the bases. An infield single by
Joe Suppa scored the team's first run while still leaving the bases loaded.
Tanner Brescancine singled home Yordy to make it 2-0. After
Logan Pennypacker brought in another run to make it 3-0,
Jesse Fikslin singled home Suppa and Brescancine to make it 5-0.
Austin Roth scored Pennypacker with a single to center field to make it 6-0, and
Logan Adams rounded out the huge inning with a double to left center to score Fikslin to make it 7-0.
Fikslin singled home Brescancine to make it 8-0 in the second inning. After Stevenson got a run back in the bottom of the second inning, Albright hit double figures with two more runs in the top of the third. Gentry led off with a double, and Yordy was hit by a pitch. Beebe brought them both home with a double to right center to make it 10-1.
Stevenson made it 10-3 in the bottom of the third inning, and the score stayed that way until the fifth inning. Beebe doubled home
Brandon Daubert to make it 11-3, and the Lions added two more runs in the frame thanks to a pair of Stevenson errors to push the lead to 13-3.
Gentry made it 15-4 with a two-run home run in the sixth inning, and the Lions offense still wasn't done. Albright scored its first two runs in the seventh inning thanks to bases loaded walks, and Albright ended up surpassing the 20-run mark when
Tyler Keller singled home
Will Tokarski. Albright made it 21-4 when Suppa singled home Gentry.
Gentry went 4-for-6 with four runs scored and two RBIs, and Suppa was 3-for-6 with three runs scored and two RBIs. Beebe was 3-for-4 with three RBIs, and Brescancine scored three runs while walking three times.
Albright hit .522 (12-for-23) with runners in scoring position, and .533 (16-for-30) with runners on base.
The 21 runs for the Lions are the most for the team since their scored 32 against Valley Forge on April 16, 2012.
In game one, Daubert singled home Suppa to make it 1-0 Albright in the top of the second inning. Stevenson got two in its half that inning and added another in the sixth to win the first game, 3-1.
Albright returns to action at Moravian on Tuesday at 4 p.m.
