PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia University dropped a pair of non-conference seven-inning contests to visiting Bloomsburg University, 6-2 and 8-2, Wednesday afternoon on Alumni Field.

GAME ONE
The opening contest was scoreless unless Bloomsburg (10-5) opened the third with a double by Tyler Benson and an Austin Edgette RBI double to put the visitors up 1-0. Two batters later, Ryan Kirman stroked a single to left field, plating Edgette to double the advantage. The Huskies took a 3-0 lead on a throwing error that allowed Damin Muth to score from second inning.

Bloomsburg increased the advantage to 5-0 in two innings later thanks to back-to-back one-out home runs off the bats of Kirman and Joey Casselbury.

Philadelphia (3-7) was able to get a run back in the last of the fifth as David McTaggart (Wilmington, Del./St. Elizabeth) followed up consecutive one-out doubles from Christian Rosario (Rockville Centre, N.Y./Freeport) and Michael Melendez (Lansdale, Pa./Christopher Dock) with a ground out to second, scoring Rosario from third to make the score 5-1.

After Bloomsburg pushed a single run across in its half of the sixth, Timothy Brodhag (Warminster, Pa./William Tennett) got a hold of a Zach Newmyer pitch and drove it over the right-center field fence for his first collegiate home run to make the score 6-2.

Newmyer went all seven innings, scattering seven hits and striking out seven, to earn the win. Jonathan Gottschall (Reading, Pa./Governor Mifflin)—the second of four pitchers used by the Rams—took the loss after allowing all three runs, two earned, in the third.

Behind three hits from Benson and two more from Edgette and Kirman, the Huskies outhit the Rams 13-7.

Brodhag recorded two hits in three at-bats to lead the Philadelphia offense.

GAME TWO
The Rams fell behind 3-0 in the second game as the Huskies scored twice in the first and once more in the third.

Steven Wells (Yardley, Pa./The Hun School) got the Rams' half of the fourth inning off to a great start, putting an Alex Carpenter pitch over the right-center field fence for his third homer of the season.

With one out, Philadelphia was able to put runners at the corners as Dan Klusman (Wilmington, Del./St. Elizabeth) singles and went to second on a wild pitch, and Jeffery Briggs delivered an infield base hit. Matthew McGee (Forrest Hill, Md./John Carroll) cashed in by dropping a perfect sacrifice bunt to plate Klusman and bring the Rams within one.

Bloomsburg reclaimed its' three-run lead in the fifth with two runs and tacked on three more in the seventh.

Carpenter went the first six innings, allowed two runs on six hits, and fanned seven to earn the win. Luke Floer (Brewster, N.Y./North Salem) suffered the loss after giving up three runs—one earned—on three hits. Floer struck out three.

Shane Woelfel, Muth, and Edgette all had two hits for Bloomsburg. Muth had three RBIs, while Woelfel added two. Klusman paced the Philadelphia six-hit attack with two hits in two at-bats.

Philadelphia welcomes Le Moyne to Alumni Field for a four-game weekend set, starting on Saturday, March 12 at 11 a.m.