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LOCK HAVEN, Pa. -- The Rock split a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference-Western Division doubleheader Sunday at Lock Haven.

The hosts (13-25 overall, 3-9 PSAC-West) won Game 1 by a 4-1 count before SRU (18-14, 7-5) bounced back to take Game 2 by a 10-5 margin.

The split, which gave SRU three wins in four games last weekend vs. LHU, drops The Rock into sole possession of fourth place in the PSAC-West standings.

Four-time defending division champion California U. of Pa. sits alone atop the standings with a 9-3 division record, followed by Indiana U. of Pa. and Shippensburg each at 8-4.

The top three teams in the standings at the end of regular-season play will earn berths in the PSAC playoffs May 1-3 at Clipper Magazine Stadium in Lancaster.

The picture for playoff berths from the Western Division will be a lot clearer a week from now. Next weekend's division series pit The Rock against Indiana and California vs. Shippensburg.

The Rock is scheduled to have a final tuneup for the Indiana series on Tuesday, when it will host NCAA Division II North Atlantic Regional rival West Liberty State of West Virginia in a 1 p.m. doubleheader at Jack Critchfield Park.

A solo home run by #M.J. Parsons# (pictured above) to lead off the top of the seventh inning produced the only Rock run in Game 1 Sunday as Lock Haven's Pat Young held SRU to only five hits one day after the Green and White collected 23 hits in Saturday's twinbill at Critchfield Park.

Parsons finished the day with two hits and three RBIs.

Rich Michalek had two of The Rock's Game 1 hits while Billy Herman and Billy Messer each added a single.

Lock Haven had eight hits off Rock pitcher Justin Dickert, who saw his season record fall to 2-2. Three of the hosts' four runs were earned. Dickert struck out five and walked two.

The Rock collected 10 hits in Game 2. Herman and Jim Eimiller each had a pair of hits. Eimiller, Parsons and Scott Bender each had a double and Matt Adams smacked a solo home run to lead off The Rock fifth. Parsons and Eimiller picked up a pair of RBIs each, while Michalek, Herman, Bender and Adams each had one RBI.

SRU took an early 1-0 lead as Bender slapped a two-out double and came home on Herman's RBI single.

Lock Haven made short work of that deficit, though, as the Bald Eagles scored two runs in the bottom of the first.

An RBI single by Michalek in the top of the second scored Billy Messer from second base to tie the score at 2-2 before a bases-loaded walk to Bender gave The Rock a 3-2 lead in the top of the fourth.

That lead was also shortlived as Lock Haven scored three runs in the bottom of the fourth to take a 5-3 lead.

The Rock tied the score at 5-5 with a pair of runs in the top of the fifth and added two more tallies in the sixth to take a 7-5 lead before scoring three times in the top of the seventh to set the final margin.

Adams' solo homer and a sacrifice fly by Matt Messer accounted for SRU's fifth-inning runs before Parsons doubled home two runs in the sixth. An RBI single by Eimiller, a Lock Haven throwing error and a passed ball pushed across the final three runs of the game.

Craig Misiewicz, the second of three pitchers used in the game by Rock head coach Jeff Messer, picked up the win in relief of starter Don Pugliese.

Misiewicz pitched two scoreless innings, allowed one hit and struck out four after Pugliese yielded five runs (three earned) on five hits, struck out four and walked two in the first four innings.

Mike DeCola fanned two in the final frame to close out the game.