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CHILLICOTHE, Ohio -- Slippery Rock University swept a doubleheader from Tiffin University in season-opening baseball action Saturday afternoon at VA Memorial Stadium.
Junior right-hander
Lou Trivino (right picture) pitched a one-hit, complete-game shutout to lead SRU to a 2-0 win in the first game. He struck out seven and walked four in seven innings.
An RBI single by junior third baseman
Graeme Zaparzynski with no outs in the bottom of the 10th inning gave The Rock a 2-1 win in the second game.
Zaparzynski also scored the first, and ultimate winning, run in Game 1 after earning a one-out walk and stealing second base in the bottom of the first inning. He scored on a ground out by junior designated hitter
Kevin Jovanovich.
A sacrifice fly by sophomore third baseman
Jake Nogalo plated the second Rock run in Game 1. Nogalo had a pair of singles to pace a five-hit Rock attack in the game.
Junior center fielder
Jake Weibley (left picture) was 3-for-4 with a single, double and triple as The Rock's leadoff hitter to lead a seven-hijth Rock attack in Game 2.
Weibley smacked an RBI triple to push across senior DH
Jamison Walck, who had drawn a leadoff walk, with SRU's first Game 2 run in the bottom of the third inning.
Weibley opened the bottom of the 10th inning with a double and sprinted home on Zaparzynski's single to score the winning run.
Junior right-hander
John Kovalik was the Game 2 winning pitcher in relief of starter
Mike Dunn, a fellow junior right-hander. Kovalik struck out four, walked two and held Tiffin to three hits in five scoreless innings of work. Dunn allowed one earned run on five hits, struck out one and walked one in the first five innings.
The Rock and Tiffin will close out their four-game weekend series with a noon doubleheader Sunday on the artificial-turfed home of the Prospect League (summer wooden-bat) Chillicothe Paints.
