SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The Slippery Rock University baseball team recorded a doubleheader sweep against No. 5 Seton Hill Sunday afternoon behind eight strikeouts from Kyle Schneider in game one and three RBI, including a walk-off single, by Ty Zimmerman in game two at Jack Critchfield Park.
 
Slippery Rock never trailed in game one's 4-1 victory while overcoming a four-run deficit in game two to pull off the 7-6 comeback.
 
The wins improve The Rock's record to 19-14 overall and 10-10 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Western Division. Seton Hill falls to 30-6 on the season and 17-3 in league play. The losses also snapped Seton Hill's 19-game winning streak. Slippery Rock is the only team in the PSAC-West to have three total wins against The Griffins and Mercyhurst, the top two teams in the league standings.
 
The top three hitters in Slippery Rock's lineup combined to go 9-for-18 with six runs scored, two home runs and four RBI. Leadoff hitter Jake Nogalo was 4-for-7, No. 2 hitter Tyler Walters went 2-for-4 with three runs, two home runs, two RBI and a pair of walks while Adam Urbania, who bats third in The Rock's lineup, was 3-for-7 with two RBI.
 
Exiting the weekend, Urbania has tallied hits in 20 consecutive games and is batting .416 while Walters now leads the team with eight home runs. He needs just one home run to tie SRU Hall of Famer Nate Thimons for the most home runs by a Rock freshman.
 
GAME ONE: Slippery Rock 4 – Seton Hill 1
Schneider (4-3) shutdown the Seton Hill, which entered the game as the nation's second-ranked offense, with one of his best performances of the season to help SRU to its 4-1 win in game one.
 
The senior hurler lasted all seven innings, scattering one run on four hits and a walk while striking out eight batters in 113 pitches. He gave up one hit through the first four innings and allowed one Griffin to reach base, a Chris Miller walk, over the final two innings.
 
Schneider was only seriously threatened in the fifth inning when the Griffins produced three hits, including a two-out run-scoring single by Taylor Schmidt for their lone score of the game, before Schneider got out of the frame by forcing Pat McCarthy to groundout to third base.
 
Slippery Rock's offense came alive in the fourth inning when Walters continued to make his case for PSAC-West Freshman of the Year with a home run that sailed over the left field wall.
 
Jordan Faretta produced The Rock's second run of the game in the fifth inning by shooting a one-out double to right field to score Preston Falascino. Alex Bell gave Schneider two more insurance runs in the sixth with a two-run single that plated Urbania and Walters after the duo led off the inning by being hit by a pitch and doubling, respectively.
 
Seven different players had hits for The Rock in the opener. Jordan Fuller (6-1) gave up all seven hits and four runs in 5.2 innings pitched for Seton Hill in the loss, his first of the season.
 
GAME TWO: Slippery Rock 7 – Seton Hill 6
Slippery Rock parlayed timely late-game hitting as well as quality relief appearances by pitchers Geoff Sanner and Anton Constantino (2-3) into a 7-6 win, and the doubleheader sweep, in game two.
 
The Griffins jumped out to a 4-0 lead through the first three innings off of a two-run homer by Nick Sell as well as RBI-doubles from Cody Herald and Logan Urtz before Sanner entered the game and proceeded to throw 2.2 scoreless innings.
 
While Sanner settled the SHU bats, Slippery Rock started to chip away at its deficit by scoring three runs in the fifth inning. With one out and Faretta on first base following a walk, Zimmerman connected on his second home run of the season. Later in the inning, Urbania drove home Nagolo, who reached base via a single before advancing to second on a wild pitch, to trim the Griffins' lead down to 4-3.
 
Garret Vrbanic answered back for Seton Hill in the sixth inning by hitting a two-run home run off of Constantino, who came on for Sanner when there was two outs and a man on base prior to Vrbanic's at-bat, to extend SHU's lead back to three runs at 6-3. However, after Slippery Rock stranded two runners on base in the bottom of the inning Constantino came back out for the seventh and kept the margin manageable by throwing a scoreless seventh frame.
 
Slippery Rock completed its comeback by having a near perfect seventh inning. Walters got the comeback started with a one-out home run that was followed by an Urbania single and Bell reaching first on a fielding error to put the tying run on base. Seton Hill then traded an out for a run on a Logan Brown groundout to the shortstop. Now down to its final out and still trailing 6-5 with one runner on base, Falascino stepped in and delivered a clutch RBI-single to tie the game for SRU.
 
After a Kyle Vozar walk, Seton Hill turned to its closer, Jesse Cooper, that resulted in Cooper hitting Faretta to load the bases and bring Zimmerman back up to the plate. Zimmerman went on to place a 2-1 pitch through the left side of the infield to score Falascino and give Slippery Rock the win.
 
Zimmerman drove in three runs and was two 2-for-4. Nogalo added three hits and Urbania was 2-for-4. Walters has now homered in three straight games.
 
Constantino earned the win after allowing one run on one hit and one walk in 1.1 innings. Sanner pitched 2.2 innings of relief for starter Jon Anderson, who gave up four runs in three innings.
 
Prior to Sunday's games the Slippery Rock baseball program held its third annual Military Appreciation Day.
 
Slippery Rock will look to build on the momentum it built Sunday with a non-conference doubleheader against Shippensburg University on Tuesday at Jack Critchfield Park. First pitch of game one is set for 3 p.m.