CARY, N.C. – The Slippery Rock University baseball team swept a doubleheader against Dominican College Tuesday at the USA Baseball Training Complex in Cary, North Carolina.
 
Slippery Rock won game one of the doubleheader, 13-7, before rallying back with three runs in the seventh inning to take game two 4-3.
 
SRU won just 13 games over the entire 2016 season but has now won five of its last six games, including four straight, to improve to 8-5 to start the 2017 season.
  Slippery Rock jumped out to an early 9-0 lead and never looked back en route to a 13-7 victory against Dominican in game one of Tuesday's doubleheader.
 
Luca Fuscardo continued his season-long 12-game hitting streak with a 3-for-3, four-run, three-RBI performance from the top of The Rock's batting order. Frankie Jezioro added one hit and three RBI while Tyler Walters continued his hot streak at the plate with a 1-for-3, two-run, two-RBI effort.
 
The trio of Christian Porterfield, Kyle Wise and Joe Campagna all added two hits apiece with Porterfield also driving in two runs in the victory,
 
Jay Cortese (1-0) earned his first win of the season on the mound after allowing five runs on eight hits over four innings while striking out four batters in the victory.
 
Dominican cut into The Rock's lead with seven runs in the fourth and fifth innings, but Slippery Rock put the game out of reach with four runs in the sixth inning. Wyatt Daugherty, who entered the game for relief pitcher Alex Worthington in the fifth inning, did not allow a run in nearly three full innings of relief work to secure Cortese's game-one victory.
 
GAME TWO: Slippery Rock 4 – Dominican 3
While Slippery Rock scored early and often in the opener, SRU relied upon late-game heroics to take the nightcap and earn the series sweep against Dominican.
 
Slippery Rock trailed 3-1 heading into the bottom of the seventh inning before Carson Kessler led off the inning with a triple. He would then be driven home by Frankie Jezioro via an RBI-groundout to cut the Chargers' lead to 3-2.
 
Campagna, who hit a game-winning two-run home run against Dominican in SRU's 8-7 victory against the Chargers on March 13, proceeded to belt a double to bring the go-ahead run to the plate. Pinch-hitter Mitchell Wood came on and stroked a run-scoring single that plated Campagna to even the game at 3-3 with two outs and one runner on first.
 
Facing the prospects of extra innings, James Divosevic came through with a run-scoring, walk-off triple that allowed Wood to score all the way from first base to give Slippery Rock a 4-3 victory.
 
Divosevic finished the nightcap 2-for-4 with one run scored, and one triple from atop of SRU's batting order. Walters, Jezioro and Wood also registered RBI while Kessler accompanied Divosevic as the only other Rock player to record two hits in game two.
 
Jezioro, Campagna, Wood and Matt Mendes all recorded hits as well in the victory.
 
Trevor Adkins started the game on the mound for The Rock, scattering six hits and two walks while striking out a career-high five batters over five innings. Shawn Holman came on for Adkins in the sixth before being taken out of the game for Preston Falascino (2-1), who forced a groundout with the bases loaded in seventh inning on the way to his second win of the season.
 
Slippery Rock is scheduled to continue non-conference competition with a three-game series against Shippensburg University March 17-18, but do to unseasonable weather in Pennsylvania, schedules are subject to change.




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