INDIANA, Pa. – The Slippery Rock University baseball team lost both games in a doubleheader to Indiana (Pa.) Saturday afternoon at Owen Dougherty Field in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
 
IUP held off a late Rock rally to win the opener, 12-11, before taking game two 13-8. The Rock and Crimson Hawks combined for 44 runs and 49 hits over the doubleheader.
 
Slippery Rock, which took a pair of games from Indiana at home on April 14, exits the weekend with an overall record of 17-12 and a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Western Division mark of 9-7. Indiana moves to 13-17 overall and 9-7 in league games.
 
On a day in which Slippery Rock accounted for 19 runs and 27 hits, several Rock players had highly productive doubleheaders.
 
Luca Fuscardo went 5-for-9 with three RBI, three runs scored, one home run and two doubles. Fuscardo, who is now batting .442 on the season, is on a team-high 10-game hitting streak.
 
Christian Porterfield was 5-for-10 over the two games, with four RBI, two runs scored and one home run, his fourth of the season. James Divosevic also collected a five-hit afternoon, going 5-for-10 with four runs scored.
 
Joe Campagna and Tyler Walters rounded out The Rock's top overall performers. Campagna scored three runs and drove in two more while Walters had six total RBI. In four games against IUP this weekend, Walters drove in nine runs to push his season RBI total a Rock-high 38.  
 
GAME ONE: IUP 12 – SLIPPERY ROCK 11
SRU scored in five of seven innings in the opener while IUP tallied runs in four of its six trips to the plate on the way to clinching a one-run win in game one.
 
Slippery Rock led 8-7 entering the bottom of the fifth inning, but Indiana rallied with two runs in their half of the frame to take a 9-8 advantage before adding what turned out to be a crucial three runs in the sixth to extend its new-found lead to 12-8 heading into the seventh.
 
Undeterred, SRU fired back to leadoff the final inning with a triple from Campagna, who would quickly score on a sacrifice fly out by Mitchell Wood to cut IUP's lead down to 12-9. Following a groundout, Divosevic singled and Fuscardo doubled to give The Rock runners on second and third with two outs.
 
As he has done so many times throughout his career, Walters stepped up and delivered a two-run single to trim SRU's margin to just one run. However, Indiana pitcher Christian McClure (3-2) forced Porterfield to pop out following Walters' at-bat for the game's final out as IUP escaped with the victory.
 
Four different Rock players recorded at least three hits in the opener with Porterfield leading the way on an impressive 4-for-5, two-run, three-RBI, one-stolen base one-home run effort. Fuscardo and Divosevic were both 3-for-5 with three runs scored as well with Fuscardo also launching one home run to go with two doubles and two RBI.
 
Campagna produced a three-hit outing as well in addition to driving in a pair of runs and scoring another. Walters matched Porterfield with three RBI while also stealing one base.
 
Wyatt Daugherty (2-1) took the loss on the mound for SRU after allowing five hits and three runs through 1.2 innings. Preston Falascino pitched three innings to start the contest, surrendering eight hits and four runs before giving way to Josh Coleman who gave up five runs on two hits and three walks over 1.1 innings.
 
GAME TWO: INDIANA (PA) 13 – SLIPPERY ROCK 8
Game two of Saturday's doubleheader was another wild contest as Slippery Rock and Indiana traded the lead back-and-forth four times before the Crimson Hawks pulled away for the 13-8 win after scoring six runs over the fifth and sixth innings.
 
With the game tied at 7-7, Indiana plated two runs in the fifth inning off of back-to-back bases loaded walks.
 
SRU battled back in the sixth when Wood connected on an RBI-double that scored Campagna to cut IUP's lead down to just one run at 9-8. However, The Rock's hopes for a comeback were dashed in the bottom half of the inning when the Crimson Hawks busted the game open with four runs. Slippery Rock would go down in order in the seventh as IUP clinched the doubleheader sweep.
 
Divosevic, Fuscardo, Wood and Kyle Wise all had two hits apiece in the night cap while Walters had three RBI, one hit and one walk.
 
Control was an issue all game for the SRU pitching staff as starter Chris Anastas as well as relief pitchers Andrew Null (0-1) and Divosevic issued four walks each. Anastas made his second start of the season, going 2.1 innings and giving up six runs before giving way to Null, who gave up three runs in two innings. Divosevic tossed 1.1 innings, surrendering four runs, and Jay Cortese came on to get the final out in the sixth.
 
Slippery Rock will step out of PSAC West competition when it hosts Bloomsburg University for a doubleheader on April 14 at Jack Critchfield Park. First pitch of game one is set for 1 p.m.
 
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