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Mountain Hawks take a pair from Leopards
4/23/2006 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
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The wins keep the Mountain Hawks one game ahead of Bucknell atop the Patriot League standings.
In game one, Collina scattered seven hits through seven innings, striking out five hitters along the way, and walking only two. The senior picked up his fifth win of the season in the process, and received help from a five-run sixth by the Mountain Hawks to lead them to their 20th win of the season. In that sixth inning, Matt Geiger led off with a single and McBride followed with a single of his own. Smith then drove both runners in with a hit to centerfield, giving Lehigh a 3-0 edge. After an error by
Lehigh jumped out to a 1-0 lead in game two in the second inning, when Smith, who reached on an error, scored on Bet’s single. The Leopards would score single runs in both the fourth and fifth innings to go in front 2-1, but McBride quickly changed that, as the junior crushed a pitch well over the left field fence in the seventh to knot the score at two. Smith then doubled, bringing up Bernhard who singled to right field, driving in the eventual game-winning run.
Lehigh and Lafayette will be back in action on Monday afternoon with another doubleheader, beginning at 1:00 at the baseball field, located on the Goodman Campus.
