INDIANA, Pa. – The Indiana University of Pennsylvania baseball program took the opener due in large part to senior right-hander Jeremiah Williams, 6-1, but fell in game two after the Panthers put nine runs on the board in the sixth to claim a 9-5 triumph.
 
Williams shutdown Pittsburgh-Johnstown, tossing a season-best six innings of one-run baseball over 90 pitches, nearly notching as many strikeouts (3) as UPJ had hits (4) while giving up only two walks as well.
 
Elijah Dunn had just two hits, yet he turned them into six total bases, crushing both a two-run home run and an RBI-double.
 
Davin Landers had a heck of a game two, going 3-for-4 (.750) with a pair of ribbies and a run scored plus a game one single to break .500 for the day (4-of-8).
 
David Kessler notched a similar stat line to Dunn's, cranking a two-run blast on top of an RBI fielder's choice and a single.
 
Markus Cestra went 3-of-7 (.429) including a double, two scores, a run batted in, a stolen base, and a hit-by-pitch while Harrison Pontoli put a bunch of different stats into the book like scoring three times, drawing a pair of walks, hitting both a triple and a single to go along with one baserunner brought home.
 
Mark Edeburn pitched well enough to win but the Hawks did not do him any favors with only two runs scored through his 5.1 innings worked, surrendering three runs on five hits, and walking none plus he sat down two Panther hitters.
 
Same opponent, different location on Friday afternoon when IUP hosts UPJ for a 1 p.m./3:30 p.m. doubleheader on Owen J. Dougherty Field.
 
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