Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 WOOSTER, Ohio – Fueled by three home runs in two games, the Allegheny baseball team was able to split with the Wooster Fighting Scots on the final day of the regular season at Art Murray Field.  The Gators held on to take the nightcap, 15-12, after falling to Wooster, 13-9, on a late grand slam in game one.

Senior Mike Pezzone had an electrifying afternoon at the plate for the Gators, launching three-run home runs in both games while finishing the two-game schedule 5-of-7 from the plate with a 1.571 slugging percentage, scoring six runs while driving in seven RBI. 

Freshman Robert DiMaggio launched the first home run of his career, a three-run drive to left, as junior Ben Murray finished the afternoon 5-of-8 from the plate, driving in a pair of runs.  Junior Adam Bronson hit a double and triple, batting .500 on Sunday with a slugging percentage of 1.000 while additionally driving in four runners.  Allegheny hitters finished the day batting .375, slugging .597 as a team sparked by five doubles, a triple and three home runs.

On the mound, senior Brandon Ellis picked up the game two victory, while Pezzone also grabbed a save in the nightcap of the doubleheader.

The Gators jumped out to a 7-0 lead in game one after a six-run first inning capped by a three-run home run by Pezzone.  A single through the right side by freshman Jacob Shick jump-started the first inning offense, as sophomore Joe Killian reached base on a Wooster miscue.  Pezzone took a 1-0 pitch deep to left field to open the Allegheny scoring.  After back-to-back singles by junior Zach Gray and Murray, Bronson tripled down the left field line to plate his two classmates and increase the Gator lead to five.  Freshman Shea Beaumont drove in Bronson on the next pitch, grounding out to third but allowing Bronson to score.

A sacrifice fly by Pezzone in the second put Allegheny up, 7-0, in the second.  Wooster got on the board with four runs in the third, cutting the Allegheny lead to one run in the fourth.  Junior Eric Weyant drove in Bronson with a single to left in the fifth, building the lead back to two runs, but the Fighting Scots tied the game with two runs in the bottom of the frame.

Gray would give Allegheny the lead back with a double down the left field line to score Pezzone in the sixth, who singled earlier in the inning.  Wooster took the lead for good in the bottom of the frame, scoring five runs on three hits and one Allegheny error, the big hit coming from Eddie Reese, who launched a grand slam to left center to give the Fighting Scots a 13-9 lead.  The Gators were held to only one hit in the inning, before Wooster was able to clinch the win.

In the nightcap, Gray drove in Shick to kick off the Gator offense, as a single by Bronson brought home Pezzone and Killian to give the Gators a 3-0 lead in the first.  Wooster plated two runs in the second before the Gators erupted for nine runs in the third.

Killian led off the inning with a double to right, as Pezzone was hit by a pitch to put two runners on with no out.  A Wooster error on a bunt attempt by Gray scored the sophomore, as Bronson tacked on another run with a sacrifice fly to right, scoring Pezzone.  DiMaggio cracked his three-run homer with no outs in the inning to increase the lead to six, as Pezzone picked up his second home run of the afternoon in his second at bat of the inning, launching a deep drive to left to plate Killian and Shick, putting the Gators up, 12-2.

Wooster began the comeback attempt with a two-run home run in the fourth, tacking on runs in the fifth, sixth and seventh inning to cut the Gator lead to 13-8, with Allegheny's 13th run coming on a single through the left side by Murray in the sixth.  The junior struck again in the eighth with a single up the middle to score Gray, but two runs in the bottom of the frame brought the Fighting Scots to within four runs. 

Killian tallied an insurance run with a sacrifice fly in the ninth, setting the stage for Wooster's last at bat.  Another Fighting Scots home run, their seventh of the four-game series, sliced the Gator lead to three runs.  After freshman Corey Keenan recorded two outs in the ninth after coming into relief in the eighth, Pezzone closed out the win with the tying run at the plate.

Allegheny will next host Wabash for a three-game, NCAC Crossover series on Saturday, May 3 at 12 p.m.  The winner of the series will advance to the NCAC Tournament in Chillicothe, Ohio, on May 8th.