READING, Pa. - The Hood College baseball team scored five runs in the first inning and put the game out of reach with six in the eighth to defeat Albright 14-4 in Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth action. 

Inside the Box Score

• Jordan Patterson went 4 for 6 with two doubles and four runs batted in. 
• Joe Kroeger finished 3 for 4 and was just a home run short of the cycle. He drove in two. 
• Brady Ward homered among his two hits, his fourth home run of the season. 
• Trent Copenhaver, Dylan Beck, Andrew Wenner and Alex Staton all had two hits in the game.
• The Blazers had a season-high 19 hits in the game. 
• Brad Sawyer walked three times and Nathan Kessler and Copenhaver both drew a pair of bases on balls. 
• Nate Luscombe improved to 4-1. He allowed four runs on 10 hits over six innings, striking out four. 
• Des Grimes and Connor Henniges combined for three shutout innings to close out the contest. 

How it Happened

• Kessler, Copenhaver and Sawyer all walked to load the bases with one out in the first. A wild pitch brought in Kessler and back-to-back-to-back doubles off the bats of Patterson, Wenner and Kroeger made it 4-0. 
• Kroeger tripled in the top of the third to drive in Patterson before the Lions answered in the bottom of the inning. Albright put together three doubles with two-base hits by Logan Pennypacker, Jimmie Gentry and Logan Adams pulling Albright within 6-3 after three innings. 
• The Lions scored again in the fifth to make it a two-run game before Hood began to pull away.
• A sacrifice fly by Wenner made it 7-4 in the sixth and Ward led off the seventh with a solo home run for a four-run edge. 
• In the eighth, Staton, Copenhaver, Beck and Sawyer all had RBI singles before a two-run double by Patterson made it 14-4. 

Notes

• Hood improved to 21-9-1 overall and 12-4 in the MAC Commonwealth. 
• Albright dropped to 10-19 and 5-11. 
• Adams had four hits for Albright and Gentry added three. Two of Gentry's three hits were doubles. 
• Will Tokarski took the loss. He allowed six runs in three innings. 

Up Next

The two teams have pushed their MAC Commonwealth doubleheader back one day to Saturday, April 20 at noon.