ANNVILLE, Pa. - The Hood College baseball team outlasted Lebanon Valley 2-1 in 10 innings in the first game but the Dutchmen took game two of the Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth doubleheader 5-1. 

Inside the Box Scores

• Joe Kroeger had three hits in eight at-bats over the two contests. 
• Trent Copenhaver, Dylan Beck and Nathan Kessler recorded two hits apiece. Beck doubled and Kessler stole a base and knocked in two runs. 
• Nate Luscombe allowed just one run in eight innings in the first game, striking out seven in a no-decision. 
• Des Grimes picked up the win in relief with two scoreless innings. 

Hood 2, Lebanon Valley 1 (10 innings)

• A sacrifice fly by Kessler in the 10th drove in Andrew Wenner to break a 1-1 tie. 
• The Dutchmen struck first when Josh Marcelli led off the bottom of the second with a home run for a 1-0 lead. 
• Neither team scored again until the sixth when Hood tied the game. Kroeger singled and scored on an RBI double by Beck. 
• Luscombe retired nine of the 10 batters he faced in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings to keep the Blazers alive. 
• Hood broke through in the 10th when Wenner led off with a bunt single and stole second. Copenhaver bunted him to third and a sacrifice fly by Kessler brought him home for a 2-1 lead. 
• In the bottom of the inning, Grimes stranded the tying run on third to preserve the win. 
• Beck went 2 for 4 with a double and an RBI. 
• Luscombe scattered five hits and a walk in eight innings. 
• Grimes picked up the win, striking out two and allowing two hits in two innings. 
• Marcelli had two hits, including his homer, and a walk. 
• Kyle Kingsbury went eight innings and allowed six hits and one run while striking out five. Bryce Eberly took the loss. 

Lebanon Valley 5, Hood 1

• The Dutchmen scored three runs in the sixth to break the game open. 
• Joey Wrabel gave LVC a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first with an RBI single. A second runner was waved in but Beck's throw was relayed by Daniel Shepherd to Kroeger to cut him down at home. 
• Hood tied the game in the top of the second. Copenhaver reached on a two-out single and advanced to third on a failed pickoff attempt. Kessler followed with a single, allowing Copenhaver to come home. 
• LVC took the lead on an RBI double by Josh Herring in the fourth. 
• Bryan Towers had an RBI triple to start the scoring in the decisive sixth inning for the Dutchmen. 
• Towers and Herring had two hits apiece. 
• Brenden Ward pitched a complete game for the win. He allowed an unearned run and struck out four. 
• The Blazers used five pitchers. Brad Sawyer pitched the first two innings. Connor Henniges followed with two innings. Both pitchers allowed one run. Ryan D'Allesandro pitched a scoreless fifth inning. Jahlin Jean-Baptiste started the sixth and allowed three runs, one earned, in 0.1 innings. Chris Devine closed it out with a scoreless 0.2 innings. 

Up Next

The two teams wrap up the season series on Sunday, April 7 at 1 p.m. at Mount St. Mary's.