#1 seed La Roche and #2 seed Penn St. Behrend easily handled their opening round opponents in the AMCC Baseball championship Tournament.

Behrend took on their Penn State cousins from Altoona in the first game of a rain-threatened day, cruising to a 9-1 win.  The Lions never trailed as senior hurler Phil Myers threw his fourth complete game of the season, allowing just one run on five hits. Myers fanned six batters, including two in the seventh and one in the eighth to seal the victory, improving to 7-0 on the season.  RF Ian Taylor went 3-for-5 with three RBI in the leadoff spot, while SS Scott Sada and 1B Josth Wagner went 2-for-4 on the day.

After three scoreless innings, Wagner drove in Sada off first in the bottom of the fourth inning to get on the scoreboard. Mason McGuire made it 2-0 after getting on base on a fielder's choice and reaching home on a sacrifice fly by Jason Foreman.  Altoona stayed within striking distance through five innings, as Behrend held a 2-1 lead past the game's midway point. But, coming out of a brief rain delay, Behrend put together a five-run bottom of the sixth inning and added another two runs in the seventh for the final 9-1 margin. C Justin Virga had two of PSA's five hits, going 2-for-3 with a run scored.  SS Hunter Breon finished 1-for-4, providing the Lions' lone RBI.

Game two saw a rematch that earlier in the season resulted in a pair of Mount Aloysius wins.  It looked to be more of the same as the Mounties opened with a strong first inning with SS Matt McCourt doing his job as lead-off batter with a hit and eventually touching home on a defensive error.  But that was the sum of their impact on the scoreboard.  The Redhawks answered with two runs in the second on a Brandon Nania HR. 3B Troy Kifer's single to center field in the 4th inning scored two more, and Nania picked up his third RBI of the game in the 8th, scoring RF Tristin Tinney, and it was the Redhawks who finished on top, 5-1.  LRU's Travis Holman went all nine innings for his sixth win of the season, striking out seven and allowing just five hits. 

Play resumes Friday at 10am with Mount Aloysius and Penn State Altoona facing off in an elimination game, followed by La Roche and Behrend at 1p.  The winner of game one will meet the loser of game three at 4pm.  The championship game is slated for Saturday at 11am.