ERIE, Pa. – The Penn State Behrend baseball team takes on La Roche for a rematch of the 2021 Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Championship for regular-season finale.
Coverage:
Game One, 1 p.m. (Live Stats | Video)
Game Two, 4 p.m. (Live Stats | Video)
Behrend News & Notes:
* Behrend can clinch the AMCC Regular Season Title with a win
* The Lions are on a five-game win streak including nine-straight in conference play
* Behrend has nine hitters batting above .300
* Juston Jones (Moon Township, PA/Moon) enters tied for fourth in the AMCC in RBIs with 30
* Zac Bogats (Corapolis, PA/Moon) (.395), Zack Bowen Pittsburgh, PA/Serra Catholic) (.372) and Isaac Stouffer (Punxsutawney, PA/Punxsutawney) (.371) all have averages in the conference top-10
* The Lions are tied for eighth in the nation in triples with 21 and eighth in triples per game at 0.66
* Jeff Zick (Moon, PA/Our Lady of Sacred Heart) holds steady as the AMCC leader in ERA and is 12th in NCAA Division III with a 1.24
* Zick is also tied for 41st in hits allowed per nine innings (6.19) and tied for 44th in WHIP (0.96)
La Roche News & Notes:
* The Redhawks won the regular-season title a season ago and currently rank fifth in the conference with an AMCC mark at 8-6
* La Roche has split every AMCC doubleheader this season with the exception of a conference-opening sweep of Medaille on April 2
* The Redhawks have been held to five or fewer runs in AMCC play on seven different occasions
* La Roche is bottom-two in the conference in batting average (.259) and ERA (8.17)
* Kyle Weitzel leads the team with a .321 average
Series History:
* The Lions have not beat the Redhawks in the regular season since 2017
* Behrend took two-of-three games from La Roche in the 2021 AMCC Championship
* Prior to those two victories, the Redhawks took nine straight from the Lions
* The all-time series began in 1987 and favors La Roche, 35-33
