FORT PIERCE, Fla. – The Penn State Behrend baseball team fell short in their spring-break opener in Florida. The Lions dropped a 3-2 decision to Monmouth (Ill.) on Sunday afternoon.
Score: Spalding 3, Penn State Behrend 2
Records: Penn State Behrend (0-4), Monmouth (3-0)
Key Moments:
* The Fighting Scots scored all three unanswered runs in the fifth inning
* Monmouth used three hits, including a double by Justin Bost to knock in the first two runs
* Bost then scored the game-winning run on a single by Trevor Davis
* Josh Wagner (South Park, PA/South Park) went 4-for-5 with an RBI in the clean-up spot
* The Lions tallied a run in the first and third innings
* Juston Jones (Moon Township, PA/Moon) scored both runs for Behrend
* Jones walked to start the first and then came home on a Christian Pacifico (Somerset, PA/Somerset) single
* The Lions took a 2-0 lead in the third after Wagner drove in Jones with his first single of the day
* Jones walked again and stole second before rounding home for a two-run lead
* Zach Bowen (Pittsburgh, PA/Sierra Catholic) and Braden Paulinellie (DuBois, PA/DuBois) registered a pair of hits in the nine-inning game
* Thomas Zbezinski (Gibsonia, PA/Pine-Richland) suffered the loss on the mound in five innings of work
Up Next:
* Behrend returns to action on tomorrow on day two of spring break for a doubleheader against Cairn, beginning at 5 p.m.
