Baseball Drops Four in Sunshine State

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FORT MYERS , Fla. – The Shenandoah University baseball team continues to struggle in its early season games as the Hornets fell to 2-9 Monday afternoon with a 13-9 loss to Penn State-Behrend at the Gene Cusic Tournament in Fort Myers.

SU has lost six straight since defeating Franklin &  Marshall College 4-2 on February 23.

The Hornets lost Monday’s contest, their fourth in Florida, despite banging out 17 hits and a season high nine runs. Errors once again hurt SU; coach Justin Cronk’s squad committed a season high nine in the loss. Those nine errors led to eight unearned runs for PSU-Behrend (1-2).

Sophomore Tyler Daniel (Richmond, Va./JR Tucker) and freshmen Matt MacDonald (Virginia Beach, Va./Princess Anne) and Paul Diggs (Waynesboro, Va./Waynesboro) all  had three hits on the day Hornets. Diggs and Daniel combined to drive in seven of the Hornets nine runs with four and three RBI, respectively.

Monday’s loss comes on the heels of a 6-4 loss to Concordia (Ill.) on Sunday and a 2-0 loss to Albion (Mich.) Saturday afternoon. Shenandoah opened the tournament Friday evening with a 10-5 loss to Dominican (Ill.) University.

MacDonald continues to swing the hot bat for the Hornets; he has had at least two hits in every game down in Florida and is now hitting a team high .471.

Box Score - PSU-Behrend  

Box Score - Concordia

Box Score - Albion

Box Score - Dominican

Shenandoah is back in action Tuesday with a 10:00 am game against Malone.