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Brandywine Drops Final Regular-Season Home Games

ASTON, Pa. – The Penn State Brandywine baseball team dropped a pair of conference games to Penn State York by scores of 9-6 and 4-1 during its final home games of the regular season on Thursday afternoon.f

Game One: Penn State York 9, Penn State Brandywine 6

Toby Skeans (Stevensville, Md./Kent Island) hit a go-ahead home run during the sixth inning, but York answered with four runs in the seventh to claim the opener 9-6.

Skeans, Ryan Snyder (Aston, Pa./Sun Valley), Evan Abegg (Commerce City, Colo./Prairie View) and Cam Baughman (Oxford, Pa./Oxford) all had two hits for the Lions. Snyder and Skeans both scored a pair of runs, while Abegg drove in two.

Snyder doubled to lead off the bottom of the first and came around to score following a base hit from Mike DeGirolamo (Frederick, Md./Frederick) for a 1-0 Brandywine lead.

The visitors went in front two runs in the fourth, but Brandywine answered by scoring four times in the fifth. Snyder tied the score at 2-2 with an RBI single, while Abegg drove in two runs with a base hit and scored on Baughman's triple.

York scored three times via five consecutive two-out singles to re-tie the game in the sixth. Skeans put the Lions on top again during the bottom of the frame, launching a two-out home run over the left field fence, but York scored four times on four hits in the seventh.

Connor Thompson (Finksburg, Md./Westminster) took his second loss of the season after pitching the first 6.1 innings. Ty Coccia (West Chester, Pa./West Chester East) got the final two outs of the seventh inning.

Game Two: Penn State York 4, Penn State Brandywine 1

York completed the sweep by limiting the Brandywine offense to one run on four hits in game two.

Owen Lawton (Glenmoore, Pa./Downingtown East) had two of Brandywine's four knocks, including a sixth-inning single that plated Baughman. Lawton also stole a pair of bases.

Jaylen Bryant (Brooklyn, N.Y./High School of Telecommunications) pitched all seven innings, allowing four runs on nine hits, while striking out four. He saw his record drop to 4-2 this spring.

York took the lead with a second-inning run and tacked on three more markers in the fifth.

Brandywine (21-11, 14-4 PSUAC) and York close out the series Friday at WellSpan Park beginning at 2:00 PM.