Home Runs Propel Lafayette Past Baseball

Sunday, April 5

Easton, Pa.

12:00 PM

Army West Point

14-13, 0

Lafayette

5-14, 0

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Army West Point	0	1	3	0	0	0	3	7	10	3
Lafayette	2	0	0	4	1	1	X	8	11	3

Home Runs Propel Lafayette Past Baseball

April 05, 2015 | Baseball

Box Score

April 5, 2015

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EASTON, Pa. - Three home runs, including two by Lafayette's Steven Cohen, lifted the Leopards to an 8-7 victory over the Army baseball team on Sunday afternoon at Kamine Stadium. Army's Jacob Page hit a two-run shot of his own, but it wasn't enough as the Black Knights dropped their third consecutive contest.

The Leopards improved to 3-4 in Patriot League play, while Army dropped to 3-4 in the conference with the result.

Cohen homered to lead off the bottom of the first inning and the Leopards added an unearned run to take an early 2-0 lead. The Black Knights got a run back in the top of the second when Alex Dickerson started the inning with a double and later scored on a groundout by Ryan Levenhagen.

Trailing 2-1 with one out in the top of the third, Mark McCants tied the game with a single that scored Ben Smith, who reached on an error. Page followed and launched a two-run shot over the center field wall off Lafayette starter Toby Schwartz to put the Black Knights in front 4-2.

Army left-hander Julian Larimer pitched a scoreless third, with a pair of strikeouts to keep the lead at 4-2, but the Leopards got to him in the fourth. Cohen hit his second bomb, a two-run shot to center, then Campbell Lipe blasted a two-run homer of his own as Lafayette took the lead for good at 6-4.

The Leopards tacked on an insurance run in the fifth and the sixth before Army's comeback attempt in the seventh.

Trailing 8-4 going into its final at-bat, back-to-back doubles by Alex Jensen and Smith pushed one run across and forced Lafayette to go to the bullpen for Ryan Callanan. A groundout, plus an error made it 8-6, before Lafayette made another pitching change. Connor McMahon entered with one on and one out with Page at the plate. He ripped a RBI double to right field, but was thrown out trying to stretch the two-bagger into a triple for the second out of the inning. McMahon completed the save with a strikeout as Lafayette held on for the 8-7 victory.

Schwartz earned the victory after conceding six runs (five earned) on nine hits. He struck out 10 and did not walk a batter. Larimer took the loss for Army after being charged with eight runs (six earned) on ten hits. He fanned seven, hit three and didn't give up a walk in five-plus innings of work. Justin French came on in the sixth in relief of Larimer and punched out two.

Live stats for the series finale can be found .

Game Notes: Left fielder Mark McCants registered his 12th multiple-hit game of the year ... McCants recorded his ninth multi-RBI game ... Shortstop Alex Jensen started his 186th consecutive game ... Jensen has reached base safely in 13 consecutive contests ... Jacob Page hit his third home run of the season ... Alex Dickerson's double was his first extra-base hit of the year.