PHILADELPHIA – The HFU baseball team extended its win streak to five with a second straight sweep, defeating Georgian Court 9-4 and 10-2 at Maplezone Sports Institute on Wednesday.
 
Individual Highlights

• Jalen David (Bronx, N.Y./St. Raymond) and Torin McKenzie (Hamilton, N.J./Nottingham (Mercer County CC)) both reached base three times in both games, with David going 3-for-5with two walks, a hit-by-pitch, triple, four runs and two RBI and McKenzie finishing 2-for-5 with two walks, two hit-by-pitches, a double and RBI
• Game one starter Brian Williams (Glenside, Pa./Roman Catholic (Bucks County CC)) did not allow an earned run over a career-long outing of 6.2 innings, in which he surrendered just five hits
• Hunter Kraiza (Havertown, Pa./Haverford (Cabrini University)) and Casey Murphy (Merion Station, Pa./Lower Merion (Ursinus College)) combined for 2.1 scoreless frames, allowing just one hit each
• Game two starter Alexander Ortiz (Hebron, Conn./Lyman Memorial) picked up his first collegiate win, giving up just two earned on four hits over six innings, before Alejandro Gonzalez (North Bergen, N.J./High Tech) came in for a scoreless seventh
• Brian Comer (Charlotte, N.C./Independence (Bucks County CC)) and Marc Garcia (Coatesville, Pa./Coatesville Area Senior (Keystone College)) had two hits and a walk in the opener, with Comer scoring three times and Garcia tripling and doubling
• Nick Lombardo (Willow Grove, Pa./Upper Dublin (Bucks County CC)) led the offense with a 3-for-4 performance in the nightcap that included a home run, double, three RBI and three runs
• Stefan Leo (Golden, Colo./Golden Senior (Porterville CC)) went 2-for-4 with a double and two runs, while Garcia drove in two

 
How it Happened
Game One

• Williams stranded the bases loaded in the second, and HFU took the lead for good in the bottom-half after Christian Mote (Branchburg, N.J./Gill St. Bernard's School (Iona University)) manufactured a run with a leadoff walk and stolen base
• The Tigers added runs in the third and fifth and then broke it open with a four-run sixth
  • After the first out was recorded, Luke Shahin (Ajax, Ontario/Archbishop Denis O'Connor(Augusta University)) and Dalton Turner (Langhorne, Pa./Neshaminy (Bucks County CC)) both singled and came home on David's triple
  • A pitching change could not stop the momentum as a Comer singled made it 5-0, before a Jephson Hadson-Taylor (Cheltenham, Pa./La Salle College (University of Maine)) single and passed ball completed the frame
• Georgian Court tallied four unearned runs in the fifth, but the Lions could never get the tying run to the plate

 
Game Two

• Holy Family momentarily trailed for the only time all day as GCU plated one in the second, but the Tigers immediately struck back with a two-run bottom-half
  • Leo led off with a double, Kaden Mannis (Algonquin, Ill./Dundee-Crown (Morton College)) was hit by a pitch and a Lombardo bunt single brought home the first run, before a Comer single put HFU on top for good
• Holy Family added two more in the fourth on a Lombardo double, two walks and two hit-by-pitches
• The Tigers then added six more in the fifth, highlighted by Lombardo's three-run homer

 
Up Next
Holy Family hosts Goldey-Beacom for a doubleheader at FDR Park on Saturday at 12 p.m.