Well that 1-12 start to the season seems like a long time ago.

The Lancaster Bible College baseball swept its doubleheader with Baptist Bible College on Wednesday to win its fourth straight game and sixth in its last seven. The Chargers won a dramatic game one, 7-6 in eight innings on Wednesday and overcame an early deficit in game two to breeze to an 11-4 victory. 

In the opening game, the Chargers overcame two separate three-run deficits to send the game to extra innings. LBC trailed 6-3 heading into the bottom of the seventh, but back-to-back drawn walks by LBC's Peter Shue and Tim Landis, Jr. put runners on second and third with nobody out. After a fly out and pitching change, Mitch Kumher singled to left and advanced to second on an error by the left fielder. Shue scored and Landis moved to third on play as well.

The next batter, Micah McClay, singled home Landis and moved Kumher to third and cut the Chargers' deficit to one. Richard Westerlund's RBI groundout tied the game at 6-6 and sent LBC to extra innings for the fourth time this season.

After Paul Greco worked out of a jam in the top of the eighth, LBC loaded the bases, on three straight singles, in the bottom half of the eighth for Landis. After the Defenders brought an outfielder to the infield to try and set up the double play, Landis hit a towering shot to left that went in the books as a game-winning single, giving LBC the 7-6 win. 

Kody Godsey finished 4-for-5 in game one, while Frank DiFilippo and Landis both finished with three hits. Games one and two marked the third and fourth times this season that LBC has had 18 or more hits in a game.

The Defenders jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead in game two, but LBC responded with two runs in the second and five more in the third to take a lead they would not relinquish. Kumher pitched a complete game for the Chargers, scattering 10 hits and allowing three earned runs. 

Drew Tilley and Richard Westerlund each had three hits for LBC in the 11-4 victory, while Frank DiFilippo hit his team-leading eighth home run. Josiah Weaver added his first hit of the season as well for the Chargers, while Shue and Landis each had two hits and scored two runs. 

The Chargers (8-14) have compiled a 5-1 record over the other East Region teams and thus will host the East Region playoffs on April 23. The other seeds have yet to be determined.

LBC returns to NEAC action on Saturday when they host Penn St. Berks for a doubleheader beginning at 12 p.m.