Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Lancaster Bible baseball team opened North Eastern Athletic Conference play with a pair of losses on Friday to Penn St. Abington as the Nittany Lions took game one, 11-4 and game two, 10-3.

In the opener, Abington's Bill Parave worked 4 1/3 innings of perfect baseball as LBC's Tim Landis, Jr. finally broke up the perfect game with a single through the right side with one out in the bottom of the fifth. The Nittany Lions (11-14) also took advantage of six LBC errors.

Matt Taliercio had two hits, one RBI and a run scored for the Chargers, while Nate Long was 1-for-4 with a run scored and one knocked in. Brother, Justin Long, was the hard luck loser once again as he improved his E.R.A. to 5.40, but took his fifth loss of the season and dropped to 0-5. 

In game two, the Nittany Lions jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top half of the first inning thanks to Mike Kearns' three-run home run. They tacked on two more runs in the second and then a run each inning after that. Parave did the talking with his bat in both games as he went 5-for-8 with three runs scored and two runs knocked in.

Taliercio added two more hits for LBC in game two, while Micah McClay, Richard Westerlund and Frank DiFilippo also had two hits. DiFilippo took the loss in game two, scattering eight hits over five innings and just four of his eight runs allowed were earned. 

LBC (4-11, 0-2 NEAC) will look to even its NEAC record on Saturday when they travel to Reading, Pa. to take on Penn St. Berks at 1 p.m. The doubleheader is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.