The Lancaster Bible baseball team continued its early-season run of good play on Saturday as the Chargers swept a doubleheader from Penn St. York at Charger Field. Lancaster Bible won game one, 13-0 and took game two, 9-1 as the Chargers moved back to the .500 mark and evened their record at 6-6. 

Lancaster Bible 13, Penn St. York 0 (Game 1)
How it Happened: The Chargers scored in just two of their six at-bats, but both innings were big ones as the Chargers won for the third time in four games. Lancaster Bible game one starter Nate Burns was at his best over the first three innings as he posted 1-2-3 innings in each of the first three frames. After the Chargers were held scoreless in the first two innings, catcher JJ Sanchez led off the third with a double down the left field line. After an out, Hunter Gray and Josh Mayer each reached base thanks to being hit by a pitch and that loaded the bases for junior Justin Taylor. 

Taylor, like he has all season long, changed the game with one swing of the bat as he deposited the ball over the right-center wall for a grand slam to give Lancaster Bible a 4-0 lead. Burns gave up his first and only hit in his four innings of work in the top of the fourth and the score remained 4-0 in favor of Lancaster Bible through 4 1/2 innings. In the bottom half of the fifth, the Lancaster Bible offense exploded for nine runs and who else but Taylor was behind much of the offensive onslaught. 

Taylor led off the inning with his second home run of the game to make it 5-0. The dinger was his 10th of the season as he continues to lead NCAA Div. III in that category. The Chargers continued to increase their lead as they scored on an error and a balk to take a 7-0 advantage. A Braden Elliott RBI single and another Penn St. York error led to two more runs and made it 9-0 Chargers as Taylor strolled to the plate again. He doubled this time as Hunter Gray and Elliott scored to make it 11-0. After the second out of the inning, Adam Cohick singled home Josh Mayer and Taylor to produce the final score of 13-0.

Inside the Box Score: Taylor finished game one, 3-for-4 with seven RBI and three runs scored...Cohick was 1-for-3 with a run scored and two RBI...Burns earned his first win of the season as he allowed just one hit over four innings and struck out four...Zack Leonard relieved Burns and threw two innings, allowing just one hit...Mitch Kumher pitched the seventh and struck out two.

Lancaster Bible 9, Penn St. York 1 (Game 2)
How it Happened: Lancaster Bible wasted little time getting its offense going in game two as the Chargers plated four runs in the bottom of the first highlighted by Jenson King's two-run triple that made it 4-0. Mayer singled home Gray in the bottom of the second to increase Lancaster Bible's lead to 6-0 and Adam Cohick singled home two runs and then scored on a wild pitch in the fourth inning to give the Chargers a 9-0 lead. Penn St. York scored its only run of the day in the sixth inning as Levi Stein hit an RBI single for the Nittany Lions.

Frank McCreary, Zach Bonick, Gabe Yoder and Nate Staffieri combined to scatter six hits over seven innings with Bonick earning his second win of the season. McCreary, the game two starter, struck out four in three innings of work, while Staffieri worked a perfect seventh inning and struck out one.

Inside the Box Score: Cohick finished 3-for-4 with three RBI and two runs scored...For the day, Cohick was 4-for-7 with five RBI and three runs scored...Niedergall, King and Elliott each had two hits for the Chargers as Lancaster Bible pounded 13 hits in game two.

Extra Bases: Lancaster Bible is now 6-1 all-time against Penn St. York...Taylor leads the NEAC in batting average (.512), runs batted in (25) and home runs (10)...The Lancaster Bible baseball record for home runs in a season is 14 set by Matt Taliercio in 2014.

Up Next: Lancaster Bible hosts Dickinson on Friday, March 25 at 3 p.m.