The Lancaster Bible College baseball team squared off against the number one seed, Penn St. Harrisburg, on Thursday in the first round of the United East Championship. The Chargers could not overcome the Lions, falling 20-2 in nine innings. The Chargers fall to 16-24 overall and the Lions improve to 31-10.
 
How It Happened: The Chargers gave up a run early as the Lions hit a solo home run in the bottom of the first inning to take the lead. The Chargers, however, held strong defensively, then got things going offensively when senior Blake Greenly hit his own solo home run over the left field fence to tie things at 1-1. The Lions responded with four runs of their own in the third inning to take the lead back, 5-1. The Lions proceeded to keep the bats hot, scoring 12 more unanswered runs to run to a 17-1 lead over the Chargers. Looking to get anything going, the Chargers scored in the top of the eighth when freshman Dylan Witkowski reached on an error, scoring Adam Naylor. The Lions scored two more in the eighth to end the game 20-2.
 
By the Numbers: The Chargers had 11 hits for two runs and an RBI… the Lions had 20 hits for 20 runs and 18 RBIs… Greenly went 3-5 with a run and an RBI… Evan Sareyka went 2-4 with a double and Naylor had two hits and one run for the day… Maddux Ryan had four hits for the Lions.
 
Up Next: The Chargers will square off in the second game of the weekend against the loser of Penn College and Penn St. Abington at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow.