READING, Pa. – The Ursinus College baseball team bounced back from a walk-off loss in a big way, racking up 12 hits and riding the stellar left arm of junior Seth Regensburg to a 13-1 whitewashing to salvage a split of Saturday's games at Penn State Berks.
The Nittany Lions (10-4) scored once in the sixth and again in the seventh to complete their comeback and walk off with a 3-2 triumph on Pearce Harhigh's base hit up the middle.
Ursinus (13-6) did all of its damage in the first two frames. Junior Austin Feuerman opened the Bears' account with an RBI single in the top of the first, and classmate Kieran Geyer dashed home on an error by the second baseman to double the margin one inning later.
Penn State Berks got single runs in the third, sixth, and seventh to complete the rally. After some early struggles, Sean Pavlik settled down to go the distance, surrendering only five hits with two walks and striking out eight. Toby Welk went 2-for-3 with an RBI double in the sixth for the Nittany Lions.
Senior Sean Pisik (3-1) took his first loss of the season. He went six innings, allowing three runs on seven hits with six strikeouts.
Game Two told a different tale, one in which ten different Bears recorded a hit and Regensburg proved all but unhittable. The southpaw struck out eight and conceded just three hits; the only run he gave up was unearned, and he faced only 27 batters over his seven frames.
With his eight punch-outs, Regensburg became the fourth left-hander in program history to reach the 100-strikeout milestone.
Ursinus scored in every inning but one, rolling to a 9-0 lead after just three frames. Feuerman finished 2-for-3 with his first homer of the season, a double, and two RBI to go with two runs scored, and Geyer had two hits and scored three times. Junior Timo Muro had a two-run triple in the fifth, and classmate Jay Farrell smacked an RBI double.
Farrell's sacrifice fly in the first started the scoring, and Feuerman and junior Alex Campbell roped back-to-back doubles to cap a three-run frame. Geyer and Farrell had RBI doubles in the second, and Feuerman's third career dinger led off a four-run third that also featured run-scoring singles from juniors Vincent Terry and Austin Kurey.
Junior Tom Carey's sixth-inning RBI single marked his first collegiate hit, and freshman Vince Altopiedi recorded his first RBI with a base hit in the seventh.
Welk had two of the Nittany Lions' three hits in the nightcap.
The 12-run margin of victory was the Bears' largest since a 16-1 rout of Emerson in 2013.
Ursinus kicks off a five-game home stand with a non-conference game against Lebanon Valley on Wednesday, March 30.