Lions Split At Greensburg; Boehme Tallies 150 Career Hits

The Penn State Behrend baseball team’s 16-game winning streak was snapped on Sunday, falling in game one at Pitt-Greensburg, 8-5.

Lions Split At Greensburg; Boehme Tallies 150 Career Hits
April 27, 2025
GREENSBURG, Pa. – The Penn State Behrend baseball team's 16-game winning streak was snapped on Sunday, falling in game one at Pitt-Greensburg, 8-5. The Lions bounced back with a season-high 20 runs on 16 hits for a 20-1 win in game two.
 
Game One: Pitt-Greensburg 8, Penn State Behrend 5
Records: Pitt-Greensburg (13-15, 8-3 AMCC), Penn State Behrend (24-7, 8-1 AMCC)
 
Key Moments:
 
*  Senior Mac Ciocco (Venetia, PA/Peters Township) opened the scoring with his third home run of the year, a three-run shot in the top of the third
* Pitt-Greensburg came back in bottom half of the inning with six runs on four hits, plating three runs on back-to-back-to-back bases loaded walks and a balk
* Thomas Nicely (Delmont, PA/Franklin Regional) cut the Lions deficit to one (6-5) with a two-run double in the top of the fifth
* A pair of RBI singles from Colin Solinski and Zach Tyson in the sixth inning helped claim the game one win for the Bobcats
* Pitt-Greensburg starter Conner Burkey hurled a complete game, surrendering five earned runs on eight hits with five strikeouts to pick up his seventh win of the season
* For Behrend, Ciocco, Nicely, and Chase Palmer (Brookville, PA/Brookville) all tallied a team-high two hits with Ciocco bringing home three runners
* Hunter Gideons finished 3-for-3 with two runs batted in to lead the Bobcats in game one
 
Game Two: Penn State Behrend 20, Pitt-Greensburg 1
Records: Penn State Behrend (25-7, 9-1 AMCC), Pitt-Greensburg (13-16, 8-4 AMCC)
 
Key Moments:
 
* The Lions broke the game open early with 12 runs in the first three innings
* Ciocco and Cayden Turner (Stoystown, PA/North Star) tallied RBI singles in the first inning and then Tyler Burick (Erie, PA/Harbor Creek) capped off the inning with a three-run homer for his second collegiate long ball
* Daniel Boehme (Peters Township, PA/Seton LaSalle) started the second inning with an RBI single for his 150th career hit
* Boehme was followed by a sacrifice fly from Turner, an RBI single from Hank Shaffer (Saegertown, PA/Saegertown), and a Burick RBI double
* Ciocco and Dylan Barnes (Pittsburgh, PA/North Hills) recorded RBIs in the third inning to extend Behrend's advantage to 12-0
* Ciocco drove in three more runs with a bases clearing double in the top of the sixth, while Silvio Ionadi (Pittsburgh, PA/Plum) delivered an RBI double
* The Bobcats plated their lone run of the game on an RBI single from Thomas Smith in the bottom of the sixth
* Behrend scored two runs in the seventh inning on a pair of Greensburg errors, followed by Stephen Slate (Hopewell, PA/Hopewell) knocking in the 19th and 20th runs of the contest with his first career runs batted in on a two-run double
* Starter Andrew Bredel (Clinton, PA/Burgettstown) earned his seventh win on the mound, tossing six innings to go along with four hits, one earned run, one walk, and six strikeouts
* Freshman Chase Caricato (Gibsonia, PA/Pine-Richland) threw a scoreless seventh inning to secure Behrend's 25th victory of the season
* Ionadi (three hits), Ciocco (three hits), Turner (three hits), and Burick (two hits) all notched multiple hits with Ciocco driving in a game-high five runs
* Five different Bobcats registered a hit in game two
 
Up Next:
 
* Behrend will return home for another Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) doubleheader, this time taking on Alfred State on Tuesday, April 29. Game one is set for 1 p.m.