Baseball

Delaware Valley College 14, Wilkes University 6

DOYLESTOWN (PA) - - Mike Isgro hit for the cycle, knocked in five runs and got the win on the mound as Delaware Valley College opened a crucial weekend with a 14-6 victory over visiting Wilkes University in a Freedom Conference game.

The win lifted the Aggies to 21-10 overall, 6-5 and second place in the conference. The three-game series with the Colonels (15-11, 5-6) will now shift to Wilkes-Barre for a doubleheader on Saturday. Delaware Valley then has a makeup doubleheader at Freedom newcomer and current front-runner Manhattanville College (17-10, 7-4) on Sunday.

Isgro notched a single, two doubles, a triple and a home run for a perfect 5-for-5 afternoon at the plate. The five hits tied four others - including teammate Kellen Jarrett who accomplished the feat at FDU-Florham last Friday - for the most hits in a game. On the mound, he improved to 6-1 as he went five-plus innings and allowed five runs (four earned) while fanning five.

Delaware Valley jumped out to an 8-1 lead with three runs in the second, two in the third and three more in the fourth. In the second, Isgro knocked in a run with his first double while Zach Chodur and Dylan Saldutti notched RBI singles. Chodur knocked in another run in the third while Kevin Weingart drilled a home run over the right field fence. In the fourth, Weingart doubled in a run and Isgro followed with a two-run double to left.

The Colonels got back in the gamer and chased Isgro from the mound in the sixth as they scored four run off of five hits and a pair of Aggie errors. Chris Mayerski made it an 8-3 ballgame with a two-run homer, his eighth of the season. After a Brad Woznisky single, Randy Dengler drove him in with a double. Back-to-back singles and an error brought in two more runs and a walk loaded the bases with just one out.

Rob Galdieri came in to face Kyle Follweiler, who entered the game with a .429 batting average, an .868 slugging percentage and 31 RBIs. The Aggies put a pickoff play on and Galdieri got the runner on first leaning for the second out of the inning. The junior then induced Follweiler into a ground out to second to end the threat.

Isgro stayed in as the designated hitter and he drilled a two-out homer run in the bottom of the sixth to get one of the runs back. Delaware Valley then put the game away in the seventh as it scored five times off of four hits and two Colonel miscues. Kyle Bobb beat out a potential double-play ball to bring in one run while an errant throw on the play resulted in another. Bobb then scored as Zach Jakubowski hit his school-record tying eighth triple of the season. Weingart followed with a single to score Jakubowski and Isgro completed the cycle by tripling to right-center field and scoring Weingart for a 14-5 advantage.

The Aggies finished with 18 hits on the day. Weingart went 3-for-5 and tied a school record with four run scored. He was triple shy of a cycle himself and finished with three RBIs. Chodur and Saldutti each went 3-for-5 with Chodur scoring two runs and knocking in two.

Dengler, Woznisky, Corey Helfrich and Eric Wetzel had two hits apiece for Wilkes while Mayerski was 1-for-3 with the home run and two RBIs. Tom Buckler lasted just two-plus innings and fell to 2-3 on the season.