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MAY 2, 2015

KING'S BASEBALL END SEASON WITH DOUBLEHEADER SWEEP OF DELAWARE VALLEY

WILKES-BARRE, PA --- The King's College baseball team swept a doubleheader with Delaware Valley University on Saturday afternoon at Lipo Field. The Monarchs won the first game 7-3 and then scored five runs with two outs in the bottom of the sixth to take the nightcap 8-3.

King's ends the season with an 11-21 overall record and 6-15 mark in Freedom play. Delaware Valley finishes with a 13-23 overall record and 3-18 in conference competition.

In the bottom of the first of game one Greg Bartle and Joe Zito hit back-to-back singles before Bruce Breithaupt was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Stephen Brynok hit a single that fell in front of the left fielder to score Bartle. Kyle Lupas knocked in Zito and Briethaupt with a single that that just got through the right side of the infield. Joe Civello then hit a sacrifice fly to center to score Brynok to give King's a 4-0 lead.

The Aggies got on the board in the fifth inning with three runs to cut the Monarch lead to 4-3. King's responded in the bottom of the inning with two runs on a Lupas double to right centerfield. Sean Padden and Brynok scored on the play. Ryan Civello knocked in Lupas to give King's a 7-3 advantage.

In game one King's was led by Kyle Lupas who had two hits, knocked in four runs, and scored once. Stephen Brynok had two hits, scored two runs and knocked in one while Ryan Civello and Joe Civello had an RBI each. Andrew Fisher pitched a complete game allowing three runs on nine hits for the win.  

Austin Bregman, Kyle Wenger, and Cayton Curtis had two hits each for Delaware Valley. Mike Kearney allowed seven runs on nine hits in five innings to pick up the loss.

In the nightcap the Aggies got on the board first with two runs in the first inning and one in the second to take a 3-0 lead. The Monarchs got one run back in the fourth when
Breithaupt got on base with a single and then Brynok hit him in with a double down the right field line.

King's tied the game in the fifth when Zito hit a sacrifice fly to center to score Justin Martinelli and Breithaupt hit a triple to right center to score Tom Gibbons. The Monarchs then took the lead in the sixth when Joe Civello singled and then Ryan Civello tripled to left center. Civello then scored on an error by the second baseman to give King's a two run lead. The Monarchs got three more insurance runs from Martinelli, Gibbons, and Zito to take an 8-3 lead.

Ryan Gimbi pitched a complete game two hitter for the Monarchs in game two. He allowed three runs and struck out eight and walked two. Gimbi finished his Monarch career with the second most strikeouts in a career in modera-era program history. His 165 career strikeouts is two shy of the record, 167 by 2010 graduate Dan Jenkins.

Bruce Breithaupt led the Monarchs with four hits, three runs batted in, and one run. Joe Zito knocked in two while scoring one. Justin Martinelli and Tom Gibbons scored two runs each.