Coursey Walks Brandywine Off With Victory In Season Finale; Brown Records 100th Hit

ASTON, Pa. – Mason Coursey (Chadds Ford, Pa./Unionville) delivered a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning to send Penn State Brandywine to a 3-2 victory over St. Elizabeth in the Lions' baseball season finale late Friday night. Ryan Brown (Bensalem, Pa./Bensalem) tallied the 100^th hit of his career in game one, but the Eagles claimed an 8-6 triumph.

Game One: St. Elizabeth 8, Penn State Brandywine 6

Brown went 3-for-4 at the plate, recording his 100^th career hit with a leadoff base hit through the middle of the infield to start the eighth inning. He is the 15^th player in program history, including the third this spring, to reach the milestone.

Toby Skeans (Stevensville, Md./Kent Island) also produced three hits, while Nate Turner (Dover, Del./Dover) and Owen Lawton (Glenmoore, Pa./Downingtown East) both recorded a pair of knocks.

Lawton's third home run of the season was a three-run shot to left field that gave Brandywine a 3-1 lead through one frame.

The Eagles scored twice in the third inning to knot the score at 3-3, but Brandywine answered immediately with a two-run bottom of the stanza. Turner matched Lawton for the team lead in home runs as he blasted a one-out solo homer. Two batters later, Brown singled and then came around to score when Skeans doubled into the right-center field gap.

SEU got one run closer in the fourth and jumped back into the lead by pushing across a pair of fifth-inning runs. Turner opened the bottom of the inning with a two-base hit and crossed home when Brown produced a single two batters later as Brandywine tied the score at 6-all.

The count remained the same until the ninth inning when SEU struck for two runs against Josh Hess (Panama City, Fla./Arnold). A bases-loaded single put the go-ahead run on the board and the Eagles added an insurance marker with a sacrifice fly.

Hess came on in relief during the fifth inning and retired the first 10 batters he faced. He fired 4.1 frames overall, recording five strikeouts, while allowing two runs on two hits.

Game Two: Penn State Brandywine 3, St. Elizabeth 2

A pitchers' duel broke out in game two as the teams combined for just nine hits during the Lions' 3-2 walk-off win.

After allowing a first-inning run, Nick Gordon (Chester Heights, Pa./Garnet Valley) and Gianni Serenelli (Fairless Hills, Pa./Conwell-Egan Catholic) combined to retire 19-straight St. Elizabeth batters between the first and seventh innings.

The visitors added a second run in the eighth inning, but Brandywine rallied to tie the score with a pair of two-out markers during the bottom of the inning. Brown laced a double into left-center field, allowing Lawton to score and Skeans followed with a single to center that plated Brown with the game-tying score.

After Noah Walker (Bremen, Ga./Bremen) pitched a 1-2-3 ninth inning, Jamey Massung (Philipsburg, Pa./Philipsburg-Osceola) led off the bottom of the frame with a base hit. Pinch-runner Malik Blue (Wesley Chapel, Fla./Wesley Chapel) stole second and moved to third on Daniel Rohlsen's (Macungie, Pa./Emmaus) sacrifice bunt, setting up Coursey's walk-off winner. Coursey's chopped a ball in between third and shortstop, allowing Blue to cross home with the game-winning run.

Gordon, Serenelli and Walker combined to allow just two hits over nine innings. Gordon fanned a pair of batters in 3.0 innings, while Serenelli totaled five strikeouts  in 5.0 frames and Walker earned his second victory.

Seven Lions tallied a hit, including doubles from Brown and Webb.