ERIE, Pa. – The Penn State Altoona baseball team suffered a doubleheader sweep at the hands of Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference opponent Penn State Behrend on Saturday afternoon.

The Lions (4-10, 2-4 AMCC) lost 10-5 in game one and were defeated 10-6 in game two.

Game One: Penn State Behrend 10, Penn State Altoona 5

Behrend (12-3, 5-1 AMCC) scored a combined seven runs in the fifth and sixth innings to turn a 3-3 ballgame into a five-run victory.

Grayson McClain (Mount Union, PA/Mount Union) went 2-for-2 for Penn State Altoona with a double, two runs scored, and two walks. Jake Hillard (State College, PA/State College) was 2-for-4 with a home run, two runs batted in, and one run scored.

Jared Ennis (Richboro, PA/Council Rock South) went 1-for-3 with a double and two RBI. Anthony Iannizzi (Leesburg, VA/Heritage) was 1-for-3 with a run scored, and Richard Carey (Milton, DE/Cape Henlopen) also went 1-for-3.

Kyle Glass (Imler, PA/Claysburg-Kimmel) started on the bump for Penn State Altoona and took the loss, pitching four innings, yielding four earned runs, and striking out a pair of batters. Cameron Dubbs (Palmyra, PA/Palmyra) added 1 2/3 innings in relief, and Sam Homan (Altoona, PA/Bishop Guilfoyle) tossed 1/3 inning.

In the top of the first inning, McClain led off with a double, moved up to third base on a passed ball, and scored on Ennis' groundout to shortstop to give Penn State Altoona the 1-0 lead.

Behrend tied things up in the bottom half of the inning, when Josh Wagner's RBI double made it 1-1.

The teams traded runs again in the third, with Ennis' RBI double to left-center putting Penn State Altoona ahead in the top half and Isaac Stouffer's sacrifice fly evening the score in the bottom half for Behrend.

Tanner Cicchini's RBI single down the right field line gave the home team its first lead of the game in the bottom of the fourth, but the Lions knotted the score 3-3 in the top of the fifth when Iannizzi singled and later scored on an error.

But Behrend put four runs on the board in the bottom of the fifth to leap ahead 7-3. Wagner's RBI single opened the scoring in the frame, and Colin Harger's RBI double and Zack Bowen's run-scoring groundout followed. Harger scored on a wild pitch to give Behrend a four-run advantage.

The Lions got a run back in the top of the sixth, when Hillard led off with his third home run of the season.

But Behrend added to its lead in the bottom of the sixth, getting an RBI single from Juston Jones and a two-run single from Bowen.

Hillard's RBI single in the top of the seventh closed the scoring in the game.

Game Two: Penn State Behrend 10, Penn State Altoona 6

Penn State Altoona found itself in a big hole and was unable to dig out. Behrend led 10-0 after seven innings, and while the Lions awoke to score six runs, it was still not enough to overcome their big deficit.

Hunter Breon (Boiling Springs, PA/Boiling Springs) had a team-best two RBI, while Timothy Richard (Douglassville, PA/Daniel Boone), Quinten Moslak (Philipsburg, PA/Philipsburg-Osceola), Cole Brechbill (Hagerstown, MD/North Hagerstown), and Ennis finished with one RBI each.

Alex Kitko (Houtzdale, PA/Moshannon Valley) started on the mound and took the loss after pitching one inning and surrendering a pair of runs. Austin Miller (Orbisonia, PA/Southern Huntingdon) contributed three innings out of the bullpen, and Bryson Byers (Chambersburg, PA/Chambersburg) tossed four.

Behrend worked its way to a 10-0 advantage through seven innings, before Penn State Altoona put five runs on the board in the top of the eighth. Richard's RBI double plated the Lions' first run of the game, and Brechbill's RBI single drove in another. One batter later, Penn State Altoona got back-to-back run-scoring hits, as Breon's single down the left field line knocked in a pair and Ennis' base hit to left brought home another.

The Lions added another run in the top of the ninth when Hillard led off with a walk and later scored on Moslak's sac fly. But Penn State Altoona was unable to come up with any more runs, losing game two by four.

Penn State Altoona baseball continues AMCC play on Tuesday, April 10, traveling to face La Roche University in a doubleheader beginning at 1:00 p.m.