ALTOONA, Pa. – Penn State Altoona baseball capped its regular season schedule with a sweep of Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference opponent Hilbert College in a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon at Stewart Athletic Field.

Prior to the games, the team honored its four senior players: shortstop Hunter Breon (Boiling Springs, PA/Boiling Springs), pitcher Hunter Johnson (Shippensburg, PA/Shippensburg), first baseman Catcher Cumming (Altoona, PA/Altoona), and pitcher Tyler Manger (Lindenhurst, NY/Lindenhurst). The Lions (11-13, 9-7 AMCC) continued the celebration during the doubleheader, winning game one 11-1 and storming back in game two to prevail 14-5.

Game One: Penn State Altoona 11, Hilbert 1

Penn State Altoona clicked on all cylinders in game one, finishing with double-digit run and hit totals, getting excellent pitching, and playing error-free defense to take down Hilbert (7-13, 4-8 AMCC) in comfortable fashion.

Tyler Manger (Lindenhurst, NY/Lindenhurst) pitched his second complete game of the season and recorded his second victory of the spring. In seven innings, he limited Hilbert to just one run on six hits and two walks while striking out four batters.

Jake Hillard (State College, PA/State College) went 4-for-4 at the plate with two home runs, one double, a game-high seven runs batted in, and three runs scored. Catcher Cumming (Altoona, PA/Altoona) was 2-for-3 with a triple, two runs scored, and a walk, and Richard Carey (Milton, DE/Cape Henlopen) went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a walk.

Penn State Altoona plated a pair of runs in the bottom of the first inning. Hillard's RBI single to left-center brought the game's first run in, and Timothy Richard (Douglassville, PA/Daniel Boone) drove in another with his groundout.

Hillard's three-run homer to right in the third inning extended the Lions' lead to 5-0.

Hilbert picked up a run in the top of the fourth on James DiSanti's sacrifice fly, trimming the Penn State Altoona lead to 5-1.

But the Lions widened the gap with a four-run fifth. An RBI double down the left field line hit by Hillard opened the scoring in the frame, and one batter later, Carey and Kyle Glass (Imler, PA/Claysburg-Kimmel) drew back-to-back bases-loaded walks to score runs. Grayson McClain's (Mount Union, PA/Mount Union) run-scoring groundout later in the inning gave the home team a 9-1 advantage.

Penn State Altoona tacked two more runs on to its lead in the sixth, when Cumming's triple off of the right field fence was followed by Hillard's second homer of the day, a shot to right-center that made it 11-1.

Game Two: Penn State Altoona 14, Hilbert 5

Hilbert led for much of the game until Penn State Altoona surged back to win it, powered by an 11-run, 12-hit seventh inning rally. Eight different Lion batters finished with a multi-hit performance in the victory.

Hunter Breon (Boiling Springs, PA/Boiling Springs) was 3-for-6 with two runs scored, one RBI, and one stolen base. Cumming finished 3-for-5 with a home run, two runs scored, and two RBI, and Richard batted 3-for-5 with two runs scored. Hillard was 2-for-4 with a double and a home run, collecting four RBI and two runs scored.

Quinten Moslak (Philipsburg, PA/Philipsburg-Osceola) finished 2-for-3 with a double, two runs scored, and one RBI. Anthony Iannizzi (Leesburg, VA/Heritage) was 2-for-4 with three RBI, two runs scored, and a stolen base, while Cole Brechbill (Hagerstown, MD/North Hagerstown) went 2-for-4 with two RBI, one run scored, and one walk. Carey finished 2-for-5 with a run scored.

Hunter Johnson (Shippensburg, PA/Shippensburg) got the start at pitcher for Penn State Altoona and finished with a no decision. In five innings of work, the right-hander yielded four runs while scattering seven hits and striking out three batters.

Glass followed with three relief innings, giving up one run, one hit, and one walk en route to recording his team-best fifth win of the season. Bryson Byers (Chambersburg, PA/Chambersburg) tossed a perfect ninth inning, striking out the side.

Hilbert broke a scoreless tie in the top of the fourth inning, getting three runs across on Colton Davis' two-run single to center and Jared Welnowski's RBI single up the middle. DiSanti's RBI double to right in the fifth put the Hawks up 4-0.

Penn State Altoona plated its first run in the bottom half of the fifth, when Breon's RBI single to center made it 4-1. But Hilbert got back run back in the next half inning, as Brandon Job's solo home run to right gave the visitors a four-run lead again, 5-1.

The Lions chipped away at the Hilbert lead in the bottom of the sixth. Cumming led off the frame with his conference-best ninth home run of the season, and Iannizzi later contributed an RBI single to left to narrow the difference to two runs, 5-3.

The Lions proceeded to explode in the bottom of the seventh to surge ahead, sending 16 men to the plate and scoring 11 runs to turn their two-run deficit into a nine-run advantage. Hillard's two-run double off of the center field fence tied the score, and Brechbill's two RBI base hit to left-center gave Penn State Altoona its first lead of the game, 7-5. Iannizzi followed with a two-run single to center, and he later came around to score on a wild pitch to put his team's lead at 10-5. The Lions reeled off three straight run-scoring hits, getting an RBI double from Moslak, RBI single by Cumming, and two-run home run by Hillard to make it 14-5.

With its regular season schedule now complete, the Penn State Altoona baseball team will await the announcement of seeding for the upcoming AMCC Tournament. Unlike other years, the conference will take the entire field of teams into its postseason tournament this spring and has added a play-in round to its playoff schedule.