N.Y., native also broke the game wide open in the fifth. Leading 3-1, he hit a two-out, three-run bomb over the left center monster and across the street. It was his seventh homer of the campaign.
Thursday's game was delayed by weather yet again. The contest was pushed back from a 12:30 p.m. start to a 2:10 p.m. first pitch after Wednesday's final contest was pushed to Thursday at 8 a.m. And as both teams were about ready to take the field, the tarps were brought out with a storm coming through the area. The rain caused a 20-minute delay to the start of the game.
Gannon wasted little time getting on the board after the delay, scoring twice during the first inning for the second consecutive game. Baldelli's two-out double off the monster plated both runs. After Slippery Rock cut the deficit in half during the bottom of the frame,
Dylan Schwegler (Aliquippa, Pa./Hopewell Area) took the run right back by driving in Herold with an RBI fielder's choice.
Insurance came via single runs during the sixth, seventh and eighth innings. Baldelli had another two-out RBI hit that plated
Jeff Bellanca (Grand Island, N.Y./St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute) in the sixth.
Jared Wiesen's (Girard, Ohio/Liberty) two-out RBI double scored Herold in the seventh. Baldelli then capped the Gannon scoring with an RBI single that brought pinch runner
Mark DeVita (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Hills) around in the eighth. DeVita later ended the game with a diving catch in shallow right field.
Baldelli finished 5-for-5 with three doubles, one run and four RBIs.
Bob Roach (Erie, Pa./McDowell) also had a hat trick with a 3-for-4 showing from the eighth spot of the line-up. Wiesen, Bellanca and Cox had multiple hits.
Gannon improved to 24-18 with its first PSAC Tournament victory. Slippery Rock's season came to an end at 31-21 overall.
