HUNTINGDON, Pa.- The Juniata baseball team dropped a pair of games to Moravian to open their season, 18-5 and 7-6, Saturday afternoon at Langdon-Goodale.
The Greyhounds capitalized on three Eagle errors across the first three innings as they exploded for 10 runs, four in the first and second before adding two more in the third.
Juniata remained hitless until Michael Warren (New Berlin, Pa. / Mifflinburg Area) singled in the bottom of the fourth.
Moravian had their biggest inning of the day in the fifth as they piled up eight more runs.
Dakotah Snyder (Lewisburg, Pa. / Lewisburg) drove in Ryan McClain (Hughesville, Pa. / Hughesville) to get the Eagles on the board in the bottom half of the inning.
Juniata did manage to tack on four runs in the bottom half of the inning to complete the scoring in game one.
Drew Westover (Burnham, Pa. / Mifflin County HS/Allegheny College of Maryland) took the hill for the Eagles in the second game, and went 5.1 innings while allowing two hits, three runs, and striking out four.
Juniata scored first as they jumped ahead in the third inning, with Snyder mashing a two-out double down the left-field line. Isaac Maclay (Belleville, Pa. / Mifflin County High School) followed by blasting a home run to make it 2-0. Warren singled to center, and Jake Swank (Belleville, Pa. / Mifflin County High School) knocked him in with another double down the leftfield line. Sam Craig (Mullica Hill, N.J. / Kingsway Regional) smashed a homer of his own to make it 5-0 JC after three.
A Maclay RBI double plated Snyder to increase the lead to six.
Things started to turn in the sixth inning as the Greyhounds used two JC errors to help score four runs as they cut the lead to two.
They followed with a three-run seventh, highlighted by a two-run double to left that scored the winning run.
Craig ripped a triple to center with two outs to give Juniata a shot in the bottom half of the seventh, but they couldn't get the run across the plate.
The Eagles will travel to Moravian for another doubleheader tomorrow, March 21st. The first pitch is at 12:30.
