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Seton Hill opened its spring break trip with a doubleheader at Walter Fuller Park in St Petersburg, FL against Lake Erie College.  Lake Erie held on for a 7-6 win in game one.  The Griffins responded with a 6-1 win in game two.  SHU is now 4-3 on the season.
 
Lake Erie took a 2-0 lead in the top of the second when they put together three hits off of starter Mike Bittel.  The Griffins got a run back in the bottom of the second.  Sam Vilk was hit by a pitch with two outs.  Matt Malacane drew a walk and Taylor Schmidt doubled over the center field wall to drive in Vilk and cut the lead to 2-1.  Lake Erie increased their lead to 6-1 with 4 runs in the top of the third inning.  SHU got half of those runs back in the bottom of the third.  Pat McCarthy led off the inning with a double.  He scored when Nick Sell drove a 1-2 pitch over the left center field fence to trim the lead to 6-3.  The Storm got another unearned run in the top of the fourth to push the lead to 7-3. 
 
SHU got a run back in the bottom of the fourth.  Vilk led off with a doubled and scored on a RBI double from McCarthy.  The Griffins got a break and took advantage of it in the bottom of the sixth when the Storm let an inning ending popup fall to the ground.  McCarthy then doubled in a run and pinch hitter Logan Urtz singled in McCarthy to cut the lead to 7-6.  Lake Erie retired the Griffins 1-2-3 in the seventh inning. 
 
Mike Bittel suffered the loss.  He went 5 1/3 innings, giving up 7 runs (5 earned) on 7 hits.  Pat McCarthy led the offense with 3 doubles and 2 RBI.
 
Seton Hill got on the scoreboard first in game two.  Matt Malacane and Garret Vrbanic had back to back doubles to score the first run.  Vrbanic then scored from second base on a long fly out by Taylor Schmidt.  SHU added 4 more runs in the fourth.  Vrbanic, Chris Miller and Pat McCarthy each drove in a run in the inning.  The Storm hit a solo homer in the sixth to cut the lead to 6-1. 
 
Brett Sullivan earned the complete game victory.  He gave up 1 run on 2 hits and struck out 5.  Pat McCarthy, Nick Sell and Garret Vrbanic each had two hits.  Vrbanic drove in two runs.
 
SHU will return to action on Saturday when they take on Saginaw Valley at 2 PM and Mansfield at 6 PM at Jack Russell Stadium.