ALTOONA, Pa. – The Penn State Altoona baseball team played its first games of the season at Stewart Athletic Field on Thursday afternoon, punching past non-conference opponent Wilson College in a doubleheader.

Penn State Altoona (9-9) had a breakout performance offensively in game one, posting a dominant 28-3 victory over Wilson (3-10-1). In the nightcap, the Lions recorded an 11-4 victory to pull their record back to .500 and clinch the doubleheader sweep.

Game One: Penn State Altoona 28, Wilson 3

The Lions had a huge game offensively, scoring 28 runs to tie for the third-most runs in a game in program history. Additionally, Penn State Altoona belted seven home runs as a team to shatter the program's single-game homers record, which previously stood at four.

Six different Lion batters finished with a multi-hit game.

Jonathan Rauch (Pittsburgh, PA/Baldwin) was 3-for-3 with two home runs, one double, four RBI, four runs scored, and one walk. Aidan Donovan (Staten Island, NY/St. Peter's) was 3-for-5 with a home run, four RBI, and two runs scored.

Judd Dasso (Brentwood, TN/Brentwood) was 2-for-3 with a home run, three RBI, and five runs scored, a total that ties for the most runs scored in a game in Lions history. Brian Chelli (West Hartford, CT/Hall) went 2-for-3 with two home runs, six RBI, four runs scored, and a pair of walks.

Owen Dombrosky (Hollidaysburg, PA/Bishop Guilfoyle) hit 2-for-3 with a triple, four RBI, three runs scored, and a walk, and Jarek Szaflarski (Greencastle, PA/Greencastle-Antrim) was 2-for-2 with two runs scored and an RBI.

Devin Colón (Staten Island, NY/Moore Catholic) had a double and two RBI, and Carter Piercey (West Chester, PA/Rustin) hit a triple with two RBI.

Ryan Schellhase (Fayetteville, PA/Chambersburg) got the nod at pitcher for the Lions and picked up his second victory of the season. In five innings of work, the right-hander limited Wilson to four hits, one earned run, and no walks while striking out six batters. Chris Mull (Phoenixville, PA/Phoenixville) pitched two innings in relief, allowing no earned runs on two hits and a walk with one strikeout.

Penn State Altoona jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first, getting an RBI double to left from Rauch, a run-scoring groundout from Colón, and an RBI infield hit from Donovan.

The Lions kept the offense coming in the second. Dasso and Rauch each started the inning with two-run home runs, and another RBI groundout from Colón, a run-scoring double to left center from Michael Labisi (Mountainside, NJ/Governor Livingston), and an RBI base hit into left from Szaflarski increased Penn State Altoona's lead to 10-0.

The home team followed that up with a 10-spot in the bottom of the third. Dombrosky's grand slam to center field opened the scoring in the frame, and Donovan's groundout to shortstop brought another run home. Colón scored on a wild pitch to make it 16-0, and Dasso's RBI single to center extended Penn State Altoona's lead by another run. After that, Chelli's two-run blast and Rauch's solo homer made it 20-0.

In the fourth, Donovan's two-run bomb to center and Chelli's grand slam to right boosted the Lions' advantage to 26-0.

Wilson got on the board with a two-run home run from Tyler O'Brien in the top of the fifth, and Payton Bennett scored on a Lions throwing error in the sixth to make it 26-3.

Penn State Altoona capped the scoring in the game in the bottom of the sixth, when Piercey's two-run triple to center put the Lions' lead at 28-3.

Game Two: Penn State Altoona 11, Wilson 4

The Lions picked up where they left off in game one, scoring eight runs across the first three innings of game two and going on to defeat the Phoenix by seven.

Benjamin Ettien (Media, PA/Penncrest) was 2-for-3 with a home run, three RBI, a run, and a walk, and Rauch hit 1-for-2 with a homer, three RBI, a run, and a walk. Dasso finished 2-for-4 with a double, an RBI, and a run scored. Chelli scored three runs and stole three bases.

Caden Force (Indiana, PA/Indiana) took the ball for game two and notched his first collegiate win, going five innings and allowing just three hits, one run, and no walks while striking out two batters. Preston Farabaugh (Ebensburg, PA/Penn Cambria) and Cole Strick (Windber, PA/Windber) each pitched an inning in relief.

Wilson scored the game's first run in the top of the first on an RBI groundout by Derek Chavera, but Penn State Altoona came back with five runs in the bottom half. Dombrosky's fielder's choice scored Dasso to tie the game, and Zach Ingold's (Pittsburgh, PA/Baldwin) sacrifice fly to left put the Lions in front. Dombrosky scored on a wild pitch one batter later, and Ettien's two-run double to center gave Penn State Altoona a 5-1 lead.

The Lions upped their lead to 6-1 in the second, when Chelli led off the frame with a walk, stole second and third, and then scored on Rauch's groundout to second. In the third, a Szaflarski sac fly and Dasso RBI double put Penn State Altoona ahead by a score of 8-1.

The Lions set their lead at 11-1 in the fifth, when Ettien led off with a home run to center and Rauch later launched a two-run homer to center.

Wilson made a late push in the top of the seventh, as a Chavera two-run homer down the left-field line and an O'Brien RBI infield hit made it 11-4. But Penn State Altoona closed the game out after that, clinching the doubleheader sweep.

Penn State Altoona baseball returns to action with another home doubleheader on Sunday, March 29, as the Lions resume their Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference schedule with a twinbill versus Pitt-Bradford. Game one is set to start at 1 p.m.