The Lincoln University baseball team was swept by Bloomfield College, 15-6 and 4-1 in a doubleheader Saturday at Maplezone Sports Institute in Aston, Pennsylvania.

The Lions drop to 3-4 overall with the two losses.  Bloomfield is now 2-0.

Orlando Roberson (Germantown, Md./Seneca Valley HS) took the loss in the opener, giving up 16 hits and 13 runs (10 earned) in 4 1/3 innings pitched.  DeVante Parker pitched a complete game in the nightcap; tossing seven innings while allowing just four runs (two earned) on six hits while striking out eight batters in a losing effort.

The Bears scored 13 runs through the first five innings in the opener, taking a 13-0 lead before the Lions got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the fifth inning.  Christian Gil (Staten Island, N.Y./LaSalle Academy) started the fifth inning with a walk and advanced to third on a wild pitch and an infield error.  Marquis Coleman (Middle River , Md./Baltimore Polytech HS) drilled a single to score Gil and Julian Bradshaw (Brooklyn, N.Y./Brooklyn Generation HS) followed with a double, scoring Dominic Rheubottom (Baltimore, Md./Baltimore Polytech HS), who had reached base on the infield error.   Ronald Lashley (Brooklyn, N.Y./Benjamin Banneker Academy) also reached on an error, scoring Coleman and Michael Howard (Bronx, N.Y./Utica College) singled to score Bradshaw all before the first out was made.

The Lions got their final two runs when Brendan Sherman Johnson delivered a pinch-hit single with one out, scoring both Lashley and Howard, making the score 13-6.  His single would be the last of seven Lincoln hits in the contest. Bloomfield added two more runs in the top half of the sixth to round out the scoring.

Carlos Tejada (1-0) earned the win for Bears.  Juan Reina and Isaac Pichardo each hit home runs for Bloomfield.  

In the nightcap, the bears scored solo runs in the first and second innings to take a 2-0 lead.  Both runs scored as a result of errors as Parker allowed just one hit through the first two innings.

The Lions got on the board in the bottom of the second inning.  Gil singled and stole second and Rheubottom drew a walk.  Coleman followed with a double to score Gil and pull the Lions within one 2-1.

Lincoln had an opportunity to tie the score in the fourth, putting runners on second and third with two outs but Bradshaw struck out to end the inning, leaving both runners on base and the Lions still trailing, 2-1.

Parker meanwhile was holding the Bears at bay, giving up just two singles, one in the third and one in the fourth and retiring Bloomfield in order through the fifth and sixth innings.  Both BC base runners were later thrown out stealing or picked off base.

Bloomfield got their final two runs in the seventh when Parker gave up a leadoff home run to Cristopher Cabral, a triple to Pichardo and a single to Jonathan Carratala before inducing a double play and then string out Anthony Lantigua to end the threat.

Lashley and Howard each singled with two outs in the Lions final at-bat in the seventh, providing one last chance for the Lions to comeback.  Luis Nieves (Staten Island, N.Y./LaSalle Academy) then grounded out to end the threat and the game.

Anthony Maldonado got the win for Bloomfield with Patrick Haas earning the save.

The Lions return to action on March 7, 2017 when the face Benedict College in a non-conference doubleheader in Columbia, South Carolina.  First pitch will be at 1:00 p.m.