HARRISBURG, PA - Penn State Harrisburg pounded 20 hits and had two innings of six or more runs to hand #11 Rowan an 18-12 defeat in a regional baseball matchup today. The loss was the Profs' third straight, dropping them to 14-5.

PSU Harrisburg (17-4-1) led 10-2 after scoring six runs in the fourth inning, but Rowan closed to 10-6 in the seventh. The home team then exploded for eight runs in the seventh to take an 18-6 lead and make the Profs' deficit more difficult.

In the ninth, the Profs got half of the runs they needed, helped by a grand slam from Marco Mannino, the first of his career. Phil Sedalis led off the ninth with a walk and eventually scored on a single from Kevin Cole. Rowan benefited from two walks and a hit batter when Mannino sent one over the fence in left center, scoring Cole, Damon Suriani and Mason Dorsey, for his first homer as a Prof to provide the final margin.

Rowan's 1-0 lead in the first was short-lived as Penn State scored twice in that inning. The Profs tied it in the second as Mannino laid down a sacrifice bunt to score a run, but the home team went up 3-2 in the bottom of the second.

Trailing 10-2, Rowan added one in the fifth on an RBI double by Tyler Cannon and then scored three in the eighth with a three-run homer from Brayden Davis, his fourth of the season.

Mannino posted a career-high five RBI in the game while Davis finished the game with two hits and three RBI and Sedalis had two hits. Austin Kreyenhagen (2-1) went 3.0 innings and suffered his first loss of the season.

Rowan will be back on the road on Tuesday for a game at York (PA).