OSWEGO, N.Y. – The No. 12/14 Oswego State baseball team earned a pair of wins in doubleheader action over Clarkson University on Tuesday afternoon. Oswego improves to 21-7, while the Golden Knights fall to 12-13.

Game One: Oswego 8, Clarkson 4

Clarkson and Oswego opened the contest by trading runs over the first three innings, before the Lakers were able to grab the lead for good. Following a pair of base knocks for Clarkson, which gave the team a 2-0 lead, John Barnes slapped a triple in the right-field gap to cut into the lead.

Eric Hamilton scored on the triple after singling to second base earlier in the inning. In the subsequent at-bat, Mike Dellicarri drove in Hamilton to tie the tally at 2-2.

Again Clarkson retook the lead – in the top of the second – with a pair of runs. Oswego answered back with two hits in the bottom half. Eli Holton continued his hot hitting with a single to left and advanced to second on an error, before Robert Donnelly drove him in on a base hit of his own.

During the fourth frame, Holton crushed a home run to left field, which eventually served as the game-winning run as it put the Lakers in front 5-4. After he launched two homers on Saturday, the junior has now hit three home runs in as many games.

Oswego notched three insurance runs in the bottom of the seventh as Kyle Simmons doubled to score Donnelly and Kyle Dinges.

Bobby Zywicki earned the win on the mound, his second of the year. The Liverpool, N.Y. native tossed five innings in relief and allowed just three hits. He surrendered zero earned runs and struck out three.

 
Game Two: Oswego 2, Clarkson 1

Brian Nolan led the Lakers during game two with a spectacular performance on the mound, one-upping his Clarkson counterpart, who held a perfect game through 3.1 innings. The Syracuse, N.Y. native tossed a seven-inning complete game, surrendering five hits, one run, while striking out eight.

Throughout the contest, Nolan kept opposing batters off balance. Over the first six innings, he surrendered just two hits, including a stretch where he set down seven batters in a row.

Offensively, Eric Hamilton was able to get the Lakers going with a hit up the middle in the fourth. John Barnes followed this up with a single through the left side and moved to second as the throw went to third in contest of Hamilton's advance.

Hamilton scored on the next play as Dellicarri singled to left. Holton then doubled off the midpoint of the left-field fence to drive Barnes home.

Zach Whelan was the only other Laker to tally a hit in the second game as he blooped a single to center field in the bottom of the fifth.

The Lakers return to action at 3 p.m. on Friday as they head to No. 4/5 Cortland to take on the Red Dragons in a three-game series.