In a River States Conference doubleheader that was held at Branch Rickey Park Saturday afternoon, the baseball program at Shawnee State fell to the Point Park Pioneers' baseball program by 18-4 and 17-5 margins Saturday.

Hunter Warner's solo home run in the second inning, back-to-back-to-back singles by Ryan Scott, Nolan Tressler and Diego Mendoza, which led to an RBI groundout that scored Scott in the third inning, and back-to-back RBI singles by Eli Jones and Warner in the fifth inning accounted for SSU's four tallies in Game 1.

Game 2 saw the Bears strike for three runs in the third inning, as a leadoff double by Michael De Jesus and two hit by pitches were followed by a two-RBI double by Tressler and an RBI groundout by Mendoza. Shawnee State then added a run each in the fourth and sixth innings as a hit by pitch and a single by Luis Mejia led to an RBI double by Tyler Lund in the fourth, while Mejia homered in the sixth to bring Shawnee State's scoring to a close.

Tressler went 3-for-7 with two doubles, Warner went 2-for-4 with a home run, two RBI, a walk and two runs scored and Mejia went 2-for-5 with a home run, an RBI and a run scored to head up the SSU offense.

Shawnee State (14-18, 8-7 River States Conference) will be back in action Tuesday, April 2 when the Bears travel to Bluefield to take on the Rams in a nonconference contest that commences at 2 p.m. in Bluefield, Va. The Bears won a thriller over the Rams, 16-15, in the pair's first meeting of the 2024 season back on March 5 at Branch Rickey Park.

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