WEST POINT, N.Y. – Despite a ninth inning comeback in the second game of Saturday's doubleheader, the Lafayette College baseball team fell in both games to the Army Black Knights, 3-12 and 4-5.  
 
The Leopards were led in game one by sophomore Seif Ingram who totaled a team-high three hits, adding an RBI. Junior Justin Johnson recorded his first home run of the season and senior Ethan Stern, senior Colin Hartey and sophomore Patrick Vandenbergh each added a hit.
 
Starting pitcher sophomore Jordan Yoder went 4.0 innings, striking out five.
 
Game two saw junior Dylan Minghini leading the way with a team-high three hits and adding one RBI to his game two stat line. Hartey led the way with a team-high two RBIs also adding a hit while Johnson and sophomore Pete Ciuffreda each recorded two hits.
 
Starter sophomore Jake Bloss went 5.0 innings, striking out five.
 
Johnson got Lafayette (4-6, 3-4 PL) on the board first with a solo home run in the top of the first inning to give the Leopards a 1-0 lead. Army (9-11, 5-3 PL) quickly tied up the game in the bottom of the first, exploding for five runs to make it 5-1, Army, heading into the second inning.
 
The Black Knights then added seven more runs through the fifth innings to bring the score to 12-1 heading into the sixth.
 
The Leopards were able to get a run across in the top of the sixth. Ciuffreda got things started for the Maroon and White, getting on first after being hit by a pitched. Hartey then singled to right field to advance Ciuffreda to third.
 
Ingram then record his third hit of game one, singling through the left side to advance Hartey to second and bring Ciuffreda home, making it 12-2.
 
The top of the seventh saw the Leopards bringing another run across the plate. Freshman Justin Grech started off the inning by reaching first and then advancing to second on a throwing error by the Black Knights shortstop. A few batters later both Stern and Ciuffreda drew walks, loading the bases for junior Zach Savage who had come in for junior catcher Dylan Minghini.
 
Savage hit a sacrifice grounder for an RBI, bringing home Grech and making it 12-3 but couldn't get any more runs across the plate as Army took game one of the Saturday doubleheader.
 
In game two, Lafayette got on the board first in the second inning after Ciuffreda doubled and then Minghini then singled to left field to bring Ciuffreda home, putting the Leopards up 1-0.
 
Army evened the game in the fourth and then added two more in the fifth to make it 3-1. The Black Knights then add another, off a solo home run in the bottom of the eighth, to make it 4-1 heading into the ninth.
 
Grech led off the top of the ninth for the Leopards with a walk. Johnson then doubled, advancing Grech to put runners on second and third with no outs. Two batters later, Hartey singled to center clearing the bases to pull Lafayette within one, 4-3.
 
Junior Mike Landry came in to pinch run for Hartey and then came home on a single by Ciuffreda to tie up the game 4-4.
 
Army tripled to start off the bottom of the ninth and then a single was all the Black Knights needed to bring the winning-run across home plate and win game two, 5-4, in the bottom of the ninth.
 
Lafayette and Army are set to face-off in games three and four tomorrow in Easton. The first game of the Sunday doubleheader is slated for a 1 p.m. first pitch.