WINCHESTER, Va. – Shenandoah University opened up its 2006 season in style Friday afternoon with a doubleheader sweep over Penn State – Altoona, winning game one 15-1 and game two 11-0.

Shenandoah (2-0) banged out a combined 40 hits in the two games to sweep the Lions (0-2) for the second time in three years.

A four-run second inning of the opener proved to be all the offense that junior Jason Burgess would need. Burgess scattered three hits in six innings of work to earn the win in his first outing of the spring.

Sophomore Sam Fullerton drove in the winning run in that second inning with a two-run single to right. Fullerton plated junior Adam Duckett and senior Adam Kuchemba, who had reached on a pair of singles.

The Hornets kept the offense going following this outburst with two runs in third, five in the fourth and four more in the sixth.

Fullerton led the onslaught with a 4-for-4 day that included five RBI and a double. Junior Daniel Ziccardy was 2-for-3, Kuchemba 3-for-3, David Jenkins 3-for-5 with two RBI and junior Ryan Anderson 2-for-5.

Shenandoah would again waste little time jumping on PSU-A in the nightcap – coach Kevin Anderson's club backed up a single run the first with four runs in both the second and third. 

The game-winning run came with one out when Ziccardy singled, advanced to second, stole third and then came home on a throwing error. The run became earned two batters later when Duckett flew out to deep centerfield.

Ziccardy, Jenkins, Anderson, Fullerton and Daniel Bowers all had two hits with Jenkins driving in a pair of runs.

Sophomore Taylor DuFrene got the win on the mound after giving up four hits in six innings before giving way Nathan Fewell for the seventh. Fewell, like Kyle Kilpatrick in game one, worked a perfect final inning to secure the victory.

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SU is back in action tomorrow afternoon in a 1:00 doubleheader against Elizabethtown.