CRESSON, Pa. – The Penn State Altoona baseball team came out on the losing end of a high-scoring affair with nearby Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference rival Mount Aloysius College on Tuesday afternoon, falling 19-13 to the Mounties at Calandra-Smith Field.

Penn State Altoona (9-12, 0-5 AMCC) fell behind 6-0 after the top of the first inning, but the Lions put 10 runs on the board over their next three frames to jump ahead, 10-6. However, Mount Aloysius (7-17, 2-3 AMCC) surged back to win, with the Mounties' victory keyed by an eight-run top of the fifth.

Seven different Lion batters had a multi-hit performance, as Penn State Altoona totaled 22 hits as a team.

Brian Chelli (West Hartford, CT/Hall) led the way, going 5-for-6 with two triples, two RBI, two runs scored, and two stolen bases. Chelli tied the Penn State Altoona baseball team's single-game records for hits (5) and triples (2).

Cole Strick (Windber, PA/Windber) went 3-for-4 with a double, a triple, and two RBI. Owen Dombrosky (Hollidaysburg, PA/Bishop Guilfoyle) hit 3-for-6 with a double, an RBI, and a run scored.

Jonathan Rauch (Pittsburgh, PA/Baldwin) hit his sixth home run of the year for the Lions, finishing the day 2-for-5 with three RBI, three runs scored, and a walk. Judd Dasso (Brentwood, TN/Brentwood) hit 2-for-6 with two doubles and two runs scored. Aidan Donovan (Staten Island, NY/St. Peter's) was 2-for-4 with three RBI, a run scored, and a walk, and Jarek Szaflarski (Greencastle, PA/Greencastle-Antrim) was also 2-for-4 with a run scored and a walk.

Rauch made the start at pitcher and took a no-decision after tossing the first inning. Ryan Schellhase (Fayetteville, PA/Chambersburg) sustained the loss, going the next 3 2/3 innings and striking out three batters. Michael Labisi (Mountainside, NJ/Governor Livingston) pitched 1 1/3 innings out of the pen, allowing no earned runs in the process. Sean Wing (Staten Island, NY/St. Peter's) finished the game, pitching the final three frames and recording three strikeouts.

Mount Aloysius jumped out to a 6-0 advantage in the top of the first, getting run-scoring hits by Anthony Maseto, Michael Todd, and Tyler Day, as well as a bases-loaded walk drawn by Logan Quade.

Penn State Altoona responded in the bottom half of the inning, when Rauch and Dombrosky's singles each brought in a run before Donovan's two-run base hit to center cut the Mount Aloysius lead to 6-4.

The Lions pulled even with the Mounties on a Rauch two-run homer to right in the bottom of the second. Later in the inning, Zach Ingold (Pittsburgh, PA/Baldwin) scored on a Donovan single before Strick's two-run triple to right center pushed Penn State Altoona to a 9-6 lead. Ingold's two-out RBI hit to left in the third extended the Lions' advantage to four runs, 10-6.

Mount Aloysius struck back in the top of the fourth, when Trent Dickson's two-run homer to center narrowed the gap to 10-8. But the Lions got both runs back in the bottom of the fourth, when Szaflarski scored on a wild pitch and Chelli drove in Dasso with a triple to left center.

But the Mounties fought back in front in the top of the fifth, thanks to an eight-run inning that put the home team up 16-12. A sacrifice fly by Tyler Alexander in the top of the sixth made it 17-12.

Chelli's RBI single up the middle in the bottom of the sixth added a run to Penn State Altoona's total and made it a four-run game, 17-13.

But the Mounties added to their lead on Michael Todd's two-RBI single up the middle in the top of the ninth, and Mount Aloysius went on to deal the Lions a 19-13 loss.

Penn State Altoona baseball returns to Cresson this Saturday, April 4, to complete the three-game series with the Mounties, as the teams are set to battle in a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m.