Lakeland, FL - Freshman Will Coleman and junior Joe Rooney combined to allow just seven hits in 13 innings as the Clarkson University Baseball starters mowed through the Oneonta State lineup for a doubleheader sweep, taking the opener 10-2 and the nightcap 3-0 at Kathleen High School.

The Golden Knights improved to 4-0 with the wins over Oneonta State, winning their first four games to start the season for the first time since 2003 when the team began the year 7-0. The Red Dragons fell to 3-5 this year. Clarkson will take on Brockport in a nine-inning affair starting at 5:00 pm on Saturday.

Will Coleman began his first collegiate start with four perfect innings, and by the time he allowed an unearned run in the top of the fifth inning, Clarkson had scored nine times. In the first inning, John Coleman reached on an error and was sent home with a triple by Chris Miller for the first run. Miller was then sent home on a blooper from Dom Pirro to give the Knights a 2-0 advantage. The following inning Nolan Driscoll led off the frame with a single and was plated by a double from Greg Jasek to give Clarkson a 3-0 lead, but in the fourth the Knights opened the game up with six runs. Jasek drove in a run with a sacrifice fly and Pirro sent two more home on a double to left. Two batters later Matt Jenack singled home two more and his pinch-runner Connor Dietrich scored on an error at second base.

In the top of the fifth, Oneonta picked up a run on a bases-loaded hit by pitch and then added another in the sixth with an RBI single from Dylan Stamile to pull the Red Dragons within seven, but in the bottom half of the inning Clarkson scored their 10th run. Paul Ludden opened the inning with a double on the first pitch he saw and moved around the bases on a groundout and a wild pitch.

John Coleman, Jasek, Pirro, Ludden and Nolan Driscoll each recorded two hits in the game, with Pirro plating three runs. Will Coleman went six innings, allowing just three hits and two walks while whiffing four.

 In the nightcap, the Knights' offense was muted slightly in comparison to the offensive outburst in the first game, but they still scored enough in the first inning for starter Joe Rooney. John Coleman began the game with a single to center and scored on a double play to give Clarkson a 1-0 lead. Two innings later Coleman doubled and came around on an error by the Oneonta second baseman. Jasek, who reached on the error, then came home on a liner to right by Pirro, making the score 3-0.

That was more than enough for Rooney. Though the junior started slow by walking the first batter of the game, he allowed only two hits through the first five innings. He was aided by a Pirro outfield assist in the second when the sophomore threw a waist-high seed to the plate to cut down a runner. In the sixth, after Rooney allowed a pair of baserunners to open the frame, a wild pitch was gathered in by catcher Tim Beninati, and he was able to tag out an advancing runner at the plate to end the threat.

John Coleman and Dom Pirro once again had two hits, and Rooney finished his first collegiate start with a seven-inning complete game, allowing four hits and three walks and striking out six.