PIKEVILLE, Ky. -- Notre Dame swept a pair of games from host Pikeville (Ky.) on what was day two of the 2010 season for the Falcons. NDC won, 4-3, in an extra-inning opener and then blanked the Bears, 11-0, in a five-inning run-rule romp in the nightcap. (Gm-1 | Gm-2)

The Falcons got good pitching from a pair of freshmen hurlers, in left-hander #Simon Davis# and right-hander #Tyler DeCrapio#. They split the two wins on the day, as the Blue & White ran their record to 3-1. Shortstop #Travis Brown# was 4-for-7 with a double and a triple to lead the Falcon bats, which have now produced 29 runs in four games.

NDC coughed up a 3-0 lead in game one when Pikeville (1-3) plated one run in the home half of the fifth and two more in the sixth. Davis, a southpaw from Grove City, Ohio, came into the game, his first taste of collegiate action, with two out in the sixth. He fanned a batter with the winning run on second and then came back to collect four more strikeouts in the seventh and eighth.

Veteran first baseman #Brett Zientarski# knocked in the winning run for the Falcons in the top of the eighth, an RBI single that plated Brown, who had reached on a one-out double down the left-field line. Brown, a junior who transferred to NDC from Youngstown State, went 7-of-12 with four extra-base hits and four walks over the weekend. He also played a smooth shortstop, leading a Falcon defense that committed just two errors in the four games in Pikeville.

The second game on Sunday featured no such late-inning heroics. Notre Dame went up, 2-0, in the first and then tacked on four in the fourth and five in the fifth. Six of those runs were unearned, courtesy a quartet of Pikeville errors. Tyler DeCrapio cruised to a shortened, five-inning run-rule victory by allowing just three hits. All three were two-baggers, but the newcomer from Erie, Pa., spread those out and held the Bears to an 0-for-5 performance with runners in scoring position.

Brown had three hits in game two. His Falcon teammates added 10 more in what was a 13-hit barrage which included three doubles, a triple and a home run. With that offensive outburst in game two, Notre Dame closed out their first weekend of action with a .417 on-base percentage and a .464 slugging percentage. NDC outscored the Bears, 29-11, over the four-game series.