Bethesda, Md. - The Georgetown University baseball team picked up its second doubleheader sweep of the season with two 7-6 victories over visiting Duquesne Saturday at Shirley Povich Field. The Hoyas improve to 9-11 on the year while the Dukes fall to 2-11.

In the opener, senior right Warren Sizemore (Hamilton, Ohio/Ross) allowed just one earned run over five innings, striking out three to improve to 1-1 and Ryan Craft (Jupiter, Fla./The Benjamin School) and Matthew Johnson (Bothell, Wash./Newport) drove in two runs apiece as the Hoyas took the opener, 7-6. Sophomore righty Daniel Kennedy (W. Orange, N.J./Regis) recorded six outs for his second save of the season.

Duquesne pushed across two runs in the first inning. After the leadoff batter reached on an error, Eric Morrison singled and Steve Maiolo neatly placed an infield bunt single down the third base line to load the bases. Darek Mechling drove in the leadoff batter Pat Kimutis with a sacrifice fly to centerfield. Aaron Janusey then singled to plate Morrison as the Dukes went up 2-0.

Georgetown answered with four runs in their half of the third to take a 4-2 lead. Nick Barnicle (Lincoln, Mass./Belmont Hill) reached to lead off the inning by get hit by a pitch. Then with one out, Mark McLaughlin (Bothell, Wash./Newport) and Matthew Bouchard (E. Greenwich, R.I./Bishop Hendricken) ripped consecutive singles and Barnicle raced home from second on Bouchard's knock. After Timmy Jones (Ledgewood, N.J./Morristown) walked to load the bases, Drew Dargen (Edmund, Okla,.Edmunc North) had a sacrifice fly to right field to plate McLaughlin. With two outs, Craft hammered a long double deep into the leftfield corner for two RBI and a 4-2 Hoya lead.

After the Dukes scored an unearned run in the fourth to cut the Hoya edge to 4-3, Matthew Maranges (Miami, Fla./Belen Jesuit Prep) collected his first home of the season with a drive over the leftfield wall for a 5-3 Georgetown lead.

In the fifth, Georgetown extended their lead to 7-3. Jones singled to right to lead off the frame. After Jones swiped second base, Craft singled to third base sending Jones to third. Matt Harrigan (Syracuse, N.Y./Chistian Brother Acad.) reached on an error by DU starting pitcher Adam Haun, moving Craft to second. Sharick relieved Haun and Georgetown's Matthew Johnson recorded a two-RBI single to left as the Hoyas benefited from two Duquesne errors to push across the two runs.

Duquesne wouldn't quit and tallied 2 runs in the visiting half of the sixth and cut the Hoya edge to 7-5. Maiolo doubled to lead off the inning off GU reliever Mark Dutmers (Sarasota, Fla./Riverview). Mechling walked before Janusey singled to right to drive in a run. Kennedy relieved Dutmers and got three outs on the four batters he faced.

In the nightcap, Bouchard was 3-3 with two runs scored to lead GU offensively while Maranges went 2-3 with a RBI. Freshman righty Darren Sizemore (Hamilton, Ohio/Ross) upped his record to 3-1allowing three earned runs in five innings of work.

Georgetown pushed across two runs in both the second and third innings. In the second, Maranges drove in a run with a one-out sacrifice fly to score Johnson who ripped a lead off double. Sean Baumann (Tampa, Fla./Freedom), who walked, following Johnson's double went to second base on a sacrifice and then moved to third and home on a wild pitches.

In the third, Jones had a RBI ground out before Dargen tattooed his first homer of the season over the leftfield fence.

Duquesne tied the game at 4-4 in the fourth by plating three runs in the fifth, with the big blow being a Janusey double with the bases loaded.

Georgetown answered with three runs in the fifth and sixth innings to take a 7-4 lead. The Hoyas collected three hits in the two frames and took advantage of three Duquesne errors.

The game would stay scoreless into the ninth when the Dukes pushed across two runs before Daniel Kennedy once again slammed the door shut. Kennedy came with one out and runners on first and third. After a RBI single by Anthony Manley and a walk with the bases loaded to Alex Sharick scored Janusey to make the score 7-6, Kennedy got the final two outs. With the bases loaded, he enduced a fielder's choice that cut down the would be tying run at the plate and then got a groundout back to the mound to end it.

The Hoyas and the Dukes will conclude the three-game weekend series on Sunday, March 19 at Shirley Povich Field. The first pitch is set for noon.