The Slippery Rock University baseball team let a 5-1 third-inning lead slip away as Shepherd (W.Va.) plated four runs in the sixth and two in the seventh en route to a 7-5 victory over The Rock in the second game of a doubleheader Tuesday at Critchfield Park.

The Rock dropped the first game, 4-3.

SRU left-fielder Jacob Oswalt led the team's 15-hit attack in Game 2 with two singles, a triple, a run scored and two RBI.

Slippery Rock High graduate Mike DeCola shouldered the loss after pitching one inning and giving up two runs on three hits in the top of the seventh inning.

In Tuesday's first game, The Rock (21-19) scored three runs in the fourth frame to take a 3-2 lead, but Shepherd chased SRU starter Vince Lloyd from the game with two outs in the fifth inning before scoring the winning run on a balk in the sixth.

Scott Bender tallied three hits for The Rock.