Pitt-Bradford baseball hosted Penn College Friday in its 2017 home opener at the Kessel Athletic Complex, dropping both games to the Wildcats, 8-7 and 6-3.

The Panthers stormed back in the opener after falling behind 7-2 only to lose in extra innings.

Starter Ryan Boyer retired the first seven Wildcat hitters he faced, but a one-out single in the third opened the floodgates for Penn College. The Wildcats would score seven runs on five hits, aided by a pair of errors, to chase Boyer from the game.

Tim Brown doubled with two outs in the third, scoring a pair of runs, and Austin Parent’s RBI single up the middle capped a two-run fourth, trimming the deficit to 7-6. In the fifth, Jay Clinger doubled with one out, and he tied the game on Brown’s base hit.

Brown had three of the Panthers’ nine hits, and Clinger scored twice. Benjamin Hayes was charged with the loss, allowing one run on two hits in a single inning of work. Andrew Bacha was sharp in his relief appearance, surrendering only two hits while striking out four and walking one.

Pitt-Bradford also squandered an early lead in game two, as Penn College erupted for four runs in the fourth inning to win 6-3.

A pair of errors in the second inning led to two Panther runs, and Brown’s run-scoring bloop single added a third. The Wildcats got a run back in the third, and a trio of doubles in the fourth led to a four-run explosion. Penn College added a run in the sixth, and the game was called before the start of the seventh inning due to darkness.

Pitt-Bradford mustered just three hits and stranded 10 runners on base, including leaving the bases loaded in the final inning. Matthew Hogue took the loss, allowing five runs on eight hits in 3.2 innings.

Pitt-Bradford drops to 4-12 on the season and will travel to Medaille Wednesday for the start of conference play.