MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - The Plattsburgh State offense exploded for 17 runs and 21 hits on Friday as the Cardinals swept Penn State-Berks, 9-4, and Manchester, 8-6, in a baseball split-doubleheader at Griffith Field at The Ripken Experience. The Cardinals improve to 2-1 on the season.

In the first game against PSU-Berks, Matt O'Leary (1-0) pitched a complete game by scattering nine hits and four earned runs. Donny Coolidge led a 10-hit attack with two doubles and a triple. Tory Bouyea and Danny Roeser each had two hits.

Plattsburgh jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the top-half of the first inning, sparked by Coolidge's two-run triple down the left-field line. The Cardinals made it 7-1 in the second inning when Bouyea drove in three of his four runs on a blast over the right-field wall.

In the second game, Plattsburgh avenged its season-opening 6-1 loss to Manchester. Coolidge rapped three hits, including a double, and had three RBI. Anthony Presto, Kris Cauchon and Bouyea contributed two hits apiece to help form an 11-hit attack.

With the score tied at 3 in the top of the fifth, Coolidge crossed home plate for the go-ahead run on a throwing error by the second baseman.

The Cardinals scored four insurance runs in the sixth for an 8-3 cushion and then had to hang on for the victory.  Coolidge had the key hit with a two-run single.

Starter Tyler Greene worked five innings for the win, allowing three hits and an unearned run. Dan Tracy pitched the final 1-1/3 frames to earn his first career save, giving up just a hit and striking out three.