The Lorain County Ironmen won for the sixth time in the last seven games with a 6-4 win over the Slippery Rock Sliders in Pennsylvania on Saturday night.

Eric Knight (Oberlin) won for the third time this season and Evan Melendez (Ashland) and Brandon Cantrill (Oberlin) led the offensive attack.

The Ironmen jumped out to an early lead in the first inning when Melendez singled and advanced to second base when the pitcher threw a pickoff throw past the first baseman.

Melendez scored when Matt McAllester (Ashland) laid down a sacrifice bunt and pitcher Brian Muransky threw the ball away again allowing McAllester to advance to 2nd. McAllester would score the second run of the inning on Stephen Hagen’s (Texas Tech) sacrifice fly to center.

Melendez scored the third run for the Ironmen when he led off the third inning with a double, advanced to third on McAllester's sacrifice bunt and scored on a wild pitch. Brandon Cantrill and Billy Urban (St. Bonaventure) both added two hits and a run scored as well.

Knight started and pitched 6 innings allowing 5 hits, 2 runs, walked 1 and struck out 6. Knight was relieved by Brian Taricska (Kent State) who threw 2 scoreless and hitless innings. Phil Brua (Oberlin) closed out the game.

The Ironmen will be back in action on Sunday at Butler. It’s a special 2:00 p.m. start time.