By Jeff Sattora, GoPSUsports.com Student Staff Writer
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - The Penn State baseball players and coaches knew how big Saturday's matchup with the Michigan Wolverines was following a tough Friday night loss, and they played like it. 

The Lions found their groove Saturday as the destroyed the Wolverines in a 14-1 rout, evening the three game series at one apiece. 

Penn State was led on the offensive side of the ball by huge hitting from Jordan Steranka and Joey DeBernardis to help set the pace.  Steranka brought the power with two homeruns on the afternoon, to go along with DeBernardis going 4-5 with three RBIs.

"They're our guys, and they're going to have days like this," said head coach Robbie Wine on his two sluggers.  "It's got to carry over, we can't rely on those two guys all the time, but it's expected from those guys."

The second inning is where Penn State was really able to do damage, scoring five runs to break open a 1-0 lead to 6-0.

That rally was led by DeBernardis and Steranka, as DeBernardis singled to score a run and Steranka came up right after and homered to bring in three more.

"I'm feeling great, I know DeBo (DeBernardis) is swinging the bat really well which helps me," said Steranka on his play.  "It takes some pressure off me and I'm just seeing the ball really good right now, hoping it continues."

Those two weren't the only two hitting as freshman JC Coban went 3-5 to help the bottom of the lineup keep the pressure on all game long. 

"It's huge to keep it up the whole game, keep the pressure on them," Steranka said. 

"It (keeping the pressure on) was very important, "Coban added.  "It showed we really had a lot of confidence, we didn't want to give up, we wanted to keep hitting."

On the pitching side starter Joe Kurrasch was strong for the Lions, going seven innings and only giving up four hits for the win. 

"He was fantastic," Coban said about Kurrasch, "He came out hungry; everyone on the team was hungry."

The team will be looking to keep that hunger and try and win the rubber match of the three game series tomorrow at home at 1:05 p.m.