Baseball Drops Two at Immaculata
Marywood dropped two games to Immaculata Sunday to move to 5-5 in CSAC play

Baseball Drops Two at Immaculata

Baseball - 4/10/2011 8:43:23 PM

Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score

Immaculata, PA - Immaculata University baseball team hosted CSAC foe Marywood and extended its winning streak to eight by beating the Pacers, 5-3 and 2-0, on Sunday afternoon. The Mighty Macs improve to 11-9 overall and 5-3 in CSAC play while the Pacers fall to 12-9 overall and 5-5 in the conference.

In the opener, Alex Kobylinski started on the mound for Immaculata and went 5.2 innings, allowing three runs on eight hits. Richard Cusic (1-0) came in relief to earn the win without allowing a hit.

Immaculata got on the scoreboard in the first inning when Matt Hardy hit a sacrifice fly to right field scoring Dave News. Marywood answered scoring three runs in the second but would only be in the lead until the third inning when the Mighty Macs knocked in two runs to tie the game, 3-3.

Joe DiGiaimo went 3-for-4 at the plate with one RBI while Matt Bolden and Dave News went 2-for-3 with one RBI each. News scored two runs in the victory. Joe Diskin and Thomas Czerw each had two hits for Marywood while David Maione had two RBIs.

The Mighty Macs plated two runs in the sixth to secure the 5-3 win from Pat Boulwaure and pinch runner Brandon Seibert. Tim Freda took the loss for Marywood after allowing three earned runs on 10 hits over six full innings of work.

In game two, neither team had scored until the fourth inning when Immaculata's Eli Vottero knocked in a run to take a 1-0 lead. DiGiaimo scored in the fifth on a throwing error to give the Mighty Macs' its second point which would eventually win the ballgame, 2-0.

Bryan McHale (3-2) pitched all seven innings and struck out six in the complete-game effort. Marywood's Ryan Pelle (5-1) took his first loss on the mound giving up six hits on two runs.

Marywood hosts the Mighty Macs tomorrow afternoon in Scranton at 3:00 pm to complete the regular season series with a single nine-inning game.

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