Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 DALLAS (PA) – Brandon Bell knocked in three runs on the day, including the game-winning tally in the eighth inning of the nightcap, as visiting Delaware Valley College split a doubleheader with defending Freedom Conference champion Misericordia University. The Cougars took the opener, 6-3, before the Aggies rallied for a 3-2 triumph in the nightcap.

The split moved Delaware Valley's record to 15-14 overall and 4-10 in the Freedom while Misericordia saw its marks go to 22-7 and 11-3. The series will conclude with a single, nine-inning game in Doylestown on Monday.

Bell entered the day leading the Aggies in batting (.350), doubles (8) and RBIs (24). The junior second baseman had two hits in the second game, but it was a perfectly execute suicide squeeze that produced the winning run. Pete O'Hara led off the eighth with a single through the left side and advanced all the way to third on a throwing error on Jordan Heisler's at-bat. Bell then got the bunt down and O'Hara scored to make it 3-2.

Misericordia's Mike Imperllittiere led off the bottom of the eighth with a walk and pinch-runner Bryce Frankenfield moved up two bases on a sacrifice bunt and a foul out to right. However, Delaware Valley's Chris Kelly got a called third strike on Steve Sulcoski to wrap up the win.

Kelly pitched the final three innings and did not allow a run or a hit as he improved to 2-4 on the year. Cody Hudnall started and allowed two runs and four hits in five innings. O'Hara, like Bell, finished 2-for-4. Zach Kulikowski had an RBI single in the second while Connor Buhler added a run-scoring single in the sixth to tie the game.

Four different Cougars had one hit apiece, including Kenny Durling who hit a solo home run in the second. Will Minderjahn went six innings and allowed two runs on five hits. Matt Karabin took the loss.

In the opener, Misericordia scored four times in the bottom of the second, including a two-run single by Chris Boroch. The Aggies pulled to within one in the fourth as Bell drove in two with a single and Buhler RBI double.

However, the Cougars put up single digits in the fifth and sixth innings for the 6-3 final. Durling tripled then scored a wild pitch in the fifth, while Ryan Cacchioli had an RBI single in the sixth. Cacchioli was 3-for-4 while Durling was 1-for-2 with two runs scored. Ryan Dorosh allowed one earned run in five innings for the win.

Bell, Buhler, O'Hara and Jim Calabrese had one hit apiece for Delaware Valley. Calabrese pitched five innings and took the loss.