DALLAS (Pa.) – The Delaware Valley University baseball team wrapped up Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Freedom play with a pair of losses at defending champions Misericordia University on Saturday afternoon. The Cougars took game one, 8-5, and won the nightcap, 9-1.
Misericordia has won the league and advanced to the NCAA championships every year since 2011, and finishes the 2019 campaign atop the standings again with a 16-5 mark and will host fourth seed King's College in the opening round of the conference tournament.
The Aggies finish conference play at 7-14 and sit at 12-24 overall with a doubleheader against The College of New Rochelle to wrap up the season tomorrow.
In today's opening game, Misericordia got out to an 8-1 lead after three innings and DelVal's push at a late comeback fell short.
In the fourth inning,
Cody Brown led off with a double and scored on a wild pitch, and
Timmy Lallis delivered a single through the right side to score
Josh Adamski and make it 8-3. After a walk loaded the bases with two outs, the Aggies failed to capitalize as the next batter grounded out.
DelVal loaded the bases again in the fifth and
Joey Lodato came through with a double down the right field line that scored two and made it a two-run game. After a pitching change, the threat was ended on another groundout, and DelVal stranded two more runners on base.
The Aggies went on to strand four more runners over the final two innings to fall short of the comeback and end game one, 8-5.
Lallis was 4-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored and five other players recorded multiple hits including Adamski who scored twice.
Hunter Mease pitched a complete game and allowed six earned runs on nine hits and three walks.
In game two, the Cougars went up 2-0 before
Ryan Schuetrumpf singled home Crooks to cut the deficit in half in the top of the third.
Misericordia sealed the game in the fifth and sixth frames with seven runs on eight hits and two errors and it held DelVal to one hit and no runs over the final four innings for the 9-1 final.
Crooks went 3-for-3 with a run scored in the second game and Schuetrumpf was 2-for-3 with the RBI. Adamski, Flogel, and Lodato each picked up a hit as well.
Cody Brown pitched a complete game and allowed seven earned runs with five strikeouts and one walk.
First pitch against the Blue Angels is slated for 1 p.m. tomorrow and the Aggies will have a special senior day ceremony in between games to honor the careers of its five seniors.
