RADNOR, PA - The Cabrini baseball team will have to wait until next Tuesday, March 19th to finish tonight's game against the Eastern University Eagles as the contest was suspended due to darkness.
Cabrini and Eastern completed 10 innings and the two teams were tied at five when the game was ultimately called.
Sophomore
Mack McKisson led the Cavs with two hits and two RBI's, including a sacrifice fly. Junior
Henry Peguero was the only other Cavalier to tally multiple hits as the catcher finished 2-4 with a run scored, one RBI, and a stolen base.
Freshmen Garret Laraia and
Brandon Loner, as well as sophomore
JD Barrett and junior
Joe Aurite rounded out the Cavs to mark the hit column as each finished with one hit. Laraia and sophomore
Steven Priest added the Cavs' other RBI's.
Sophomore
Corey Hunt toed the rubber and tossed four innings of two run ball for the Blue and White. He allowed just a pair of hits and three walks, while striking out three.
The righty cruised through the opening three frames for the Cavs as he carried a perfect game into the fourth. The offense gave Hunt early run support as they pushed across four run in the first two innings, highlighted by three RBI singles from McKisson, Peguero and Laraia.
Eastern responded in the top of the fourth, however as a single and a pair of walks loaded the bases with nobody out. Eastern pushed across their first run thanks to a sac fly from Zach Belansek and promptly reloaded the bases following the third walk of the inning. Liam Clark followed with a single through the right side to cut the visitors deficit in half, before Hunt induced an inning ending double play to escape further damage.
Cabrini got one of the runs back in the bottom half of the inning to push their lead back to 5-2. After loading the bases following an single, walk and error, the Eastern reliever delivered a pitch up and in to Priest that caught the third baseman on the hand. The sophomore took his base and forced in the Cavalier run in the process.
Eastern would again answer as a two RBI double trimmed the Cavalier lead to 5-4 in the top of the fifth.
The score would hold steady until the eighth, when Eastern's Brady DiGiacomo clubbed a game tying home run to left off sophomore reliever
Drew Swire.
The Blue and White would threaten in the ensuing frame as they put runners on second and third, but the Eagles escaped trouble with a strikeout to end the inning. In total, the Cavaliers out hit the Eagles 8-6 and worked eight walks, not including a pair of hit batters, but struggled to take advantage with runners on as they left 15 men on base.
As mentioned, today's game is slated to resume on Tuesday, March 19th at Eastern University. A game time has yet to be determined.