Cabrini University Cavaliers (15-4, 4-0 AEC) vs. Immaculata University Mighty Macs (10-5, 2-0 AEC)
Saturday, March 30, Noon
Cabrini-Carroll Field, Radnor, PA
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Last Meeting: Cabrini 1, Immaculata 5 (5/2/18)
Offensively, the Blue and White were led by senioÂ
Tyler Norris and
Brett Kuchera who tallied two hits apiece.Â
SophomoreÂ
Mack McKisson,
Dylan Butler and
Alex Del Giudice split the Cavs' remaining three hits with one each.Â
Josh Breittholz toed the rubber and after a shaky first inning, the senior settled in nicely tossing 4.2 innings and allowing three earned runs.Â
Two of Breittholz's three earned runs came in the first inning as he hit Immaculata's Tyler Kmeic with one out. Kmeic was promptly brought home thanks to a triple down the right field line from Justin Dempsey. A single up the middle off the bat of Greg Dahl made it a 2-0 Mighty Mac lead. Breittholz would retire the next batter to limit the damage.Â
Decker was superb on the night as he allowed just the one run in the fourth and went seven strong innings. The righty scattered seven hits and struck out six.Â
Cabrini Last Time Out: Cabrini 8, Ramapo 4 (3/26/19)
FreshmanÂ
Brandon Loner delivered the big blow as the lefty crushed a fastball over the right field wall for a third inning grand slam. Loner finished the day 1-4 with one run and a season high five RBI's.Â
SophomoreÂ
Mack McKisson tallied a game high four hits and four runs scored, while also stealing two bases to bring his season total to seven. FreshmanÂ
Joey Moyer marked the hit column twice, while also scoring a run. Junior'sÂ
Henry Peguero andÂ
Joe Aurite rounded out the Cavaliers with hits.Â
JuniorÂ
Kyran Weemaels toed the rubber for the Cavs and turned in three innings of two run ball. SophomoreÂ
Ray Lutick collected the victory, his second of the season, after relieving Weemaels in the fourth. Lutick tossed two innings and allowed three hits and one earned, while striking out four.Â
Lutick, as well as juniorÂ
Ivan Varela, sophomoreÂ
Drew Swire and seniorÂ
Tyler Ronayne combined for six innings of relief and allowed just two runs.Â
Immaculata Last Time Out: Immaculata 1, No. 7 Rowan 11 (3/28/19)
Rowan struck first with two runs on a pair of run-scoring singles in the bottom of the first before tacking on three more in the second to jump out to a 5-0 lead.
After adding a run in the third on a wild pitch, the Profs posted another three-run frame in the fourth to take control of the contest.
Kmiec got Immaculata on the board in the top of the fifth when Sacco lined a leadoff single to center and came around to score on Tyler Kmiec's two-bagger to left-center, but the Macs stranded Kmiec at third and were unable to plate another run the rest of the way.
5 Factors for Cabrini
- The Cavaliers win streak now sits at a program best seven games.Â
- Cabrini has scored at least 13 runs in five games this season. Comparatively, the Cavs scored more than 13 runs a total of four times through their first two seasons.Â
- Over his last three games, McKisson has tallied 10 hits, nine runs, five RBI's, two stolen bases, and zero strikeouts.Â
- The Cavs boast four players with at least five steals in Tyler Norris, Steven Priest, Juan Familia and McKisson.
- The Blue and White lead the Atlantic East with nine home runs - five more than the next closest team (Marymount, 4).Â
5 Factors for Immaculata
- The Mighty Macs have played a pair of nationally ranked teams in No. 7 Rowan University and No. 18 Salisbury University, but have lost each and been outscored by a combined 16-3.Â
- After stringing together eight straight wins from March 12th to March 24th, the Mighty Macs have dropped two in a row to Ursinus College and No. 7 Rowan University.Â
- Immaculata owns a 4-1 record all time against the Cavaliers.Â
- The trio of Corey Pezak, Tyler Kmiec and Cameron Delisle each boast an OPS (OBP + SLG) over 1.000, led by Kmiec's mark of 1.190.Â
- The Immaculata pitching staff has struggled to a 6.30 ERA and allowed 156 hits in 115 innings. Their .316 batting average against also ranks as the second highest mark in the conference.Â
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TALE OF THE TAPE |
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Cabrini |
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Immaculata |
15-4 (4-0 AEC) |
Record |
10-5 (2-0 AEC) |
.290 |
Batting Average |
.286 |
169 |
Runs |
117 |
.401 |
Slugging % |
.395 |
38 |
Stolen Bases |
27 |
3.85 |
ERA |
6.30 |
155 |
Strikeouts (Pitching) |
94 |
.240 |
Batting Average Against |
.307 |
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