RADNOR, PA. - The Cabrini baseball swept their three-game season series versus Marymount University Saints with a pair of victories this afternoon thanks to a strong performance on the mound in the opener and a huge seven run inning in the nightcap.


Game 1: Cabirni 4, Marymount 3
Despite the low score, game one featured plenty of drama as the Cavs clung to a one-run lead over the final three innings of play.

Senior Mack McKisson led the offensive charge as he finished 1-1 with a two-RBI double to right field and a pair of walks. While his classmates Garrett Laraia (1-2) and Dustin Sutton (1-3) along with graduate student Steven Priest (1-3, 1 RBI) and sophomore Christian Strickland (1-3) rounded out the Cavaliers to mark the hit column.

Freshman Brian Dino toed the rubber for the start of game one and continued his recent hot stretch as he limited the Saints to three runs on five hits over a full 7.0 innings of work. The lefty set this season's single-game high with nine strikeouts.

Cabrini opened up the scoring in the bottom of the second thanks to his aforementioned two-RBI double, 2-0. 

The Saints quickly answered, however, with three hits and three runs in the top of the third.

The Cavs regained the lead in the bottom of the fourth as Gil Peralta narrowly reached first and plated Strickland on what was almost a Marymount 6-4-3 double play to potentially end the innings, 4-3.

Dino and the Diamond Cavs limited the Saints to three consecutive 1-2-3 innings to end the game, thanks in part to a pair of strikeouts as well as a 4-6-3 double play in the top of the fifth as the Cavs escaped with the aforementioned 4-3 victory in game one.
 
Game 2: Cabrini 12, Marymount 7
The Cavaliers used another come-from-behind effort in game two, highlighted by an impressive seven runs on four hits in the bottom of the fourth en route to their nightcap victory over the Marymount Saints. 

The offense, totaled 10 hits, led by junior a pair from sophomore standout Pat Toal who finished 2-5, on the day with three RBI and two runs including his three RBI homerun in the bottom of the eighth.

Senior Gil Peralta also went 2-for-5 at the plate, with one run, and three RBI. Mack McKisson went 2-for-3 at the plate with two RBI, two runs and two walks. Senior Garrett Laraia, graduate students Steven Priest (two RBI) and Brendan VanBelle (1 RBI), along with freshman Sean Glatts rounded out the Cavs to mark the hit column.

After falling behind 2-0 to start the game, Peralta got things started for the Cavs with an RBI-single to plate Laraia in the bottom of the third, 2-1.

With two runners in scoring position Marymount's Spencer Robson homered to increase the Saints lead to 5-1.

Four walks, three singles, a double and an error as the Blue and White batted around the bottom of the fourth to take a 8-5 lead.

With runners on first and second thanks to a walk for Priest and a single for Toal, Van Belle got the bats going with a RBI-double for the Cavs first run of the inning. Three walks later, Peralta was up to bat down a run with the bases loaded, he hit a two-RBI single to right field to take a 6-5 lead. Not to be outdone, Priest followed with his own two-RBI single later in the inning to increase the Cabrini lead to 8-5.

Marymount responded with two runs in the top of the sixth but McKisson hit an RBI-double down the left field line in the bottom of the inning to plate Sutton and maintain a two run advantage, 9-7.

Two scoreless innings followed before Toal hit a three-RBI bomb into the trees in the bottom of the eighth, 12-7

McKisson closed out the game on the mound, as he put in three innings of work. The senior ended the game with a pair of strikeouts in a 1-2-3 ninth inning, to secure the 12-7 AEC victory.
 
Freshman Jordan Silvestri came on in relief in the top of the fifth and earned the win for the Cavs as he allowed two runs on two hits and two strikouts in two innings of work. McKisson secured the save with no runs, no hits and three strikeouts in three innings. 

Following today's doubleheader, the Diamond Cavs move to 19-6 overall and 4-2 in conference play. They will look to add to their win total on Thursday, April 14^th when they play host to the Immaculata University Mighty Macs. Game time is slated for 3:30pm.