RADNOR, Pa. – The Cabrini University baseball team rallied for three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning Wednesday afternoon as the Cavaliers topped Marymount University 5-4 in comeback fashion in the first round of the 2023 Atlantic East Conference championship tournament. 
 
In the bottom of the eighth, head coach Nick Weisheipl called on junior Jon Sepe to pinch-hit with the bases loaded, down by one run. Sepe delivered with a first-pitch-swinging two-run single up the middle to plate the tying run in Zack Brook and what proved to be the winning run in pinch runner Keegan Miller to put the Cavs ahead 5-4.
 
The Cavaliers fell behind 2-0 in the second as Marymount's Craig Sodano hit a two-run homer to left and put Cabrini behind the eight-ball early on. Then in the fifth, Dickerson fired up the Cabrini dugout with a two-run home run over the left field wall to knot the game at two apiece after five innings. 
 
After Dickerson's game-tying jack, Cavaliers starter Jordan Silvestri cruised through the sixth, but in the seventh, the sophomore let up a homer to Saints clean-up hitter Bryce Smith who put Marymount up 3-2. In the eighth, the Saints tacked on an insurance run on a sacrifice fly and went into the bottom half leading by two runs before Sepe's eighth inning heroics. 
 
Right-hander Dom Marotta came on in the ninth to close out the game as the junior struck out the side and locked down his fourth save of the season.
 
With the win, the Cavaliers advance to the winner's side of the bracket and will face No. 1-seeded Immaculata University on Friday, May 12. First pitch is set for 12:15 p.m.