A six-run rally in the bottom of the ninth inning capped a 10-9, come-from-behind victory for the University of Scranton over Catholic University in the first game of a Landmark Conference doubleheader Saturday at Volpe Field.<\/p>\n
Scranton then won the second game, 11-5, to complete the sweep.<\/p>\n
Catholic built a 9-1 lead after 6\u00bd innings of Game 1, but the Royals scored three times in the bottom of the seventh on a two-run single by Joey Granko and a sacrifice fly by John Heitzman.<\/p>\n
Then in the bottom of the ninth, Brayden Keller led off with a pinch-hit single. He moved to second on a groundout and scored on a single by Logan Mason. After an error allowed Granko to reach, Heitzman had an RBI groundout to score Mason and make it 9-6 with two outs.<\/p>\n
Jack Portman had a pinch-hit RBI single to score Granko. Jared Cassella was hit by a pitch and Aidan Casey walked to load the bases. Pinch-hitter Tyler Woo walked to force home a run and bring the Royals within 9-8. Keller, batting for the second time in the inning, was hit by a pitch to force home the tying run. Conor Campbell singled to score Casey with the winning run. It was the 100th RBI of Campbell\u2019s career.<\/p>\n
In Game 2, Catholic took a 3-0 lead in the top of the second, but Scranton answered with four runs in the bottom of the third, one in the fourth and three in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Campbell, Cassella and Granko had two hits apiece in the nightcap for the Royals (8-2 league, 19-6 overall). Vincent Napolitano had two RBIs.<\/p>\n
Keystone 13, St. Mary\u2019s 2; Keystone 17, St. Mary\u2019s 1: At La Plume, Keystone College ran its win streak to seven and stayed unbeaten in United East Conference play with a doubleheader sweep of St. Mary\u2019s College, Maryland.<\/p>\n
After spotting St. Mary\u2019s a 2-0 lead in the top of the first, Keystone scored in each of innings second through sixth to take the first game. Dee Rice led the Giants, going 3 for 3 with one RBI. Dante Ruby and Benny Hess each added two hits and two RBIs. Jaxson Monroney and Carlos Pascual had two RBIs apiece. Leam Powell threw five scoreless innings of relief with three hits, no walks and four strikeouts to get the win.<\/p>\n
Already leading, 3-0, in the second game, a nine-run third inning sent Keystone on to the sweep. Rice contributed a two-run double, Monroney had an RBI double before Hess capped the outburst with a grand slam.<\/p>\n
Cooper Ryan and relievers Noah Parks and Aidan Kee combined on a four-hitter for the Giants (5-0, 13-7).<\/p>\n
Mercer CC 28, Lackawanna 6; Mercer CC 5, Lackawanna 3: At Throop, No. 20 Mercer County Community College swept an NJCAA Region 19 Division II doubleheader from Lackawanna College at Mid Valley High School.<\/p>\n
Mercer hit four home runs in the fifth inning \u2014 including a grand slam by Lukas Mullen \u2014 and scored 16 runs to break open a one-run lead in the opener. The Mustangs then added eight runs in the top of the sixth.<\/p>\n
Sean Moore had two hits and one RBI for Lackawanna. Mark Zuppo and Julian Abreu each had two RBIs.<\/p>\n
Mikey Amrhein\u2019s first two-run home run in the top of the fifth knotted the second game, 3-3, and his second two-run home run in the seventh broke the tie and gave Mercer the sweep. Amrhein drove in all five runs for the Mustangs.<\/p>\n
Danny Stickney, Kolton Haifley and Abreu each had one RBI for the Falcons (4-5, 9-18-1), who managed only four singles in the nightcap.<\/p>\n
Softball<\/p>\n
At Scranton, Mekenzie Dineen\u2019s single in the bottom of the sixth inning broke a tie and gave Lackawanna College a 5-4 victory over Delaware Tech Community College, earning a split of their NJCAA Region 19 Division II doubleheader.<\/p>\n
Delaware Tech won the first game, 5-4, to hand Lackawanna (9-1, 25-8) its first region loss.<\/p>\n
Laniah Tasker was 3 for 3 with two RBIs in the second game for the Lady Falcons. Ayahna Fleisher, Mackenzie Adolfson and Mia Scalese each added two hits.<\/p>\n
Madison Myers and Gabrielle Pepper each had two-run doubles in the sixth inning of the opener to help Delaware Tech erase a 3-1 deficit.<\/p>\n
Fleisher had two hits for Lackawanna in the first game and Gracie Sokol had a two-run single.<\/p>\n
Track & field<\/p>\n
At Collegeville, Keystone College competed at the Ursinus College Springfest on Saturday.<\/p>\n
For the women\u2019s team, Jamilah Higgins placed 23rd in the long jump at 12 feet, 6\u00be inches and 43rd in the 200 meters in 30.30 seconds.<\/p>\n
Jahvani Vazquez led the men\u2019s team by finishing ninth in the high jump at 5 feet, 8\u00be inches. He also was 26th in the long jump at 16-7.<\/p>\n
Jaylien Moore was 23rd in the shot put at 33-9\u00bd. Ayzeem Hassan placed 24th in the discus at 106-8. Nathan Barragan was 28th in the long jump at 15-0. Marquez Strickland finished 42nd in the 400 meters in 55.75 seconds and 41st in the 200 meters in 23.58.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A six-run rally in the bottom of the ninth inning capped a 10-9, come-from-behind victory for the University…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2300,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-157658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-college-sports","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}