John DeStefano and Ryan Boyd combined on a six-hit shutout as the University of Scranton blanked Wilkes University, 3-0, in a Landmark Conference baseball game Wednesday at Bruggeworth Field in Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n
DeStefano (1-0) pitched 7.2 innings, did not walk a batter and struck out eight. Boyd retired all four batters he faced in the final 1.1 innings with one strikeout to earn his second save.<\/p>\n
Scranton got the only run it would need in the top of the fifth. With one out, Roman Valvano singled and took second on an error. Conor Campbell singled and Jared Cassella hit a sacrifice fly to center to score Valvano.<\/p>\n
In the top of the seventh, Aidan Casey led off with a double and Valvano singled. Campbell delivered Casey with a sacrifice fly. Valvano then scored on a single by Logan Mason.<\/p>\n
Valvano had three hits for the Royals (20-7 overall, 9-3 league). Campbell and James Nitti each added two hits.<\/p>\n
Jack Mathis led Wilkes (15-9, 12-3) with two hits.<\/p>\n
Marywood 10, Saint Elizabeth 0 (7 inn.): At Scranton, Danny Tiedemann hurled a complete-game, three-hit shutout as Marywood University beat Saint Elizabeth University in an Atlantic East Conference matchup.<\/p>\n
Tiedemann walked one and struck out five in his seven-inning gem to improve to 5-0. The senior righthander from Manorville, New York, leads the conference in wins.<\/p>\n
Cam Bott, the reigning Atlantic East Conference Player of the Week, has two hits and two RBIs for the Pacers (15-9, 4-2), who broke open a 2-0 lead with four runs in the sixth and seventh innings to invoke the 10-run rule. Tanner Vicendese added two RBIs.<\/p>\n
Monroe CC 7, Lackawanna 3; Lackawanna 8, Monroe CC 4: At Rochester, New York, Lackawanna College split a nonregion doubleheader with Monroe Community College.<\/p>\n
Lackawanna managed just three hits in the first game \u2014 two by Sean Moore, including a double. Monroe took immediate control with four runs in the bottom of the first inning.<\/p>\n
A five-run fourth inning helped the Falcons (10-19-1) win Game Two and earn a split. Julian Montez had two hits and two RBIs. Jake Virbitsky and Julian Abreu contributed two hits and one RBI.<\/p>\n
Softball<\/p>\n
At Edwardsville, the University of Scranton split a Landmark Conference doubleheader with Wilkes University on Wednesday at the Ralston Athletic Comples. The Royals won the opener in nine innings, 3-1, and the Lady Colonels took the nightcap, 6-5.<\/p>\n
Quin Doherty\u2019s two-run home run in the top of the ninth inning of the first game broke a 1-1 tie and gave Scranton the win. Emma Douglas allowed one unearned run and four hits with four walks and seven strikeouts to improve to 9-2.<\/p>\n
Game Two saw the Royals fall behind in the first inning, 4-0, rally to take a 5-4 lead in the top of the fourth, only to have Wilkes score twice in the bottom of the fifth to salvage the split.<\/p>\n
Gianna Muliero had a three-run double to highlight a four-run fourth for Scranton (14-9, 3-5). Celia Totaro had two hits and one RBI and Alli Babino chipped in two hits.<\/p>\n
Back-to-back RBI doubled by Julia Kapitula and Hana Cross in the fifth were the difference for Wilkes (13-7, 3-5). Olivia Dougher had three hits, including a two-run home run in the first. Kapitula and Talia Piragas added two hits apiece.<\/p>\n
Men\u2019s lacrosse<\/p>\n
At Bethlehem, the University of Scranton remained perfect in the Landmark Conference with a 20-6 victory over Moravian University at John Makuvek Field.<\/p>\n
Kyle Holmes and Quinn Carson each scored five goals for the Royals (7-6, 5-0). Carson also had four assists and Holmes two. Brian Kraemer followed with four goals and two assists, while Jason Kozak totaled three goals and one assist. Shawn Martin won 10 of 14 faceoffs.<\/p>\n
Defensively, Scranton held Moravian to one goal in each of the final three quarters.<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s lacrosse<\/p>\n
At Scranton, the University of Scranton used a six-goal third quarter to break a halftime tie and outlast Moravian University, 14-8, in a Landmark Conference game at Weiss Field.<\/p>\n
Eileen Hewitt scored four goals \u2014 including the 100th of her career in the third quarter \u2014 and assisted on four others to lead the Royals (9-4, 5-0). She also had eight draw controls to become the second player in program history with 200 career draw controls.<\/p>\n
Jillian Lopez added six draw controls to also surpass 200 for her career and become the third player in program history to reach the milestone.<\/p>\n
Colleen Mullin also had four goals, while Grace DiDominica notched her first career hat trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John DeStefano and Ryan Boyd combined on a six-hit shutout as the University of Scranton blanked Wilkes University,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2300,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-161591","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\/161591","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=161591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}