Marywood University rallied from a three-run, fifth-inning deficit to upset top-seeded Centenary University, 4-3, in the\u00a0opening game of the Atlantic East Conference baseball playoffs Thursday.<\/p>\n
The victory marks the first playoff win in program history for the Pacers.<\/p>\n
Centenary plated single runs in the first, third and fourth innings to build a 3-0 advantage.<\/p>\n
Marywood, the No. 4 seed, began its comeback in the top of the fifth. Nick Ruiz singled and scored on an RBI single from Cam Bott. Evan Bruder followed with a double before Adam Ginsberg drove home Bott with a groundout to trim the deficit to 3-2.<\/p>\n
The Pacers tied the game in the sixth inning when AJ Kuzior doubled to lead off the frame and scored on Mike Biskup\u2019s RBI single.<\/p>\n
Marywood took its first lead in the seventh. Ginsberg worked a leadoff walk, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Joel Ayers, and scored on Kuzior\u2019s RBI single to make it 4-3.<\/p>\n
The Pacers\u2019 bullpen took over from there.<\/p>\n
Brett Kugler earned the win after escaping a bases-loaded situation in the sixth inning with a strikeout. Aidan Dolan and Austin Bausman each tossed scoreless innings before Isaac Galarza closed the door in the ninth to secure his second save of the season.<\/p>\n
Noah Trager started for Marywood and worked 5.1 innings, allowing three runs on 11 hits before turning the game over to the bullpen.<\/p>\n
Marywood (27-15) will face the winner of the No. 3 Immaculata and No. 2 Marymount matchup Friday at 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Lackawanna 7, Raritan Valley 3: Brant Barilaro pitched a complete game, scattering eight hits with six strikeouts as Lackawanna won to stay alive in the Region XIX Division II baseball tournament Thursday at Mercer County Park.<\/p>\n
Sean Moore had two hits and three RBIs while Danny Stickney had an RBI single and\u00a0Hunter Austra had an RBI double.<\/p>\n
The Falcons (21-27-1) will face Sussex County CC in an elimination game Friday at 10 a.m. at Mercer County Community College. The winner will meet host Mercer in the championship final at 2 p.m. and must win to force a deciding game, which would be played Saturday at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n
Sussex CC 7, Lackawanna 6: The Falcons fell behind, 6-1, in the third inning and despite rallying to get within one run, dropped the opener of the Region XIX Division II playoffs Thursday.<\/p>\n
Mark Zuppo had four hits, including two doubles, and four RBIS for the Falcons, while Stickney and Kolton Haifley each had two hits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marywood University rallied from a three-run, fifth-inning deficit to upset top-seeded Centenary University, 4-3, in the\u00a0opening game of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2300,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-186936","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\/186936","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=186936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}