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Holy Family University Athletics
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A closeup of Kaden Mannis, who is holding his right hand out as he prepares to catch a ball
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Holy Family HFU 2-6
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Winner Mercy MERCY 9-8
Holy Family HFU
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Final
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Mercy MERCY
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Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Holy Family HFU 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 4 9 1
Mercy MERCY 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 X 5 8 1

W: R. Ehret (1-0) L: Kraiza, Hunter (0-1) S: W. Sullo (1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Suffers One-Run Loss at Mercy

DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. – The Holy Family University baseball team had the tying run in scoring position and the potential go-ahead run at the plate, but Mercy was able to escape with a 4-5 win over the Tigers on Tuesday. 
 
Trailing 3-5 after two unearned runs in the eighth, Jalen David (Bronx, N.Y./St. Raymond) got a potential comeback started with a leadoff walk. He then stole two bases and following a Jephson Hadson-Taylor (Cheltenham, Pa./La Salle College (University of Maine)) walk and pitching change, came home on Dalton Turner's (Langhorne, Pa./Neshaminy (Bucks County CC)) RBI groundout. 
 
With Hadson-Taylor, who had stolen second himself, in scoring position, the Mavericks were able to get the final out. 
 
Individual Highlights
  • Brian Comer (Charlotte, N.C./Independence (Bucks County CC)), Marc Garcia (Coatesville, Pa./Coatesville Area Senior (Keystone College)), Garrison Pregulman (Scottsdale, Ariz./Chaparral (Los Angelas Pierce College)) and Kaden Mannis (Algonquin, Ill./Dundee-Crown (Morton College)) all had two hits
    • Mannis' two-hit performances was the first of his HFU career, highlighted by a two-RBI single in a three-run fourth
    • Garcia also drew a base on balls and scored, while Pregulman scored once and drove in another
  • Starter Brian Williams (Glenside, Pa./Roman Catholic (Bucks County CC)) retired 13 of the final 15 he faced to finish with a line of two runs allowed on five hits, with five strikeouts against one base on balls, over five innings
  • Hunter Kraiza (Havertown, Pa./Haverford (Cabrini University)) did not surrender a hit in his 1.1 relief innings
 
How it Happened
  • HFU erased Mercy's two-run first with the three-run fourth that featured back-to-back two-out RBI singles by Pregulman and Mannis, after Garcia and Stefan Leo (Golden, Colo./Golden Senior (Porterville CC)) had drawn back-to-back walks with one away
  • The Tigers had multiple runners reach in both the fifth and sixth, with a potential fourth run cut down at the plate on a double steal in the latter, and Mercy carried that momentum in to the bottom-half to tie the score at 3-3
  • Holy Family then loaded the bases in the seventh, but the threat was ended on an inning-ending double play
  • The Tigers returned the favor in the bottom half as David recorded an outfield assist for the fourth game in a row to keep the score tied
  • The Mavericks took advantage of error that extended the eighth though, allowing them to plate the go-ahead and game-winning runs
 
Up Next
Holy Family begins Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) on Friday, traveling to Chestnut Hill for a 12 p.m. doubleheader. 
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