Box Score

SCRANTON, Pa.- The Mighty Mac baseball team (13-4) improved to 8-1 in Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) play on Sunday afternoon as they took two of three from Marywood (7-12, 4-5 CSAC) by winning the series finale, 9-4, in the team's first true road game of the season.  The teams split the doubleheader on Saturday afternoon at IU.
 
Junior Eddie Decker (4-0) continued his outstanding season as he tied the program record and punched out a career-high 11 Pacers while going seven innings, allowing six hits and two earned runs.
 
Senior right fielder Dom Ficca had a big day at the plate with three hits, three RBIs, a double, and a run scored.  Senior centerfielder Jason McCormick (2 R, 2 BB), senior designated hitter Howie Kalamets (2 RBI, 2 R, HR), and senior first baseman Ryan Tecco (R, RBI, 2B) each had two hits as the Macs pulled away late.
 
The Macs started the scoring as McCormick singled and moved to second on a single by Kalamets.  Following a double play, McCormick scored on a wild pitch to put the Macs on top.  Junior third baseman Justin Dempsey (1-for-3, 2 R, BB) walked with two outs and following another walk, a fielding error by the Pacers allowed Dempsey to score and make it 2-0 midway through the first.
 
Marywood scored an unearned run in the bottom of the frame, but a two-out, two-run home run by Kalamets, the eighth of his career, in the top of the second made it 4-1.  Marywood again responded to trim the deficit to 4-2.
 
The score would hold at 4-2 until the fifth when the Macs took advantage of an error that allowed Dempsey to reach, and Dom Ficca brought him home with an RBI single to right center field to extend the lead to 5-2.
 
Decker allowed a run in the fifth, but he settled down and worked around a single in the sixth and an error in the seventh to hand the ball to the bullpen with a 5-3 lead.
 
Sophomore Billy Manzo came in and kept the two run lead heading to the ninth despite allowing a walk and a single.
 
In the ninth, the Macs took advantage of a Marywood error to get the inning started and scored four unearned runs to give Manzo some cushion.  Tecco hit an RBI double down the left field line, Dom Ficca followed with a two-run double to center, and junior second baseman Pat Devenney hit an RBI single to right-center to swell the advantage to 9-3.
 
Manzo allowed a run in the ninth, but held on for the first save of his career.
 
The Mighty Macs will open a series with Cairn on Wednesday with a single game at IU at 3 p.m.