IMMACULATA,Pa.-  The Immaculata baseball team secured their spot in the Atlantic East Conference Tournament championship with their 9-2 victory over Cabrini on Friday afternoon.
 
Ryan Crowell picked up his eighth victory of the season, with a strong performance to stifle the high-powered Cavalier offense. Stephen DiBatista and Trevor Wagner were excellent in relief, combining for three innings of no-hit baseball.
 
Immaculata used a strong bottom half of the first inning, with Joey Sacco getting the party started with a two-run single, driving in Frank Margiotta and Joey Wright. Ryan Struble would then lace a double into the right center gap to plate Sacco and Steven Theisen to give the Macs a 4-0 lead. The rally would not end there, as Maddox Stern would deliver a two run single up the middle to bring home Struble and Justin Klemick.
 
Cabrini would add one run back in the 2^nd on a Brady Campbell single to left field to drive home Ben Houghton and cut the Mighty Macs lead to five.
 
Robert Woodward would get the Macs offense back on track with a single down the left field line in the 3^rd inning to bring home Jay Lawrence. Margiotta would single in the inning to drive in Klemick to extend the lead to 8-1.
 
Cabrini would add another run on an infield single from Colton Narciso to plate Ryan Dipper in the 6^th to cut into the lead.  
 
Joey Wright would further extend their lead to 9-2 in the seventh inning with a single to score Woodward.
 
The Immaculata baseball team will be back in action on Saturday, May 13^th for a 11:00 AM start time at the Immaculata Baseball Stadium in the Atlantic East Championship against the winner of this afternoon's game five contest between Neumann University and Cabrini University.