Baseball Splits with St. Leo’s Saturday

Game 1 Box / Game 2 Box

SAINT LEO, FL – The Merrimack baseball team opened the 2009 season with a 4-1 win over St. Leo’s University in game one of a doubleheader

The Lions recovered in the second game defeating the Warriors 23-2.

In his first career outing on the hill, starting pitcher Chris Pinette (Norwood, MA) scattered five hits in 7.1 innings, allowing just one run while striking out two to earn his first collegiate win.

The Warriors wasted no time as CF Jeff Bercume (Leicester, MA) ripped a one-out double to left-center which plated 2B Brendan Pyburn (Peabody, MA), who started the Warriors’ season with a single through the right side.

Merrimack tacked on two more in the sixth as LF P.J. Farnham (Andover, MA) started the inning with a single, his first collegiate hit. He went to second on a Pyburn single and scored on a throwing error off a grounder from C Bob McCarthy (Chelmsford, MA). Bercume then followed with a sacrifice fly to center to score Pyburn with his second RBI of the game.

Designated hitter Ed Medeiros (Seekonk, MA) made it 4-0 in the seventh as he hit a one-out single, his first as a Warrior, to center to bring home Andrew Johnson (East Greenwich, RI), who led off the inning with a double to left-center for his first collegiate hit.

The Lions finally got to Pinette in the seventh as a sacrifice fly plated Jonathan Duncan who led off the inning with a triple. But Pinette limited the damage and escaped the seventh without any further problems.

Ryan McNeil (Lynnfield, MA) relieved Pinette in the eighth with one on and one out and induced a fly out from cleanup hitter Jovanni Fiallo, while McCarthy threw out the runner on first to end the eighth. McNeil retired the side in order in the ninth for the save.

In the second game, St. Leo’s jumped on the Warriors for 15 runs in the first three innings en route to the 23-2 rout. Bercume drove home Pyburn in the first inning for his third RBI of the day while freshman Bill Cataldo (Reading, MA) plated classmate Pat Charette (Carver, MA) in the seventh. Mike Riley (Medford, MA) took the loss on the hill as the freshman allowed eight runs (six earned) in one inning.

Duncan drove home five runs for the Lions and went deep for one of his three hits. Six different players drove in more than one run in the victory for St. Leo’s.

Merrimack (1-1) takes on Eckerd College Sunday in a twin-bill with first pitch of game one beginning at 1 p.m.


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