Baseball 2-2 after First Road Trip; Splits with Eckerd Sunday

Game 1 Box / Game 2 Box

ST. PETERSBURG, FL – After losing the first game 4-3 to Eckerd, the Merrimack baseball team rallied back for a 9-1 victory in game two.

The Warriors (2-2) earned a very respectable two wins in their first four games in their first Florida trip of the season. They return to Florida, this time to Palm Beach, to take on St. Thomas Aquinas at 7 p.m. on March 14 in the first of seven games in five days.

In the first game, 3B Mike Andre (Medford, MA) started the scoring with a two-run homer in the top of the third. CF Jeff Bercume (Leicester, MA) jumpstarted the rally, as he drilled a one-out single to right-center, and with two outs, Andre lined one over the right-field wall to give the Warriors the 2-0 lead.

But Eckerd responded with three runs in its half of the third off Merrimack starter Chris Caron (Londonderry, NH) as the right-hander surrendered four straight hits and five in all before retiring the side. Eckerd tacked on a big insurance run in the sixth off a Warrior fielding error.

Down 4-2 in their last at-bats in the seventh, the Warriors had runners at the corners with no one out after 2B Brendan Pyburn (Peabody, MA) doubled down the left-field line and C Bob McCarthy (Chelmsford, MA) reached on an infield single. Bercume then grounded to second, scoring Pyburn, and moving McCarthy to second. But 1B Matt Hogan (Andover, MA) and Andre both flew out to right, ending the threat and the game for the Warriors.

Caron (0-1) struck out four in 5.1 innings, while allowing four runs (three earned).

In the second, Dylan Ellis (Gloucester, MA) hurled five shutout innings and struck out four, earning the win for Merrimack.

Merrimack struck for a run in each of the first two innings and two in the third, before blowing it open with five in the sixth. Hogan drove in four runs to lead the visitors to victory.

In the third, Hogan lined a two-out single which brought RF PJ Farnham (Andover, MA) and Pyburn in to score. Then, in the fifth, four Warriors reached without a hit before Bercume singled up the middle to score Farnham. Hogan put the game away with a two-run double to left to score McCarthy and Bercume.

The Warriors stole five bases, including three from Farnham.

In the four-game weekend in Florida, Bercume led the Warriors with a .545 average (6-for-11) and drove home five runs, while Pyburn hit .462 and scored six runs.


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