Baseball Sweeps Philadelphia with 16-3 Victory

PHILADELPHIA, PA – The Merrimack baseball team swept Philadelphia Sunday earning a 16-3 victory to conclude a 13-game season-opening road trip.

Merrimack returns home with a 9-4 record and is scheduled to host Bentley Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. at Warrior Diamond.

The Warriors put this one away early scoring seven times in the first inning. After a leadoff double from Brendan Pyburn, Jeff Bercume drove him home with a single. After Bercume stole second, Andrew Johnson doubled the centerfielder home for the second run. Following a walk from Tim Curran, Mike Andre scored Johnson with a single. Ed Medeiros kept the inning alive by reaching on an error, scoring Andre and Curran, and P.J. Farnham ended the pitcher’s day with a run-scoring single. In his second at-bat of the inning, Pyburn delivered his second extra base hit of the day with a two-run triple for Merrimack’s sixth and seventh run.

Merrimack added three runs in the fourth and sixth inning, while tallying single runs in the second, seventh and eighth.

Andre finished with four hits in as many at-bats, while scoring three times and drove in two runs. Curran and Mike Dooling scored three times each, while Medeiros drove in three runs. Farnham added a pair of RBIs as six different Warriors had multiple hits in the win.

Dylan Ellis (2-1) earned the win, striking out nine in six innings of work. Mike Coppinger, Joe Connors, and Bill Humphrey each threw an inning to preserve the win.


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