Baseball Splits with Pace; Senior Day is Sunday

PLEASANTVILLE, NJ – The Merrimack baseball team concluded its road schedule with a doubleheader split with Pace Saturday afternoon, losing the first game 10-5, before winning the second 8-6.

The Setters put up three in the first inning, with the big hit a two-run blast from Joe Cotone. The Warriors rallied with single runs in the second, fourth and fifth to tie the game at three, before Setters regained the lead at 4-3 in the bottom of the fifth.

In the sixth, the visitors picked up a pair of unearned runs, getting two runs on just two hits, while taking advantage of a big fielding error. But Pace recovered, scoring three in the sixth on a pair of two-out run-scoring singles, while adding two in the seventh and one in the eighth to put the game away.

James Haughney (1-6) allowed seven runs in six innings, while taking the loss for the Warriors.

Brendan Pyburn, PJ Farhnam, Mike Coppinger, Mike Andre, and Mike Dooling each had two-hit performances for the Warriors.

In his final start of the season, lefty Dylan Ellis (5-3) hurled a complete-game, scattering 12 hits in the win.

The Warriors put up one in the first, on a Matt Hogan RBI single and three in the second, with Bercume driving in two runs with an RBI single. They stretched the lead to 8-1 after seven innings, before the Setters posted a five-spot in the eighth inning, but Ellis retired the side in order in the ninth to earn the win.

Farnham picked up a pair of RBIs, including a seventh-inning single, while Pyburn and Dooling also had RBIs.

Merrimack (19-27, 10-19 NE-10) concludes its season Sunday at 1 p.m. at home against Pace University with Senior Day festivities beginning at 12:40 p.m.