Baseball Concludes Season with 6-3 Win over Pace

NORTH ANDOVER, MA – The Merrimack baseball team won its 20th game of the season Sunday, defeating Pace 6-3 on Senior Day at Warrior Field.

The Warriors finish their season 20-27 overall, 11-19 in the Northeast-10.

Before the game, Merrimack honored its four-member class of 2009, Jeff Bercume, Mike Andre, Bob McCarthy, and Mike Coppinger as part of Senior Day. Bercume concludes his career with 230 hits, the most in school history.

In their final game, the four seniors combined for seven of Merrimack’s nine hits, three from McCarthy and two from Andre.

Merrimack picked up a pair of runs in the first on an RBI groundout from Matt Hogan and on a Pace fielding error that scored Bercume.

They added three more in the fourth as Bob McCarthy reached on a fielder’s choice which scored Andre. PJ Farnham then followed with an RBI groundout to plate Mike Dooling, while Brendan Pyburn brought home the fifth run of the game with a sacrifice fly to score Andrew Johnson. Bercume made it 6-1 in the seventh as the center fielder led off the seventh with a triple and scored on a wild pitch.

Chris Pinette (4-6) picked up his second win in his second straight start, striking out four while scattering eight hits over eight innings. Ryan McNeil concluded the season with his 67th inning of the season in his 23rd appearance. The junior finishes with six wins, three complete games and four saves.

The Warriors finished the season with four wins in their final six games, while taking two of three in the series with the Setters.