FORT PIERCE, Fla. – Marywood jumped out to a 16-6 lead after the top of the seventh inning and withstood a late charge from Washington College to come away with a 17-15 win on Thursday in a non-conference baseball game at the Lawnwood Complex. The Pacers improve to 5-4 with the win, while the Shoremen slip to 7-5.

Marywood (5-4) 17 Washington College (7-5) 15

How It Happened
- The Pacers scored six times in the top of the first to take the lead for the remainder of the game with four of the six being unearned runs. Marywood scored the game's opening run on an error and made it 2-0 on a bases loaded walk with one out. Marywood got the rest of its runs in the frame on a bases loaded walk, two-run single and with two away a base hit.
- Washington got on the board with two in the bottom of the fourth. Chase Ruppel singled in Brett Connolly on a hit to right with nobody out for the first run and with one away, Brady Wozniak plated Drew Kinsey on a sacrifice fly to left to trim it to 6-2 after four.
- In the bottom of the fifth, Washington cut the lead to 6-5 as three came home with two outs. Connolly tripled to right to score Wyatt Uhde and then scored on the same play courtesy of an error by the Pacers to trim the lead to 6-4. After Dino DiMauro reached via by a hit by pitch, Ruppel tripled to right-center to score DiMauro and it was a one-run game.
- Marywood got a two-run homer in the top of the sixth to left with two away to make it 8-5 before Kokinis got one back on a tater to left with two away to trim the lead to 8-6.
- The Pacers took advantage of an error by the Shoremen in the top of the seventh to score six unearned runs as part of an eight-run top of the seventh to lead 16-6. The eight-run outburst was capped by a base hit with two outs as five of the eight came after two were retired.
- In the bottom half of the seventh, WC scored four two-out runs to cut the lead to 16-10 after seven as Uhde capped the run scoring on a run-scoring base hit to right to plate Everitt as the Shoremen took advantage of a Pacers' error for three unearned runs.
- After Marywood took a 17-10 lead on a RBI single with nobody out in the top of the eighth, Washington got four runs to chip the lead down to three, 17-14. Kokinis singled in Everitt on a hit to right to cut it to three and got the tying run to the plate, but a strike out ended the threat.
- Connolly led off the last of the ninth with a long ball to right, but the Pacers got the next three Shoremen to fly out twice and a game-ending pop out for the final three outs.

For The Shoremen (7-5)
- Hitting: Connolly (4-for-6, four runs, two RBI, home run), Kokinis (2-for-4, two RBI, home run), Ruppel (2-for-5, two RBI, walk), Wozniak (three RBI), DiMauro (three runs), Everitt (two runs, two RBI)
- Pitching: Aiden Moore (loss 0-2, 2/3 innings, two hits, six runs, two earned, three walks, one strikeout)
- Washington had 14 hits, walked three times walks and had six reach via hit by pitch while leaving seven on base.
- The Shoremen had two errors in the game, leading to 10 unearned runs for Marywood.

Notes
- Connolly hit for the cycle in the game getting one single, double, triple and home run in the game.

Up Next
3/13 v. Heidelberg – 10:00 a.m. (Fort Pierce, Fla. – Non-Conference Game)
- Sunday's suspended game will be completed prior to the regularly scheduled game. Heidelberg led 17-8 after six innings before the game was suspended due to lightning.