The Misericordia University baseball out-slugged the University of Scranton, 28-14, Wednesday at Connell Park.

Jamie Philippi was six-for-six with three doubles and Mike Impellittiere hit his first collegiate home run.

Nate Hamlin had four doubles and Andrew Tressa added four hits and Nick Morreale had three hits.

Nate Newman had a double, triple and homer and drove in five runs and Jeff Slanovec had three hits.

Kenny Durling had two hits, including a homer, and Anthony Goncalves and Brian Verdelli added two hits each.

Every player in the MU line-up had a hit as the Cougars pounded out 34 hits, including 17 extra-base hits.

Andrew Yasinski worked seven innings of relief to pick up the win.

The Cougars took a 4-0 lead in the top of first on back-to-back doubles by Hamlin and Andres Gonzalez and back-to-back homers by Newman and Durling.

After Scranton responded with nine runs in the bottom of the first, the Cougars got one back in the second.

Verdelli and Morreale singled and Verdelli eventually scored on Gonzalez sacrifice fly to right.

The Cougars regained the lead with a seven-run third. After singles by Tressa and Philippi, Verdelli ripped a two-run triple and Slanovec followed with an RBI-double. Morreale drove in a run with a single and Hamlin doubled before Gonzalez was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Newman plated two runs with a triple.

The Cougars made it 17-10 with five runs in the fifth. Durling and Tressa walked in front RBI-singles by Philippi and Slanovec. Chris Tuttle added an RBI and two more runs scored on errors.

After Scranton got within 17-12 in the seventh, the Cougars erupted for 11 runs in what turned out to the final inning as the game was halted after eight innings due to darkness.

Impellittiere's two-run homer highlighted the inning along with RBI-doubles by Zach Myers, Tuttle and Newman.

The Cougars, 13-8, visit FDU-Florham, Friday.