Box Score For the second straight year, the Manhattanville College baseball team stunned top-seeded Misericordia University with a 2-1, 10-inning win in the opening game of the Freedom Conference championships, Friday afternoon at Memorial Park in Quakertown.

The Valiants scored on a sacrifice fly in the top of the 10th inning to make a winner of Alex Basso who allowed just four hits over 9.1 innings.

Joe Palmeri got the final two outs to earn the save.

Freedom Rookie of the Year Jordanis Nunez paced the Valiants attack with three hits while John Bucci and Nick Euvino both had two hits.

Misericordia's Evan Robaczewski scattered six hits over 5.2 innings and Justin Haddix tossed three scoreless innings of relief.

Cory Vogeli came on in the 10th and absorbed the loss.

After Misericordia tied the score with a two-out run in the bottom of the ninth, Hans Arias led off the top of the 10th with a single inside the right field line and moved to second on a bunt single by Nunez.  After a sacrifice bunt, Sean Ferguson was issued an intentional walk to load the bases.  MU's Taylor Zackman made a diving catch on Bobby Guerra's fly ball in foul territory down the right field line, but Arias raced home with the winning run.

Misericordia threatened in the bottom of the frame when Kyle Lindsay grounded through the middle and stretched into a double with one out, but Palmeri came on to induce a fly out and a grounder in front of the plate to end the game.

Manhattanville went ahead in the third when Nunez reached on a one-out single through box, stole second and came home on Ferguson's one-hop double off the wall in left.

Basso kept the Cougars off the board until the bottom of the ninth when Durling coaxed a lead-off walk and moved to second on Zackman's pinch-hit sacrifice bunt. 

After moving to third on a ground out, Durling scored the game-tying run when a diving Joe Tagliarini avoided the tag at first base on the potential game-ending out.

Down 1-0, the Cougars threatened in the fifth when Tagliarini worked a lead-off walk and moved to second on Connor Moriarty's sacrifice bunt.  Lindsay dropped a single into short right field but a charging Ferguson threw Tagliarini out at home thanks to a diving tag by Johnny LoVetere.

The Valiants had a chance to tack on an insurance run in the top of the sixth, Bobby Guerra was out at home attempting to score on a wild pitch.

Manhattanville improved to 14-27 and will face the DeSales/FDU-Florham winner, Saturday afternoon.  Misericordia, 32-9, will play Saturday at 11:00 a.m.