Box Score Ryan Dorosh tossed a complete game shutout to lead the Misericordia University baseball team to an 8-0 victory over third-seeded Manhattanville College in the opening round of the Freedom Conference Championships on Thursday night at Owls Field in West Lawn, PA.
 
Dorosh went the distance, allowing just four hits while striking out four and walking just one.
 
Jeremy DeCotiis and D.J. Navoczynski led the Cougars' offense with two RBI each while Kyle Lindsay, Brian Eshleman and Miles Westrich drove in one run each.
 
The Cougars took the early lead with two runs in the bottom of the first and never gave it back. Lindsay roped an RBI single to left field and DeCotiis then scored on a double play ball off the bat of Navoczynski to cap the MU scoring in the first.
 
Westrich helped extend the lead with an RBI single and DeCotiis added an RBI single of his own to make it a 4-0 ballgame after four.
 
Navoczynski extended the Cougars' lead to 7-0 with a double down the right field line in the bottom of the sixth.
 
Eshleman then capped MU's big day at the plate with an RBI single in the eighth.
 
Dorosh capped his dominance on the mound by shutting the door on the Valiants with a perfect ninth to preserve the 8-0 victory.
 
The Cougars will now play Eastern Friday afternoon at 4. The Eagles beat top-seeded DeSales 11-10 in the opening game of the tournament.