April 9 2011:  Andres Gonzalez' squeeze bunt in the eighth inning scored Andrew Tressa and gave the Misericordia University baseball team a sweep over Manhattanville as the Cougars won 5-3 and 2-1, at Roosevelt Field in Swoyersville.

Manhattanville had scored on their final out in the seventh to extend the second game and rob sophomore starter Mike Pena (6 IP, 3 hits, 0 runs) of the decision. But Tressa soon led off the bottom of the eighth with a double and barely beat the tag on Gonzalez' bunt to score the walk-off run.

Misericordia had taken a 1-0 lead in bottom of the sixth, when Nate Newman's sacrifice fly scored freshman Frank Santarsiero.

While the Cougar bats were silent for much of the contest, MU's defense came up big on multiple occasions. Pena picked off a man in the fourth inning, and Matthew Karabin repeated the feat in top of the eighth with a man on second. In the first, rookies Joe Tagliarini and Ryan Cacchioli combined for a nice 3-6-3 double play.

Santarsiero had scored the winning run in game one, scampering home on a throwing error after Tagliarini's infield single. Cacchioli then knocked in Gonzalez for an insurance run and a 5-3 lead.

Karabin closed out the contest to earn his fourth save of the year, while fellow sophomore Pete Doggett (3-0) earned the win. Starter William Minderjahn (4.1 IP, one run, four Ks), another sophomore, pitched well but didn't earn the decision.

Cacchioli was 3-for-4 with an RBI while Tagliarini went 2-for-3 and scored a run.

The Cougars had taken the lead with three runs in the bottom of the third. Nate Hamlin doubled in Tagliarini and Kenny Durling's double soon brought him home. In between, Tressa knocked in Cacchioli for the second run.

Manhattanville fought back, tying the game on a two-run homer to left field in the top of the fifth. The score was knotted at 3-3 until MU's rally in the bottom of the sixth.

Misericordia has now won six straight Freedom Conference games and is 15-5, 6-1.