The Misericordia University baseball team will host Delaware Valley for a doubleheader to open a best-of-three series in the first round of the MAC Freedom Championships, Saturday, May 1 at noon.
 
The Cougars are the top seed after finishing the regular season at 21-7 while Delaware Valley is the eighth.  Misericordia, the nine-time defending MAC Freedom champions, ended the regular season on a 12-game win streak.  The Cougars swept a four-game series from the Aggies during the regular season.
 
The "if necessary" game will be played at Delaware Valley tomorrow.
 
The series winner will face the winner between Arcadia/King's in next week's semifinal round.
 
Misericordia led the MAC Freedom in batting at .344 and was second in team ERA at 4.60.
 
Sean Boylan is second in the league in batting at .448 and in RBI (37).  Derrick Vosburg (.424) is third in the league in batting and Garrett McIlhenney (.393) is sixth. 
 
McIlhenney and Joe Liscio are second and third in the league in on-base percentage, respectively.
 
Tom Jacob and Brendan Gray are tied for second in the league with five wins.  David McCurry has four wins and second in the league with a 2.30 earned run average and Tyler Leonard is second in the league five saves.
 
Timmy Lallis leads Del Val in batting at .374 while Jonathan Drews is hitting .318.