The Misericordia University baseball team dropped the opening game of the MAC Freedom championship series, 6-2, Friday at Arcadia.

Derrick Vosburg, Brendan Gray, Joe Comins and Jack Regenye all had two hits for the Cougars.

Down 2-0, the Cougars cut the deficit in half in the sixth.  Vosburg singled up the middle and advanced on a wild pitch and came home on Gray's single to left center.

The Knights answered with four runs in the bottom of the inning to take a 6-1 lead.

The Cougars got a run back in the top of the ninth.  Regenye led off with an infield single and moved to second on Garrett McIlhenney's single up the middle.  Regenye scored on a fielder's choice and
Madden singled up the middle to put runners on the corners.  But MU the runners there with the potential tying-run on deck.

The teams will meet again Saturday at noon with the 'if necessary' game to follow.