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Box Score 2 Pittsburgh, PA - The Mount Aloysius baseball team concluded their season in the AMCC playoffs on Saturday with a 14-4 loss to Pitt-Greensburg following an 11-0 defeat against Penn State Behrend on Friday. With the losses, the Mounties end their season with an overall record of 22-20.
In the opener against Behrend, the Lions used a three-run second inning to take an early lead over the Mounties. Mount Aloysius failed to get much going offensively for the ballgame as the Mounties registered just three hits.
Mountie starter
Derrick Capiak kept Mount Aloysius in the ballgame through five innings as the game remained 3-0 through five. However, the Lions expanded the lead against the Mounties with two runs in the sixth and two runs in the seventh to seize control at 7-0, and added four runs in the bottom of the eighth.
Capiak pitched 6 and 1/3 innings in the final start of his brilliant Mountie career, as the senior broke nearly every statistical pitching record in program history.
The Mounties then needed a win against Pitt-Greensburg on Saturday to keep their AMCC championship hopes alive. The game was competitive early as the two sides were deadlocked at 2-2 after three innings.
Benjamin Legath hit a solo home run for the Mounties in the second inning, and added an RBI on a sacrifice fly in the third.
Pitt-Greensburg notched six runs in the top of the fourth and added three more in the fifth inning to take an 11-2 advantage. Mount Aloysius got two runs back in the bottom of the fifth when
Connor Bowie singled home
Bryn Brown and
Ian Helsel to make it 11-4, but that would be as close as the Mounties would get in their comeback attempt.
Brown went 4-for-5 at the plate against Greensburg and Bowie was 3-for-5.
Cameron Kyle pitched a scoreless ninth inning in relief in his final pitching appearance in a Mountie uniform.
Legath and Gully were named to the AMCC All-Tournament Team.
The Mounties will say goodbye to Capiak, Kyle,
Cory Dick and
Patrick Gully. The four seniors were a part of four consecutive trips to the AMCC Final Four, 86 total victories and an AMCC Runner-Up finish in 2011.