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Pittsburgh, PA - The Mount Aloysius baseball team lost two games to AMCC foe LaRoche College on Friday. The Mounties fell in the first game by a score of 11-3 and then in the nightcap by a final of 11-5.

The Mounties threatened early in game one as they came out hot at the plate, but outs on the basepaths killed the rally. Jeremy Iellimo led off the game with a single to left. After the next batter was retired, Nicholas Belka grounded a ball up the middle that slid under the infielder. As Iellimo tried to stretch the play out and advance to third, he was thrown out becoming the second out. Belka would be picked off of first shortly after, killing the rally. 

Tristan Gelvin started for the Mounties, and battled through 3 and 2/3 innings. After getting out of a jam in the first inning, Gelvin was unable to pull of a second escape in his second inning of work, allowing three runs on two hits and two walks in the inning. He would run into trouble again in the 4th, allowing two more runs on three hits and two free passes.

Scott Schultz got the final out of the inning before more damage was done. The Mounties began a comeback in the 5th through the top of their lineup. Iellimo led off with a double to center field. He would score two batters later as Belka hit another ball up the middle that was charged as an error. After a Matthew McCourt walk and a wild pitch, TJ Wardwell hit a ground ball to second base to score the second run of the frame. After matching 1-2-3 innings in the bottom of the 5th and top of the 6th, LaRoche, ranked 21st in the nation, opened up the game by pushing six runs across and moving the game out of reach for Mount Aloysius. Wardwell singled in a final run in the 7th.

Wardwell and Iellimo led the Mounties at the plate in game two. Wardwell finished 2-for-3, knocking in two of the Mounties runs. Iellimo went 3-fo-4.

LaRoche started much quicker in game one/ The Redhawks scored the first eight runs of the game off of starter Andrew Shreiner, four of them being unearned. The Mounties cut the lead to six runs in the top of the 5th. Chase Miller doubled to the right center gap to start the inning. After an Iellimo walk and a Dalton Garlock sacrifice bunt, Belka drove in the first on an RBI ground out, and McCourt followed that up with an RBI double to right. The game would see the two teams split six runs in the final four innings of work.

The Mounties collected 12 hits in the second game, tallying two more than LaRoche. Belka and Joe Hudak would finish the game 2-for-5, and Dan Singer proved to be the offensive leader for Mount Aloysius, going 3-for-3 in the game.

Mount Aloysius falls to 6-20 on the year and 4-5 in AMCC play. The will hit the road again this weekend, traveling to St. Bonaventure, New York to face Alfred State University.