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Buffalo, NY - The Mount Aloysius baseball team split a doubleheader against AMCC for Medaille College on Monday. The Mounties fell in the first game 10-5 and won the second by a final score of 9-4.

Game one saw freshman pitcher Cole Funk start his first game for the Mounties. After getting out of trouble in the first, Funk would not be as lucky in the second. Medaille would put up nine of their 10 runs in the inning as they scratched out five hits and were aided by one error and five free passes from three different Mountie pitchers. Alex Arone was able to close the big inning for the Mounties and he went on to keep Medaille at bay for two more innings, allowing one run on two hits and three walks. Creek Miller also had an effective outing out of the bullpen, pitching two scoreless innings allowing one hit and one walk.

Offensively the Mounties collected six hits to score their five runs, but were unable to put together any big innings to match the nine-run frame for Medaille. Joe Hudak, Nicholas Belka and Daniel Singer all had RBI singles in the game. Belka was the lone Mount Aloysius hitter to collect more than one hit.

Freshman Dylan Coyle took the mound for game two and put in his strongest performance as a Mountie. Coyle went the distance for his first career complete game. Coyle scattered 12 hits over the nine innings, allowing four runs, three of them earned. The performance was the first Mount Aloysius nine-inning complete game since 2013.

After a quiet game one, shortstop Matthew McCourt broke out in the second game. He started the scoring for the Mounties in the third inning with a run-scoring single. An inning later, he came to the plate with bases loaded and did not disappoint. McCourt drove a pitch to deep left field to clear the bases for a Grand Slam home run. He was intentionally walked in his next at-bat and collected one more hit in his final at bat in the game. He finished 3-for-4 with the home run, two runs scored and five runs batted in. 

McCourt wasn't the only Mountie to have success with the bat in game two. Centerfielder Daniel Singer collected three hits out of the leadoff spot, and seniors Chase Miller and Patrick Jobes each collected two hits towards the bottom of the order. Belka reached base five times in the game, collecting two hits and drawing three walks.

After the split, the Mounties record sits at 10-25 with a conference record of 7-10. They will host Pitt-Bradford tomorrow in their final game of the regular season. The single game was postponed after heavy fog made the second game of the conference doubleheader unplayable. It will be a nine-inning contest starting at 3:30.