ABERDEEN, Md. -- Over the weekend, the 2024 edition of the Mount Aloysius Baseball team took the field for the first time at the Ripken Experience in Aberdeen, Md., where they played four games. They opened Friday night against Swarthmore, before playing McDaniel and Montclair State on Saturday, and wrapping up with Keene State on Sunday.

In Friday's game against Swarthmore (2-0), the Mounties scored their first run of the season in the first inning on an two-out, RBI single from Zack Peck (Huntingdon, Pa. / Huntingdon). Unfortunately, the Mounties only picked up two more hits and gave up nine unanswered runs to the Garnet, leading to a 9-1 loss.

Mount Aloysius matched up with Montclair State (1-1), in their first game on Saturday. The Red Hawks came into the weekend receiving votes in the D3baseball.com national poll, just outside of the Top 25. Chris Hasse (Johnstown, Pa. / Westmont Hilltop) kept the Mounties in the game, tossing 7.0 quality innings, allowing just one earned run and five hits. For the second game in a row, the offense stalled, picking up five hits from three players and failing to score. The Mounties would fall, 4-0.

Against McDaniel (2-0), the Mounties took another 1-0 lead on a Peck RBI-single in the first inning. McDaniel answered with six runs in the bottom of the first inning and never looked back. They would out-score the Mounties 10-1 in the middle innings, before the Mounties added two in the top of the ninth, falling 10-4.

Mount Aloysius wrapped up the trip on Sunday against Keene State (2-1). The Owls grabbed an early lead on two Mountie miscues and opened up a 7-0 lead through the first 6.5 innings. The Mounties picked up two runs in the bottom of the eighth, but were unable to come the whole way back, dropping the contest, 7-2.

Tyler Quade (Mechanicsville, Md. / Chopticon), Peck, and Ryan Bushey (Latrobe, Pa. / Derry), all had five or more hits over the weekend, but accounted for 16 of the team's 22 hits, as the Mounties were outscored 30-7 for the weekend.

Mount Aloysius will head south again, this coming weekend, when they travel to Mary Baldwin for a three-game series with the Fightin' Squirrels.