WASHINGTON, D.C. – A six-run fifth inning highlighted a 10-hit game for the Marymount (Va.) University baseball team, as it coasted past Hood College, 12-2, in the programs' first meeting on Monday afternoon at the Nationals Youth Baseball Academy. 

Eight different Saints registered hits in the game including two apiece by juniors Ben Berczek and Brandon Orbe, while several of them crossed home plate more than once. Junior Brandon Savage played a big role in that, knocking in three RBI for the contest of a two-RBI single in the fifth inning and a sacrifice fly in the seventh. 

The Blazers jumped on starting pitcher Sean O'Connell in the opening two innings, bringing across the first runner of the game in the top of the second for a 1-0 advantage. But O'Connell started to settle in following the run, working out of the jam when a Hood batter grounded into a double play. The sophomore right-hander continued to deal into the third inning, striking out two of his four total in the four innings pitched. 

In the bottom half of the third, the Saints drew the score even after a bulk by the pitcher brought home sophomore Kaden Darrow. 

The fifth inning is when Marymount heated up on the offensive end, passing six runners over home plate to take a comfortable 7-2 lead over the Blazers to put the game away. 

Freshman Austin Sizemore opened the inning up with a double down the left field line, rolling all the way back to the fence. In an attempt to advance Sizemore to third, junior Lorenzo Calderon laid down a bunt, but would reach and advance to second on a throwing error by the pitcher to first base. On the error, Sizemore scored to give the blue and white a lead it wouldn't surrender. 

The next batter, freshman Luke Tyree, reached the same way Calderon did, following a bunt and a throwing error by the pitcher. Tyree eventually stole second before Berczek singled to shortstop to bring home Calderon, and a throwing error by he shortstop brought Tyree home. Savage stepped into the box several batters later to knock his 2-RBI single before he crossed home plate himself after another balk by the pitcher to cap off a six-run inning. 

The Saints tacked on two more runs in the seventh, as Savage brought freshman Michael Wade home on a sacrifice fly to center field, and Darrow slid past the glove of the catcher for his second run of the day on a passed ball. 

The final three runs of the game came across in the eighth when junior Roy Coates brought home Tyree on a grounder to the shortstop and Wade came up on the next at-bat to blast the team's first homerun of the season and first of his collegiate career over the left-field fence for two RBI. 

Junior Jake Kniatt came in for the top of the ninth to seal up the victory, not allowing a hit with a groundout to shortstop, a fly out to center field and a foul out to left field. 

Junior Scott Robison earned the win on the mount, coming in for O'Connell in the fifth. Freshman Patrick Berthelette relieved Robison in the sixth to give up just two hits in 2.2 innings of work. 

The men are back in action on Wednesday, February 24 as they take another trip into the nation's capital for a matchup with Gallaudet University. First pitch is set for 2 p.m.