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Box Score 2 ARLINGTON, Va. - Marymount baseball junior Conner Hall went 7-for-9 with four doubles, a home run and seven RBIs as the Saints won both games of a CAC doubleheader versus St. Mary's (MD) at Bishop O'Connell High School Saturday, 13-0 and 15-3.
Marymount (11-10, 4-2 CAC) has scored 54 runs in six conference contests this season for an average of 9.0 per game.
Junior Luke Tyree also drove in seven RBIs on Saturday, highlighted by his second grand slam of the season in game one, while junior Cal Berman went 6-for-7 with two doubles, a home run, two RBIs and five runs scored.
Game 1: Marymount 13, St. Mary's 0
Led by the pitching of senior Dylan Gerdts, the Saints got all the runs they would need in the bottom of the second when they scored twice on an RBI ground out by junior Nick Smutko and and RBI-single by freshman James DiGiulian.
Senior Kaden Darrow led off the bottom of the third with his first home run of the season before Hall added an RBI-single in the bottom of the fifth to increase the Marymount lead to 4-0.
The Saints would tack on four runs in the sixth and four in the seventh to take a 12-0 lead. After senior Javier Herrera led off the sixth with a single up the middle, the next three Marymount batters all laid down bunts with two reaching safely, including DiGiulian who picked up his second RBI of the game. Hall capped the inning with an RBI-double to left center that scored Tyree.
In the seventh, Tyree drove in all four runs with a grand slam to right center.
Meanwhile, Gerdts was cruising on the mound, totaling seven scoreless innings while scattering four hits and striking out seven. Senior Sean O'Connell pitched a scoreless eighth and struck out two while freshman Drew Mead struck out two of the three batters he faced in the ninth.
Tyree went 1-for-5 with five RBIs and two runs while Hall and DiGiulian each had two hits and two RBIs. Berman was 3-for-3 with three runs scored.
The win was the Saints' second by shutout this season.
Game 2: Marymount 15, St. Mary's 3
After the Seahawks jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first, Marymount answered with two runs in the bottom of the inning on RBI singles by Hall and Herrera.
Neither team would score again until the fifth when the Saints scored five runs on an RBI-double by Hall, sacrifice bunt by Herrera and a two-run homer to left by Berman.
Marymount added two more runs in the sixth on a two-run homer to left center by Hall and plated another five in the seventh. Freshman Gavin Canipe started the scoring with an RBI-double to left center and Tyree followed with a two-run double down the right field line. Hall also had an RBI-double in the inning before freshman Casey Baker scored Darrow with an RBI ground out.
Freshman Bryan Harris capped the scoring in the bottom of the eighth with an RBI-single that scored Herrera.
On the mound, freshman Ryan Bergenhagen earned the win, allowing eight hits and just one earned run over six innings while striking out seven. Junior Patrick Berthelette picked up a save after allowing just one run on four hits over the final three innings.
Hall finished 5-for-5 with five RBIs and two runs scored. He was one of seven Saints who drove in at least one run and one of four who had at least two hits and two RBIs. Herrera and Berman each went 3-for-4 with two runs and two RBIs while Tyree was 2-for-5 with two runs and two RBIs.
The Saints host a nine-inning, nonconference contest with Hampden-Sydney on Monday beginning at 1 p.m.