Battle at the Rock

This weekend was a rough one for the baseball team after splitting our 4 game series against Slippery Rock University. Friday afternoon we came to swing the bats and scored 10 runs in the first inning of play. With great pitching Slippery Rock had no chance to beat us. We ended the day Friday with thirty or more hits and twenty runs in the 2 games played. On Saturday Slippery Rock came to Mercyhurst to play 2 more games to round off the weekend and they came to scrap. Our pitching staff really held us in the game and gave us a chance to score runs, but the bats fell asleep and we found it hard to produce any runs. The Rock beat us in both of the games we played saturday and they were both really emotional losses. It hurts us in the run to win the western division of the PSAC conference. We will have to focus on squaring the ball up and driving it back up the middle and going to the opposite field this week. We need to win our series this weekend as well in order to keep our playoff goals alive.