ASTON, PA. -- The Gwynedd Mercy University Baseball team won a pair of Colonial States Athletic Conference games at Neumann Saturday afternoon to open up CSAC action. The Griffins took game one, 16-2, and won the nightcap, 10-4, to win their fifth game in a row. The team totaled 27 hits with 14 extra-base hits.
Dave Tatoian had quite the day, going 7-for-8 with eight RBIs, five runs scored, three doubles, and three home runs in the two contests.
GMercyU scored 16 runs on 17 hits in the opening game of the series. They plated six runs in the second, seven runs in the third and three in the fourth. Dave Tatoian was 4-for-4 with five RBIs and three runs scored. Both Justin Curtin and Josh Lopez were 3-for-4 with a pair of RBIs and runs scored while Ryan Keen and Derek Whitfield added a pair of hits.
The Griffins struck first when Whitfield reached on a single and scored Tatoian on a throwing error. RBI doubles from Lopez, Curtin and Keen helped break the game open to a 6-0 score.
In the third, Jason Mulvey scored on a balk followed by a Curtin single, Tatoian double and a Shaughn Wright three-run homerun for a 13-0 lead. Neumann would answer in the bottom of the third with a run back on an Eric Bergman sac fly.
Tatoian would answer in the fourth, with a three-run home run to score Keen and Iziah Trimble. Neumann would score their second run in the fifth on a wild pitch.
Starter Nick DeRitis worked a complete game just giving up one earned run while striking out three batters.
In game two, starter Mike Di Ianni worked six and two thirds innings striking out 11 Neumann batters to reach 109 strikeouts for his career, becoming the ninth hurler in school history to reach triple-digit K's.
The Griffins kept the bats going, scoring three runs in the top of the second. A Keen single scored Lopez for the early lead followed by a Trimble single to plate Tommy Nardini.
Tatoian hit his second homerun on the day in the third a solo shot for the 4-0 lead.
The Griffins would add a pair of runs in the fifth before four more in the sixth on RBIs from Trimble, Jason Mulvey, Curtin and another Tatoian solo homerun for his third longball on the day. Bergman would hit a three-run homerun in the seventh for the Knights, but Sachael Sciarretta would induce a fly-ball for the 10-4 Griffin victory.
Tatoian finished game two 3-for-4 with three RBIs and a pair of runs scored. Jason Mulvey and Trimble added a pair of hits.
The Griffins return back to action tomorrow when they will travel to Neumann as the home team for a first pitch scheduled for 1 p.m.