Senior pitcher Dustin Pease once again had a strong start to lead Mount St. Mary's to a 5-4 win at George Mason on Tuesday afternoon. Pease allowed three runs in eight and two-thirds innings to improve to 2-2 on the season.

Pease pitched a complete-game win over Mason in 2004, struck out five in two innings in 2005 and took a shutout into the sixth on Tuesday before finishing with three earned runs allowed with one walk and five strikeouts. Pease surrendered 13 hits but pitched out of four bases-loaded jams, allowing just one run, in those jams.

The Mount jumped to a 4-0 lead with single runs in the second, fourth, fifth and sixth innings. In the second, Matt Eiden's single plated Ryan Murray with the game's first run. In the fourth, Mike Gioioso's squeeze bunt scored Eiden to give the Mount a 2-0 advantage. The Mount's run in the fifth came on a double play while Eric Smith's sacrifice fly in the sixth gave the Mount its 4-0 advantage.

After a Jason Bour RBI single got George Mason (7-7) on the scoreboard, Murray scored on a wild pitch in the top of the seventh to give the Mount a 5-1 advantage. Brent Weiss added an RBI single in the bottom of the seventh for the Patriots to cut the Mount's lead to 5-2.

George Mason rallied with a pair of runs in the ninth, but came up short. Mark Hill led off with a single but he was erased when Dan Palumbo reached on a fielder's choice. Weiss' single put runners on the corners and Chris Fournier's bloop into shallow center made it 5-3 with runners on first and second. Scott Krieger then singled to load the bases. Justin Bour then grounded back to the pitcher but a throwing error by the catcher in an attempt to complete a 1-2-3 double play kept the inning alive and made it 5-4. But Josh Steinberg, batting for the first time after replacing Jason Bour who left the game after being hit by a pitch in the eighth, flew out to left to end the game.

Murray went 4-for-5 with two runs scored to pace the Mount offense while Eiden finished the game 2-for-4 at the plate. Costa Kapothanasis came on to get the final out in relief of Pease to earn his first collegiate save.

The Mount returns to action tomorrow at Navy.