No. 6 MOUNT ST. MARY'S vs. No. 7 Marist
Tuesday, May 20^th
3:00 P.M.
Pomona, N.Y. | Clover Stadium

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EMMITSBURG, Md. (May 19, 2025) – Mount St. Mary's baseball begins the road to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championship Playoffs with their first-round match up against Marist on Tuesday afternoon. With their 7-6 walk-off win against Manhattan, the Mountaineers finished their 2025 MAAC season off with a 15-13 record and an overall record of 23-27, good enough to grab the No. 6 seed in the conference tournament. Th game between the Mountaineers and the Red Foxes will be a single elimination game to see who gets to move onto the double elimination round.

MOUNT UPDATE

After the canceled first day of the series on Thursday due to field conditions, the Jaspers took an early 2-0 lead through the first two innings of game one on Friday. The scoreless run for the Mountaineers was finally broken as Alex Mendes hit out a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the third, scoring Kyle Cincinnati for the Mount's first run. Later in the inning, Bryce Rudisill singled through the right side of the infield to score Evan Meier to tie the game at 2-2.

In the bottom of the fifth, Mendes singled through the left side of the infield, scoring Cincinnati and Sam Grube to take a two-run lead. The Mount poured on more in the inning as Rudisill ground out to second, driving in Mendes for a 5-2 lead. The Jaspers went onto score two in the top of the sixth to make it 5-4, but with the bases juiced in the top of the seventh, Josh Halcisak worked himself out of a sticky situation, striking out the final batter in the inning.

The bottom of the seventh started off well for the Mount, as Evan Meier was driven in by a Mendes hard hit single up the middle to add to the lead. But a top of the ninth rally by Manhattan saw two visitor runs come across the plate to relinquish the Mount lead and force extras.

Coming into relieve Halcisak out of the bullpen, Maximus McCrary pitched to a one, two, three inning, fanning the lead off man while producing a ground out and a fly out. Mendes drew a walk to start the bottom of the tenth followed by a Rudisill hit by pitch two put two men on base. A double steal was put in motion, putting both men into scoring position. Then, after much deliberation from the Manhattan coaching staff, putting five men into the infield, Logan Yi pinch hit for Sam Dinitz with zero outs on the board. After taking a first pitch ball, Yi laid down a bunt in front of the plate with enough back spin to completely halt the ball in between the pitcher and catcher, scoring Mendes from third while sending the Mount dugout into pandemonium over the walk-off bunt.

McCrary was accredited with his fifth win of the year while Halcisak recorded three innings of five-strikeout baseball and Eli DeRossi worked six innings on the mound, striking out three batters in the process. With the win, the Mount secured their spot in the 2025 MAAC Baseball Playoffs, their second appearance in the post-season in as many years while sitting in sixth place. The rest of the weekend was plagued with both rain and poor field conditions, canceling the rest of the series with the Jaspers.

The Mountaineers finished their 2025 campaign with a record of 23-27 with a conference record of 15-13, improving upon their 2024 record of 22-34-1 record while retaining a similar conference record of 13-11 against MAAC opponents.

Three Mountaineers were named to the MAAC Postseason honor roll as Serigne Sarre was named to both the conference second team and rookie team after posting an earned run average of 3.46 while striking out 82 batters, the most in the conference. Nolan Book and Sam Grube were also named to the All-MAAC Rookie team as the freshmen posted batting averages of .326 and .294 respectively, with Grube knocking in a team-leading 45 RBIs and Book notching 59 hits, tied with Ty Fredo atop the team hit count.

SCOUTING THE RED FOXES

Marist logged an overall record of 23-26 with a 14-14 record in the MAAC, good enough to grab the No. 7 seed in the conference tournament.  In their earlier meeting in Emmitsburg, the Red Foxes earned a series win against the Mountaineers by two games to one, outscoring the Mount 19-12 across three games. Marist went 7-7 in their games after their series with Mount St. Mary's, logging notable wins against UAlbany, Fordham, and Manhattan while recording series wins against Fairfield and Siena.

SERIES HISTORY

The Mountaineers and the Red Foxes have played each other on 24 occasions, with Marist holding a 15-9 record over the Mount. Their only ever meeting at a neutral site came in 2000 when the Red Foxes defeated the Mountaineers by a score of 17-5 in Homestead, Florida.