POMONA, N.Y. (May 20, 2025) – Mount St. Mary's baseball was defeated by the Marist Red Foxes in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference single elimination round by a score of 12-3 on Tuesday in New York. With the loss, the Mountaineers end their run in the playoffs and their 2025 season with an overall record of 23-28.
The Mountaineer bats started the game off in the bottom of the first after a
Nolan Book Single to center field scored
Alex Mendes for an early 1-0 lead. But Marist struck back in the top of the second after two runs came in after an error was made by Fredo at third off a bat hop from the dirt. The Red Foxes went onto score another run in the top of the third before falling silent for an inning.
Ty Fredo hit out a solo home run into the left field bleachers during the bottom of the fourth inning to cut the deficit to one only for Marist to strike again in the top of the fifth to make it 4-2.
After a shutout sixth inning from both teams, the Red Foxes jumped ahead in the seventh and eighth inning, scoring four runs and three runs in each respective inning. The Red Foxes scored one more run in the top of the ninth, making it a 12-2 ball game headed into the bottom of the inning. Down by 10 runs, head coach
Frank Leoni decided to put his seniors into the game for their final appearance as college baseball players. Earlier in the ninth,
Tommy Moore was called out of the bullpen, striking out a batter.
Danny Salisbury came in from the bullpen a few at bats later and got out of the inning.
Logan Yi and
Nick Fleming were pinch hit in the bottom of the ninth, with Yi being hit by a pitch and scoring a run off a single from
Kyle Cincinnati, ending the Mount's scoring efforts on the day.
Serigne Sarre pitched 4.1 innings while giving up four hits and only being charged with two earned runs while striking out four Red Foxes. Fredo went 2-4 with an RBI after his fifth inning home run. Cincinnati went 2-4 with an RBI and
Nolan Book went 1-3 while knocking in the game's first run.
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Marist 0 2 1 0 1 0 4 3 1 12 13 2
Mount St. Mary's 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 2