EMMITSBURG, Md. (May 3, 2025) – Mount St. Mary's baseball lost game two of their Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference series against Quinnipiac by a score of 17-11. With the loss, the Mount falls to overall record of 18-27 with a conference record of 10-13.

An early 3-0 Bobcat lead was canceled out by the Mountaineers in the bottom of the third as Bryce Rudisill hit out a three-run home run to tie the game at 3-3. An Alex Mendes sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fourth scored Sam Grube to grab the Mount's first lead of the game at 4-3.

A four-spot of runs came across the plate in the top of the fifth by the Bobcats, only to be outdone by a five run inning from the Mountaineers in the bottom of the inning. The scoring started with a Evan Smith sent a two-run home run out to leftfield, driving in Rudisill to cut the deficit to 7-6. After a Quinnipiac pitching change, Mateo Zeppieri sent a single up the middle that scored Grube and Agar, grabbing a 8-7 lead. A double steal trick play was called in the bottom half of the inning that scored Mendes to round off a five-run Mountaineer fifth inning.

But a nine-run, top of the seventh from Quinnipiac stunted the Mountaineer run game from the plate, as the Bobcats grabbed a 17-9 lead in the top half of the inning. The Mount scoring efforts were rounded off by a Mendes single in the bottom half of three seventh that scored Evan Meier and a Jake Maske sacrifice fly in the bottom of the eighth that scored Rudisill, rounding of the Mountaineer innings.
 
Team               1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   R  H  E
Quinnipiac         1   1   1   0   4   1   9   0   0  17 16  1
Mount St. Mary's   0   0   3   1   5   0   1   1   0  11  8  2
 
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The Mountaineers face off against Quinnipiac in game two of the series tomorrow, May 3, with first pitch scheduled for 11:00 a.m. in Emmitsburg.