West Wyomissing, PA (May 4, 2019) - The DeSales University baseball team battled back from a loss in the morning game and a 5-3 and 6-5 deficit in the second game to split the action on day two of the MAC Freedom postseason tournament and advance to the championship game on Sunday.

The Bulldogs stay alive and will now face top seeded Misericordia University in the championship game on Sunday.  DSU will need to defeat the Cougars twice in the double elimination format to win the MAC Freedom title and earn the conference's automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.  Because of the forecast the first game on Sunday is now slated to begin at 4:00 pm at Owl's Field.

Game One (L/2-10)
Misericordia jumped out early in the first game of the day scoring twice in the second and third innings to take a 4-0 lead.  

DSU tallied a run in the fourth on an RBI single from senior Nick White, but MU answered with four runs in the bottom half of the inning and never really looked back from there.

Freshman Will Manley took the loss allowing six earned over 3 1/3 innings in his first career postseason start.

Senior Charlie Barebo was the lone Bulldog with multiple hits, tallying two of DSU's nine in the game.

Game Two (W/9-6)
DeSales led 3-0 early scoring twice in the first inning on a sacrifice fly from Barebo and sophomore Sean Hanczaryk and once in the third on a second sacrifice fly from Barebo.

The Valiants responded with four runs in the bottom of the third and added one more in the fifth to take a 5-3 lead.

Junior Alex Condello took advantage of a two-out error, hitting a two-run home run to right field tying the game at five before MC reclaimed the lead (6-5) with a run in the bottom half.

The Bulldogs controlled the final three innings scoring twice in the seventh on a two-run single from White and twice more in the eighth on an RBI single from senior Preston Amato and RBI triple from Barebo.

Senior Austin Kroeger earned the win tossing three scoreless innings allowing just two hits and senior Felix Martinez Jr. picked up a save pitching a scoreless ninth.

Amato had three hits and scored three times, Barebo knocked in three runs, and N. White and Condello each had two hits and two RBIs in the game two win.