DeSales University Athletics

Center Valley, PA (May 9, 2026) - The DeSales University baseball team defeated Misericordia University, 8-4, to take home its ninth MAC Freedom Championship sweeping the three-game series with the Cougars on Saturday afternoon at Weiland Park.

The win improves DeSales to 33-12, the second most wins in program history behind just the 2005 squad that won 35 games. DSU earns the automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament and will find if it will host the NCAA Regional next weekend or be traveling on Monday afternoon.

Sophomore Jacob Rivera was named the Tournament's Most Valuable Player finishing the championship series 6-for-7 at the plate with two home runs and five RBIs.

DeSales took a 2-0 lead in this one in the bottom of the first inning as Rivera had a two-RBI single scoring graduate student Owen Fischl and senior JT Anderosky.

The Cougars got solo runs in the second and third innings to tie the game at two.

DSU wasted no time regaining the lead after an RBI double from Rivera, RBI ground out from junior Jack Sague, and squeeze bunt from first-year Dominic Berretta in the bottom of the third inning.

MU made it a one-run game in the fourth (5-4) before a two-RBI single from Sague made it 7-4 Bulldogs in the fifth.

From there it was senior Kyle Hart who shut it down tossing 5 2/3 shutout innings closing out the win to improve to 6-0 on the season.

Rivera, who added a solo home run in the seventh, finished 3-for-3 with four RBIs. Sague had three RBIs and Fischl scored three times. Senior Andrew McGowan pitched 3 1/3 innings allowing three earned runs.

Anderosky had one hit to give him 76 for the season tying the single-season record of 76 set by Ian Hauze in 2005.