Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 LANTANA, Fla. –Facing two of the top teams in the nation, the University of Mary baseball team kept pace early before fading late in a 16-10 loss to #18 Barry University and an 11-3 defeat against #21 Lynn University. U-Mary second baseman Austin Grundstad pounded out six hits on the day as the Marauders opened up their ten game spring break trip.
 
Six games into their 2014 schedule, the Marauders have played a nationally ranked team each time after opening the season with four contests at St. Mary's University.
 
GAME 1: #18 Barry University 16 U-Mary 10
Derek Somerville drove in four runs and Austin Grundstad scored three times but the Marauders (0-5 overall) couldn't parlay their best offensive game of the season into a win.
 
Highlighted by a Jason Shaul run-scoring double, U-Mary jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning before Barry (14-2) scored twice in the bottom of one. Both teams would score twice each in the third before the Buccaneers tallied three times in the fourth and two more times in the fifth.
 
Playing from behind for the first time, U-Mary posted five runs in the sixth to knot the game at 9-9. Somerville hit a two-run single between third and short to cap the Marauders rally.
 
Barry responded immediately, scoring five of its own to take command of the game. Mike Diaz and Carlos Matamoros pounded back to back two-run doubles.
 
Grundstad was 2-for-4 with three runs scored and an RBI. He also walked twice.
 
Mason Schiff finished 3-of-5 with a run scored, Somerville knocked in four runs.
 
Sheehan Planas posted three of Barry's 17 hits.
 
GAME 2: #21 Lynn 11 U-Mary 3
Austin Grundstad recorded four hits and Alex Deyle and Scott Held each added two more but the Marauders (0-6)were unable to take advantage of numerous early scoring opportunities in an 11-3 loss to Lynn (14-3).
 
After the Marauders left two runners in scoring position in the second inning and the bases full in the third after scoring just once, the Knights took control of the game with four in the third. A Tom Kain two-run single gave Lynn a lead it would never lose.
 
A bases loaded walk to Dwight Mack in the fifth and a Scott Held 2-run single in the sixth pulled U-Mary within 5-3 but Lynn responded to the pressure with another four spot in the bottom of the sixth.
 
Grundstad opened the game with four straight hits and finished 4-for-5 with two runs scored. Deyle was 2-for-5 and Held 2-for-4.
 
Enrique Perez went 3-for-4 for the Knights with two runs scored, including a steal of home. Matt Ackerman also had three hits and Alex DeBellis drove in three runs.
 
The Marauders next face Post University and Chestnut Hill on Monday, March 3.
 
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