Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 VERO BEACH, Fla. – Playing at the one-time spring training home of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the University of Mary baseball team had a little taste of old time baseball by breaking out the wood bats. U-Mary split a pair of games against two members of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference, which uses wood bats in its league games.  The Marauders beat Post University 11-3 before being edged 5-4 by Chestnut Hill College.
 
The switch from metal didn't deter the Marauders offensive attack. U-Mary pounded out 19 hits and scored 14 runs on the day.
 
GAME 1: U-Mary 11 Post University 3
The Marauders posted big numbers in three different innings to earn their first win of the season, an 11-4 victory over the Eagles. Andrew Beyer and Mason Schiff both drove in three runs, Jason Shaul posted three hits and Zach Steckler struck out eight to headline U-Mary's efforts.
 
The Marauders (1-6 overall) stunned the Eagles (0-4) by scoring the first four runs of the game in the third inning. With two outs, Alex Deyle swung and missed for strike three on what could have been the final out of the inning. Instead Deyle reached base when the Eagles catcher missed the ball. Four straight walks followed to bring home two runs and a Schiff single scored a third. U-Mary tacked on the final run on another walk.
 
Immediately the Eagles retaliated with three runs in the fourth, hitting three doubles and scoring three times against Marauders starting pitcher Zach Steckler.
 
The sophomore righty soon settled back down to post back to back scoreless innings to earn his first collegiate win. Steckler finished the game with eight strikeouts in 6.2 innings, allowing eight hits, two walks and four runs. Evan Morehead allowed just one hit in 1.1 scoreless innings and Sam Salveson pitched a scoreless ninth, striking out two hitters.
 
Using four hits and three Eagles errors, the Marauders posted four runs in the fifth to take control of the game. An Andrew Beyer bunt single scored one run and two more scored on a single by Schiff. The final U-Mary run scored when post second basemen Mike Shada committed two of his three errors in the game on the same play.
 
Another three Eagle errors, who committed six total in the game, led to three more Marauders runs in the eighth.
 
Shaul finished 3-for-4, scoring twice with two stolen bases. Derek Somerville was 2-for-2, scoring three times, driving in two and stealing two bases. Schiff went 2-for-4 with three RBIs and a run scored. Scott Held scored three times and stole two bases and Grundstad added two hits in six at bats.
 
Julius Casaubon led the Eagles offense with a 3-for-3 performance at the plate and Zach Brecht drove in two runs.
 
GAME 2: Chestnut Hill 5 U-Mary 4
A game either team rightfully could have claimed, Chestnut Hill squeezed past the University of Mary 5-4 when the winning run scored on a hit batter in the eighth inning.
 
Behind aggressive baserunning and timely hitting, the Griffins jumped out to a 3-0 lead after two innings. A hit batter with two outs led to a single run in the first. Chestnut Hill tallied twice in the second, once on a steal of home and a second from second on an infield single.
 
Somerville scored the Marauders first run in the fourth, cruising home from second on a two-out single by Dwight Mack.
 
After pushing their lead to 4-1 with a single run in the fourth, the Eagles threatened to blow the game open in the fifth. After loading the bases with no outs, U-Mary starting pitcher Nick Stobbe recorded a strikeout and a tremendous double play started by Schiff – who stepped on third for a force out and gunned the ball to Somerville to retune the hitter at first – kept the Marauders in the game.
 
A throwing error in the sixth inning by the CHC catcher to score one run and a Sam Ingemansen sacrifice fly scoring a second moved the Marauders within 4-3. U-Mary evened the score in the seventh on a two-out run-scoring double by Somerville plated Shaul.
 
The Eagles scratched out the winning run in the eighth. With two outs and a runner on second, Michael McLaughlin barely beat out a slow roller to short. After a walk to load the bases, Salveson came on in relief and hit Brendan Looby to score the winning run.
 
U-Mary nearly pulled the game out in the ninth. With two outs, Shaul hit a low line shot to left field that eluded the defender and rolled to the wall for a triple. After a walk to Held, pinch runner Trenten Hove was allowed to take second. The Marauders couldn't take advantage as Somerville was retired on a pop fly down the right field line.
 
Shaul concluded the game 3-for-3 with a double, triple and run scored. Mack was 2-for-2 with an RBI and Beyer finished 2-for-3 with a run scored. Somerville recoded two runs, an RBI, and had one hit in three at bats.
 
Stobbe struck out three, allowed three earned runs on eight hits and four walks in six innings.  
 
McLaughlin finished with three hits in five at bats for the Griffins. Seven other players each have one hit and Koehler scored twice.
 
The Marauders return to action on March 4 when U-Mary faces Nyack College and Post.
 
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