Merchant Marine

On Friday, April 29 we left Susquehanna for Long Island to play Merchant Marine.  After the four hour drive over we woke up on Saturday for a double header.  Coming into the weekend we needed to win two out of the three games to secure ourselves a playoff position.  If Juniata lost any of their games then we would only have to win one to move on.  The first game close the whole way through and we eventually took a 6 to 5 lead going into the last inning.  Unfortunately Merchant Marine scored 2 runs in the bottom of the last inning to take game one.  We came back in game and lost another tough one 8 to 4.  We found out that Juniata had lost one of their so all we had to do was to win Sunday's game to make it the playoffs.  We were down 3 to 0 early in the game.  But came back and had a 10 run inning to take a big league.  Things got close towards the end but we ended up pulling out the victory 14 to 13.  Next weekend we will be playing in the Landmark Conference Playoffs at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.  It is a double elimination tournament.  We are the number 4 seed for the tournament so we will be playing the number 1 seeded Moravian.