EDWARDSVILLE, Pa. - The Arcadia University baseball team opened it Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom (MAC Freedom) series with Wilkes University by sweeping both ends of its doubleheader, taking game on 1-0 in nine innings before winning game two 7-4. 

HOW IT HAPPENED
GAME ONE: ARCADIA 1, WILKES 0 (NINE INNINGS)
-The game was scoreless until the top if the ninth when Justin Massielo scored the lone run on an errant pick-off throw to third base

-Hunter Curley went the first seven innings on the mound, allowing three hits with one walk and eight strikouts.

-Hunter Sibley earned the win with two hitless innings of relief with three strikeouts.

KNIGHT LEADERS
Hits: Trey Obarowski (2) / Emilio Pallante (1) / Anthony Bruno (1) / Matt Donchez (1)
Runs: Massielo (1)
Walks: Ryan Smolen (1)

GAME TWO: ARCADIA 7, WILKES 4
-Alex Madera opened the scoring with a two-run double in the top of the second scoring Donchez and Curley.

-Wilkes took the lead in the third with three runs.

-The Knights tied the score in the fifth on a squeeze bunt from Massielo the brought home Madera.

-Obarowski gave Arcadia the lead in the sixth when he tripled and scored on a throwing error.

-After the Colonels tied the score, Massielo again brought home Madera in the seventh.

-The Knights added two more runs in the seventh to finish the scoring.

-Nadell Booker earned the win, allowing one run on two hits.

-Sibley earned the save a scoreless seventh.

-Zach Steiger started on the mound, allowing three unearned runs on three hits with three strikeouts.

KNIGHTS LEADERS
Hits: Pallante (3) / Madera (2) / Donchez (2) / Curley (2)
Runs: Madera (2) 
RBI: Madera (2) / Massielo (2)
Walks: Madera (1) / Obarowski (1) / Anthony Bruno (1)

UP NEXT
Arcadia (8-6, 4-1 MAC Freedom) will finish its conference series with Wilkes tomorrow with a single game at 2:00 p.m.