PURCHASE, NY – Senior Nick Campana (Yonkers, N.Y./St. John the Baptist Elementary) reached base in all five of his plate appearances and scored four runs and sophomores Peter Iannarilli (West Nyack, N.Y./Clarkstown South) and Matt Lynch (Wappingers Falls, N.Y./Roy C. Ketcham) each had three hits and combined for three runs and five RBI's, providing more than enough offense for starting pitcher Pat Badia (Somers, N.Y./Somers) as the Manhattanville Valiants earned a key conference win Friday afternoon, knocking off the Eastern Eagles 14-9 at Manhattanville Field.

On just two days' rest, the left-hander allowed just three hits through the first six innings, finishing with 6.2 innings, allowing just two earned runs while striking out four in his longest outing since April 12 of last year. While Badia kept the Eastern (13-20, 5-14 MACF) bats quiet, the Manhattanville (14-15-1, 9-8 MACF) offense scored early and often, scoring three times in the second and five times in the third.

Iannarilli singled in freshman Luke Shaffer (Monroe, Conn./Masuk) with the first run of the game and, after Campana doubled him to third, scored on a wild pitch. Lynch followed with a single, plating Campana.
In the third, with one run already in following a bases-loaded walk to Campana, the Valiants 1-3 hitters all delivered two-out RBI hits. Lynch drove in two with a single, graduate student Chris Conklin (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./Lakeland), who was hit by a pitch three times on the afternoon, followed with an RBI single, and junior Luke Scoggins (Merrick, N.Y./Sanford H. Calhoun) drove in Lynch with a double.

Neither team put a man past second base in the fourth or fifth, but the Valiants tacked on four more in the sixth. Campana and Lynch both delivered run-scoring singles, and two additional runs crossed on a two-out error.

Eastern put four on the board in the seventh, two in the eighth, and three more in the ninth, as Timmy Gorton and Kyle Daddario both drove in two runs, but the Valiants added two themselves in the eighth on a two-run single by Scoggins, keeping the Eagles at bay.

The two teams are back in action tomorrow in a doubleheader in St, Davids, PA, closing out their MAC Freedom series. First pitch of Game 1 is scheduled for 1:00 p.m.