PURCHASE, NY – The Manhattanville College baseball team split a Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Freedom doubleheader Saturday April 6 against the Wilkes University Colonels, dropping game one 6-1 before bouncing back with a monstrous offensive performance in a 12-1 game two win.

Junior Peter Iannarilli (West Nyack, N.Y./Clarkstown South) finished the afternoon 4-for-7, including a three-run homer and his 100^th hit as a Valiant in the game two win. Senior Luke Scoggins (Merrick, N.Y./Sanford H. Calhoun), junior Matt Lynch (Wappingers Falls, N.Y./Roy C. Ketcham), sophomore Jack Matero (Hopewell Junction, N.Y./John Jay) and freshman Tyler Viscusi (Wappingers Falls, N.Y./Roy C. Ketcham) each had hits in both games, with the quartet finishing the afternoon a combined 15-for-26 with six runs and five RBI's for Manhattanville (11-10, 7-3 MACF). On the mound, freshman Alby Ciuffetelli (Mahopac, N.Y./Yorktown) turned in his best start of the season, allowing just one run on four hits in 5.1 innings of work, picking up his first collegiate win.

GAME ONE: Wilkes (10-13, 5-6 MACF) scored twice in the top of the first and added another in the second while Colonels' starter Noah Durnin didn't allow a Manhattanville batter past first base until the bottom of the fourth, when the Valiants put runners on second and third with two out, but could not convert. Three more runs in the top of the sixth gave the visitors a 6-0 lead. Singled from Lynch and Matero and an RBI single by Scoggins got the Valiants on the board, but that was it for the Valiants, who left six men on base.

GAME TWO: Each team pushed a run across in the first inning, which was followed by a scoreless second and top of the third.

In the bottom of the third, senior Kieran Corrigan (Mahopac, N.Y./Mahopac) led off with a walk and Scoggins followed with a single. On a 2-1 offering, Iannarilli launched a JT Hibschman offering over the 375-foot sign in right-center field, shooting Manhattanville out in front 4-1. After sophomores Luke Shaffer (Monroe, Conn./Masuk) and Hathaway Roper (Stratford, Conn./Bunnell) both singled, junior Joseph Silvestri (Bronx, N.Y./Archbishop Stepinac) was hit by a pitch, loading the bases with nobody out. After a run-scoring double play, Lynch followed with an RBI single, putting the Valiants up 6-1.

The score remained that way into the bottom of the fifth, with Ciuffetelli inducing a bases-loaded fly out to end the top of the fifth. In the Manhattanville fifth, Silvestri and Viscusi got things started with back-to-back singles. After Lynch walked to load the bases, Matero singled home Silvestri and Viscusi. After Corrigan singled to re-load the bases, Iannarilli singled to center for his 100^th career hit, scoring Lynch. After Shaffer drew a bases loaded walk, Roper drove in Corrigan with a sac fly to left. After Silvestri walked, Viscusi was hit by a pitch, plating Iannarilli for the Valiants sixth run of the inning.

Ciuffetelli left with the bases loaded and one out in the sixth, but senior Rami Masani (Westbury, N.Y./W.T. Clarke) struck out a pair of Colonels' pinch-hitters to end the inning without a run scoring. Junior Mike Rothman (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./Yorktown) came on for Masani in the seventh and got the final two outs for the Valiants
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Manhattanville wraps up its MAC Freedom series with the Colonels in Wilkes-Barre tomorrow, with first pitch scheduled for 1 p.m.