HUNTINGDON, Pa. - The 22nd-ranked Catholic Cardinals plated four runs in the seventh inning on Sunday to earn a 7-3 victory over Juniata, taking the weekend series two games to one. Ross Natoli's team finishes the regular season with a record of 26-9 while completing Landmark Conference play with a record of 13-5. 

After Juniata tied the contest at 3-3 in the bottom of the sixth inning, Catholic scored four runs on four hits in the top of the seventh in what would prove to be the difference in the 7-3 affair. With Hunter Tate on the mound for the Eagles, four of the five batters he faced reached base to quickly force him from the game. Tate retired Derek Zelesnick to start the inning before hitting Joe Marini with a pitch. Zach Burton singled through the right side to put runners on the corners for Mitchel Johnson. Johnson came through with a double down the left field line, putting Catholic ahead 5-3. Tate walked Dante Pozzi before being removed from the contest. 

Now with a new pitcher on the mound, Pozzi and Johnson advanced on a passed ball before Lucas Malave singled to center to drive in both runs and put Catholic ahead 7-3. After issuing a leadoff walk in the bottom of the seventh, Cormac Terry struck out three straight to complete the shutdown inning. Terry allowed just two hits and struck out six across the final three innings to earn a nine-out save. 

Danny Fitzgerald picked up the win for Catholic, pitching 6.0 innings, allowing three runs, and striking out six batters. Burton had three hits for the Cardinals while Malave and Michael Napolitano each had a multi-hit game. Malave also singled in the fourth inning to score Pozzi and put Catholic ahead 2-1 at the time. 

STATS OF NOTE

• Johnson finished the year on a tear at the plate, smacking another double today to set the Catholic program record for doubles in a season with 21. With six home runs and a triple, Johnson leads the team in extra-base hits with 28. 
• Continuing to rake at the plate when given the opportunity, Napolitano played in his 20th career collegiate game today and picked up his eighth career multi-hit game. Napolitano is hitting .451 and slugging .686 in 51 at-bats. 
• After a slower start to the year, Burton turned it on in Landmark play, hitting .320 with five extra-base hits and nine RBIs during the conference season. 
• With six strikeouts today, Fitzgerald now is just two strikeouts shy of 100 for his career, averaging almost exactly a strikeout per inning as he has tossed 98.1 innings in his career. 

The seeding for this weekend's Landmark Conference Tournament is - #1 Elizabethtown (16-2), #2 Catholic (13-5), #3 Scranton (11-7), and #4 Susquehanna (9-9). Elizabethtown and Susquehanna will meet at 3:30 p.m. on Friday to kick off the tournament before Catholic and Scranton go head-to-head at 7 p.m.