BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Catholic picked up a 6-2 victory over Moravian on Sunday afternoon to take the series over the Greyhounds and remain in a battle for Landmark supremacy.
Cody Bosak earned the win while
Mitchel Johnson homered and
Matt Perlin drove in three runs for Catholic. For Bosak, it was a fourth consecutive strong outing as the junior pitched 5.2 innings, striking out seven and allowing just one run. Bosak has a 1.13 ERA in 32.0 innings this season while striking out 41 batters.
Leading 1-0 thanks to a run-scoring wild pitch in the second, Johnson gave the Cardinals a 2-0 lead as he hammered his sixth big fly of the season.
Moravian trimmed the deficit to one against Bosak in the sixth with an RBI single, but
Mac Meara entered for Catholic and struck out the next batter to end the inning.
Catholic added two more in the seventh, pushing the lead to 4-1. First, Perlin drove in a run with an RBI ground out before
Steve Thomas hit an RBI single through the left side to score
Jack Elwell. Meara tossed a scoreless seventh to keep the three-run lead intact.
A solo homer in the eighth brought the Greyhounds within two, but Perlin added some insurance in the ninth with a two-run single.
Brendan Martin came on to pitch a clean ninth for Catholic as they won game number 24 of the season.
Catholic has a big week upcoming with two non-conference contests against York and Stevenson before a Landmark Conference series with Lycoming.