CLEVELAND, OH. – The Pomona-Pitzer Baseball team dropped their opening contest at the 2024 Division III College World Series with a 6-3 loss to Misericordia on Friday morning at Classic Auto Group Park.
 
Season Impact: With the loss, the Sagehens fall to 37-13 overall and now enter the elimination bracket of the College World Series 
 
The Sagehens were led by Isaac Kim who went 3-5 at the plate with two RBI in the loss. Peter Savas also picked up a two-hit performance while JC Ng, Greg Pierantoni, Jack Gold, and William Kinney had one each.
 
Jake Hilton got the start and picked up the loss to move to 9-3 on the year after he went 5.1 innings, gave up four runs off five hits and four strikeouts. Eric Prough came in relief and gave up two runs, one of them earned.
 
Misericordia got ahead early with the first run of the World Series in their first at-bats to take an early 1-0 lead. The Cougars added on another run in the fourth to extend the lead to 2-0 before the Sagehens' offense got going in the bottom of the fifth.
 
Kim started the scoring for the Sagehens with a two-run double down the left field line while Pierantoni singled home Kim to give the Sagehens a 3-2 lead.
 
Misericordia came right back to reclaim the lead in the sixth after an RBI single and a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch put the Cougars back on top 4-3.
 
The Cougars added some insurance runs in the ninth helped out by a few miscues from the Sagehen defense that allowed two more runs to score to make it 6-3 Misericordia in the ninth.
 
The Sagehens brought the tying run to the plate in the bottom of the ninth, but the Cougars got out of it with a game-ending double play to hand the Sagehens a loss in their opening game of the 2024 World Series.
 
Up Next: The Sagehens will next face the loser of Endicott and Lynchburg on Saturday, June 1^st at 10:00 a.m. EDT.