TYSONS CORNER, VA - Susquehanna baseball split its Sunday doubleheader at Catholic, winning the first game in 11 innings to secure a Landmark series win.

Game 1: Susquehanna 7, Catholic 5 (11 innings)

The River Hawks fell behind early off two first-inning Catholic tallies, but two walks and three hits alongside a Sam Martucci sac fly gave the visiting River Hawks a 3-2 lead after three frames. CJ Orrego and Jaden Buechler collected RBIs with singles to center field.

With Catholic answering back for three in the fourth, the call for Dominic Giglio from the bullpen was made, and it proved the right decision, as Giglio shut down Catholic bats over 5.2 innings, allowing just two hits while striking out a career-high five.

A Michael Gagliardi sacrifice fly in the fifth brought the River Hawks within one as Dylan Heyduk scored, and the following frames came and went until the ninth, where Christian Biuso, as he did in Saturday's win, came up clutch with a game-tying RBI, singling to score Tyler Hmielewski.

Catholic threatened to walk it off in the bottom of the ninth, loading the bases with nobody out, but Giglio was able to navigate through the jam with a strikeout and two groundouts, one of which saw a potential winning run erased with a force at home plate.

After a scoreless tenth, the River Hawks scored the two critical runs in the 11th, with Tony Rossi's sacrifice fly bringing home Hmielewski. A double by Gagliardi scored Biuso to add an insurance run, and Zach Plank set down the Cardinals in the bottom of the inning to secure the win.

Gagliardi and Hmielewski contributed with three hits in the game, to make it six hits for Gagliardi and seven for Hmielewski in the two Susquehanna wins of the weekend.

Game 2: Catholic 2, Susquehanna 1

The River Hawks were unable to earn a sweep over the Cardinals in game three despite an excellent pitching performance, including two innings from starter Kieran Dougherty and six from first-year right-hander Ben Gearhart. Fifteen River Hawks left on base proved too steep a mountain to climb for Susquehanna.

Catholic scored in the bottom of the second to strike first, but Orrego's single in the third saw the River Hawks have an immediate answer.

The Cardinals took the lead again in the sixth, and the River Hawks were unable to answer back despite excellent pitching from Dougherty and Gearhart, as they left the bases loaded in the eighth inning.

Gearhart struck out one and was stuck with a loss despite needing only 65 pitches to record 18 outs. The River Hawks also worked 11 walks in the game, including three each by Heyduk and Rossi, with Rossi being handed an intentional free pass on two occasions.

After the split, the River Hawks remain at .500 in Landmark play at 7-7, while they sit at 14-13 overall. Next on the schedule is a four-game homestand, with Misericordia visiting on Tuesday, March 15th and Elizabethtown coming to town for a three-game set the following weekend.