NEWBURGH, N.Y. – The Yeshiva University baseball team dropped both ends of its Skyline Conference double-header to Mount Saint Mary College, at the MSMC Baseball Complex, on Sunday afternoon. Final scores were 10-3 and 13-2.

In the opening game, freshman pitcher Sonny Braha started the game on the mound for the Maccabees (0-10, 0-8 Skyline) and pitched seven innings, giving up just two hits, four earned runs, and striking out four batters to take the hard-fought loss.

The Knights (5-4, 2-0 Skyline) scored three runs in each of the first two innings to take a commanding lead. The Maccabees got two of those runs back in the top of the fifth. With runners on second and third, and two outs, sophomore third baseman Alex Malech singled to right center field, scoring freshman catcher Simon Schoen and senior right fielder Mordechai Cohen to pull the Blue and White to within four.

Mount Saint Mary scored three runs in the home half of the eighth inning to take a commanding 10-2 lead. The Maccabees had runners at the corners, with nobody out, in the top of the ninth. Braha picked up an RBI on a groundout to second, scoring senior first baseman Chaim Nosson Rosenberg, for Yeshiva's third run. That would be all the Maccabees would get, as Mount Saint Mary went on to earn the convincing win in the opening contest.

Blake Keenan got the win for the Knights, striking out eight batters in five innings. Joe Stewart pitched four shutout frames in relief. Freshman left fielder Shmuel Silverstein, Cohen, Braha, and Schoen each produced a single. Rosenberg drew two walks.

In game two, the Knights built a 5-0 advantage after four innings of play. Braha once again picked up an RBI in the top of the fifth, by doubling down the left field line to score Cohen. He advanced to third on the throw, and would eventually come around to score on an RBI groundout by Malech. That would narrow the Knights' lead to 5-2. However, the home team would score eight runs over the next two innings to put the game out of reach for the Maccabees.

On the mound, Cohen went five-plus innings to take the loss. Ryan Hayes earned a complete game victory for the Knights, giving up no earned runs and striking out seven Yeshiva hitters in the process.

At the plate, Braha went 2-for-3, while senior shortstop Shmuli Goldis reached base with a single.

Yeshiva will be back in action on Monday, April 9, for a single-game at Vaughn College. Time of first pitch is to be announced.