MANSFIELD- The Mansfield Mountaineers baseball team split a weekend series with Holy Family on Feb.28 and March 1. 
 
Mansfield (5-6) took games one and four in the series. Scores from Saturday were 14-13 in game one, a defeat of 9-8 in eight innings in game two. Sunday Mounties lost game three 3-2, and took the final game 8-2.
 
GAME ONE Mansfield 14 Holy Family 13 
 
A stellar seventh inning would be what propelled the Mounties to the victory. Slade Mictigue and Ryan Sekulski would each drive in three runs in the game, including Mictigue's first Mountianeer home run. Luke Liptack would earn his first win of the season.
 
Mansfield trailed 9-5 entering the final inning. Brinden Floyd and Peter Tadic would drive in the first two runs. After a walked in run Tanner Hoffman, Sekulski and Kahale Burns would all assist in giving the Mounties the 11-9 lead. Mictigue put the exclamation point on the inning with a three run home run to go up 14-9.
 
The Mountie defense would outlast a charge from Holy Family winning 14-13.
 
GAME TWO Holy Family 9 Mansfield 8 (8 innings) 
 
Mansfield played in their fourth extra inning game of the year in the second game. Micheal Palmer had three RBI to lead the Mounties. 
 
Mansfield got off to a quick start with four back-to-back at bats leading to a 4-0 lead. Holy Family would claim the lead through a six run fourth inning. Mansfield tied the game 8-8 in the sixth with a two-RBI single from Palmer. The Tigers would get the walk of win in extras. 
 
GAME THREE Holy Family 3 Mansfield 2
 
Sunday's first game was a pitchers duel. MicTigue and Cooper Rother accounted for the Mountie RBIs.
 
 After the Tigers scored in the first inning, Mictigue tied it on an RBI single in the third, 1-1. 
 
Holy Family would plate two runs in the sixth. Mansfield comeback attempt would fall short and drop the game 3-2.
 
GAME FOUR Mansfield 8 Holy Family 2
 
 The Mountie bat got going early in the final game of the series. In the second inning, Logan Wells, Nick Ledger, Sekulski, and Burns would put the Mountaineers up 5-0. 
 
The Tigers responded in the top of the third plating two before Rother drove in another giving Mansfield a 6-2 run. The final two runs would walk safely home after back-to-back walks then a hit by pitch with the bases loaded left the score at 8-2. 
 
Guy Longenberger would get the win for the Mounties. 
 
 
UP NEXT: 
Mansfield next travels to a tournament in Wilson N.C. from Thursday March 5 to Saturday, March 7. They will take on Chestnut Hill College and Clarion.