Langhorne, PA – What a day. The Cairn baseball team and St. Joseph's College – Brooklyn Bears played a pair of thrilling games in Langhorne on a perfect Tuesday afternoon with the Highlanders taking both games for the sweep. Cairn ran away from the Bears early in Game One and took the opener by a 20-12 final. Game Two on the other hand was a bit more dramatic. The Highlanders edged the Bears on a walk-off single by Daniel Morales to cap off a two-run rally in the game's final frame to earn the 5-4 victory.
 
Game One – Cairn defeats St. Joseph's College – Brooklyn 20-12
The Highlanders brought the bats with them to the field on Tuesday afternoon. Cairn hammered the ball to the tune of 20 runs and 17 hits in the first game of a doubleheader against St. Joseph's College - Brooklyn, defeating the Bears by a 20-12 final in Game One.
 
Aaron Takacs and Nathan Wilson each led the charge with 4-5 efforts. Wilson finished with four hits, a walk, three runs, three RBI, and two doubles while Takacs wrapped up Game One with four hits, three runs, six RBI, and three doubles. Takacs delivered a double in each of the first three innings, driving home five runs in the process.
 
On the mound, John Burlaga earned his first win of the season, going five innings and allowing five runs (all earned) on five hits and three walks.
 
Cairn scored 15 runs in the first three innings to take a 15-1 lead. The Bears responded with 11 runs in the fifth, sixth, and seventh but the Highlanders scored five late runs to secure the high-scoring victory in a marathon game that lasted just a hair over three hours.
 
Game Two – Cairn defeats St. Joseph's College – Brooklyn 5-4
The Highlanders struck first in Game Two with three runs in the bottom of the third. The Bears immediately responded and tied the game at 3-3 just a half inning later. After the Highlanders could not break the tie in the bottom of the fourth, the Bears did in the away half of the fifth. A leadoff home run to left center by Nicholas LoPrinzi gave the Bears a 4-3 lead.
 
The lead held until the home half of the seventh. Facing a one-run deficit in the bottom of the last inning, Nathan Wilson led off the inning with a walk and swiped second. Two more walks loaded the sacks with no outs for Daniel Morales.
 
Jonathan Schneider then replaced the St. Joseph's starter, Vincent Juliano, who had gone six innings and tossed 131 pitches to that point. The first pitch that Schneider delivered went to the backstop and allowed Wilson, the tying run, to scamper home.
 
With the game now tied, Morales worked the count and on a full count knocked a groundball toward first that got through and allowed Aaron Takacs to score from third to give Cairn the 5-4, walk-off victory.
 
Cairn took advantage of 11 walks issued by the Bears in Game Two alone.
 
Earlier in the game, Aaron Takacs smoked a two-RBI double to center field and Morales followed with an RBI double down the right field line to bring home Cairn's three runs prior to the seventh.
 
Cairn will quickly turn around and play a single game tomorrow afternoon when they travel to Immaculata to take on the CSAC leading Mighty Macs at 3:00 p.m.