RADNOR, Pa. – The Cairn University baseball team dropped their regular season finale on the road at non-conference foe Cabrini University by a score of 15-8 on Tuesday afternoon.
 
Cabrini (27-9) jumped on the board immediately in the first inning, slapping eight hits in the opening frame to score eight runs and led 8-1 at the end of the first inning. The Cavaliers took a commanding lead in the second after plating six more runs and held a 14-1 advantage after two. Cairn (25-14) crawled back into the contest and trailed by 11 (15-4) after six innings, before one swing by freshman Tyler Warr (Langhorne, PA / Neshaminy) got them back into the contest, a three-run home run (his third of the season) cut the deficit to 15-7 after seven innings. The Highlanders tacked on one more run in the bout, but the deficit proved insurmountable as the Cavaliers held on for the non-conference victory.
 
Warr led the Highlanders on offense with two hits and three RBIs, while juniors Tyler Fox (Boyertown, PA / West-Mont Christian Academy) and Samuel Spadea (Yardley, PA / Pennsbury) and graduate student Brian Amantia Jr. (Columbus, NJ / King's Christian) each added a pair of base knocks. Freshman Joseph Battaglia (Manasquan, NJ / Brentwood Academy) put forth the best effort on the bump for the Highlanders, tossing three scoreless innings in relief, while graduate student Ben Spadea (Yardley, PA / Pennsbury) got out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam to lower his earned-run average to 2.49 on the season.
 
Cairn earned the No. 3 seed in the upcoming Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) Championship Tournament and will be back on the diamond on Thursday, May 6 when they travel to Chambersburg for the first game of a best-of-three series against No. 2 seed Wilson College in the CSAC Semifinals starting at 2 p.m.