ST. DAVIDS, Pa. – In his final game as an Eagle, Eastern University Baseball's Timmy Gorton played all nine positions and closed the door with a scoreless seventh inning in his second career pitching outing. With the 5-1 win in the season-finale, the Eagles salvaged a senior day split against the visiting Manhattanville College Valiants (15-16-1, 10-9).

Eastern (14-21, 6-15) scored four first-inning runs to give freshman stater Tyler Bennett an early cushion. Kyle Daddario, Brad Clemens, and Jordan Laboy had RBI singles and Freddy Yahn lifted his seventh sacrifice fly of the season to plate the fourth run.

Daddario was 2-for-4 in the nightcap after going 0-for-3 with a walk in the opener. The junior first baseman finished the year hitting .429, which is the third best single-season batting average in program history.

"I am so proud of Kyle," Head Coach Jed Morris said after the game." He had a slow start, but kept after it. Once he started hitting, he just kept hitting line drives."

The four run lead would be more than enough for Bennett. He gave up five hits and only one run in six innings. He struck out three and walked only one.

While Bennett was dealing, Gorton moved around the diamond. Eastern's regular catcher has played a decent amount of outfield this year and played regularly at third base in his first two years. Gorton muffed a tough chance at short in the third, but looked natural on a ground ball to second in the fourth. HIs inning in the outfield saw fly balls hit to the spot he just left on two occasions. His toughest chance of the day came on a high pop foul behind the bag at first. Gorton looked natural on the play.

The biggest test to the all-nine came after Gorton drove in a run with a bases loaded walk in the bottom of the sixth. With relief pitcher Matt Bunjo in right field, Gorton kept his career era perfect as he worked around a pair of walks for a scoreless seventh. Gorton struck out a batter before getting the final batter of the game to roll out to fellow senior Tommy Strazza.

Gorton becomes the third Eagle to play all nine. He joins Jordan Miller and Michael berry who did the same. Both men were on hand to see Gorton complete the feat. He finishes his career with 210 hits, 136 runs scored, 134 RBI's, 48 doubles, and a .547 slugging percentage. He is Eastern's career leader in all five categories. He is tied for the program mark with 11 career home runs, and he only struck out 48 times in over 620 plate appearances. 

As they have for much of the year, the Eagles brought the winning run to the plate in the opener, but fell short in an 8-6 loss. Strazza went 3-for-4 with a home run and three RBI's in his senior day outing. He started the game at second base and finished out the game ont he mound. Craig Stanley also had a pair of hits in the opener. Jarrid Kosa, the fourth Eastern senior to see action on senior day, went three innings and allowed two hits and two earned runs in his second career start.

The Eagles trailed 6-2 before scoring three in the bottom of the sixth. Manhattanville scored a pair in the seventh to provide what turned out to be critical insurance runs.

The Eastern staff recognized Gorton, Strazza, Kosa, Stanley, Peter Crawford and Grant Fisher before the start of the game.