PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (March 22, 2026) - Georgian Court Baseball finished up their season series with Holy Family, playing a single game in Philadelphia. The game featured three lead changes in the late innings and after nine, Holy Family was the one on top, 9-7.

How it Happened
• Holy Family totaled 12 hits to score nine runs. The Lions put together nine hits and scored seven times.
• For the second straight game, the Lions had a more contact-heavy approach and struck out just four times.
• The Tigers made a pair of errors that led to an unearned run. The Lions made just one error in the field.
• Of the 21 hits, 20 were singles. The lone extra-base hit in the game was an eighth-inning HFU triple.
• The scoring didn't start until the third inning when the Lions scored twice. The top of the order was locked in Oliver Santana and Frankie Noviello delivered the first runs of the game, picking up RBI's for a 2-0 lead.
• Santana delivered again in the fifth with a run-scoring hit and the Lions lead was now 3-0.
• After a relatively calm early half of the game, the second was anything but. Of the 16 runs, 14 were scored from the fifth inning on and in the final nine half-innings played, runs were scored in six of them.
• Holy Family put up two big innings. The first came in the fifth when they took their first lead with a five-run inning. Three RBI hits in the inning put the Tigers ahead 5-3.
• The Lions responded to tie the game the next half inning. Noviello and Brian Guzman led off the inning with singles and came in to score on Jack Osmond's two-RBI single to center.
• HFU reclaimed the lead in the home-half of the inning. Brayden King led off getting hit by a pitch, stole second, moved to third on a balk and scored on a single from the next batter.
• GCU had a two-out rally to reclaim a 7-6 lead in the seventh. Noviello and Guzman kept the inning alive with two-out base knocks and another Osmond, this time JR, singled to right to tie the game. Guzman came in with the go-ahead run as a wild throw from the catcher allowed him to trot in from third.
• Lorenzo Lamattina pitched a perfect bottom of the seventh to keep GCU on top, but the Tigers put up three in the eighth. It started with a leadoff walk, then three straight one-out hits, including a two-run triple, gave Holy Family a 9-7 lead.
• Georgian Court went down in order in the ninth and the Tigers completed the sweep.

Lion Stat Leaders
• Frankie Noviello finished 3-5 with two runs scored and an RBI.
• Brian Guzman singled and scored twice.
• Oliver Santana drove in a pair and stole a base.
• Jack Osmond singled and knocked in two runs.
• Jack Greenspan singled, walked, and scored two runs. 
• Samir Lopez started on the mound and after throwing four shutout innings, couldn't get out of the fifth. His final line saw him go 4.1 innings allowing four runs on six hits while striking out four. 

For the Tigers
• Jalen David finished 4-5 with runs runs and an RBI.
• Andres Rivera had the big two-RBI triple in the eighth as part of a 2-3 day.
• Perry Chetney went 2-4 with a run scored and an RBI.
• Trevor Morris worked a 1-2-3 ninth for his second save in as many games.

News and Notes
• The top three in the Lions lineup, Santana, Noviello and Guzman were a combined 6-14 with four runs and three RBI.
• GCU struck out just five times in the final two games of the series.
• Brian Guzman was 5-11 in the series. JR Osmond drove in five runs.
• Georgian Court was much better Sunday hitting with men on base. They were 6-17 with runners on and 4-10 with runners in scoring position.

Up Next
• Georgian Court heads to Caldwell for a doubleheader Wednesday, March 25 starting at 2 pm.