ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. – In three wins to open the season, the Bard College baseball team got away with committing two errors in each game. In four games this weekend, they got away with nothing.

Bard was swept in a non-league doubleheader, 5-4 in eight innings, and 2-1 in seven innings, by Mount St. Mary College on Sunday afternoon.

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After giving up five unearned runs combined in a pair of losses to Hamilton on Saturday, Bard gave up four unearned runs combined on Sunday, and it cost the Raptors two games. Bard (3-4) has lost four in a row, three by a single run.

In the first game Sunday, the Knights (4-7) managed a run in the second and a run in the third off of Bard freshman starter John Wendt, but not much else. An RBI single by Adam Carafotes in the third cut the lead to 2-1, and Bard tied it in the fourth on a sacrifice fly by Rory Maglich.

Bard took the lead in the bottom of the sixth. Pinch-hitter Matt Lasky walked and went to second on a sacrifice bunt by Maglich. David Schlosser singled to center to give Bard a 3-2 lead, and Bard was three outs away from a Game 1 victory.

But things went awry right away in the top of the seventh. Rob Peccerillo (Staten Island, NY) singled off of Bard reliever JP Fisher, then went to second on an errant pickoff throw. He later scored on an outfield error to tie the game and send it to extra innings.

In the top of the eighth, a hit batsman, a walk, and an error loaded the bases with no outs against Bard reliever Adam Carafotes. After Carafotes induced a 1-2-3 double play, Jimmy Papineau (Pleasant Valley, NY) singled to left-center to score two unearned runs. It was 5-3.

In the bottom of the eighth, Matt Lasky doubled and scored on a two-out single by Schlosser to make it 5-4, but Sean Betterly (1-0) induced a game-ending groundout, and the Knights survived. Bard left nine runners on base.

Wendt got the no-decision. He went 4.2 innings, giving up two runs and striking out two. Carafotes (0-1) took the loss. Schlosser went 3-for-4 with two RBI; Preston Gittelson, Fisher and Carafotes each had two hits.

In Game 2, the teams managed just four hits apiece. The Knights led 1-0 in the third when a sacrifice fly by Carafotes scored Quinn McInerney and tied it up.

In the fourth, Mount St. Mary scored on of all things - a balk - and that proved to be the game-winner. Kevin Duffy (Wallingford, CT) threw a complete game four-hitter, striking out six and walking two. Bard left seven runners on base.

Steve Marotta had an effective start for Bard, giving up one earned over four innings and striking out four. Jeff Goldrosen threw three innings of hitless relief. Fisher had two hits.

Bard will next host SUNY Polytechnic Institute in a doubleheader on Saturday, before making a Spring Break trip to the Mid-Atlantic. Follow Saturday's games live right here.