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| Nationally-ranked St. John Fisher College took both ends of a doubleheader on Friday, May 14 to advance in the Empire 8 Championship after sweeping fourth-seeded Keuka College at Dugan Yard. Houghton and Utica split their two game set and will decide who will face SJF next weekend on Saturday. St. John Fisher athletics photo |
La Roche University swept Alfred State at home in the conference semifinal Friday afternoon to advance to their ninth straight AMCC championship. The Redhawks dominated the Pioneers 14-1 in game one but had to fight back in game two. After trailing 5-2 in the top of the sixth, LRU scored six runs in the final three innings, capped off by a Dylan Urban walk-off sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth to take game two, 8-7. #1 seed La Roche will host #2 seed Penn St. Behrend for the best-of-three championship series on Wednesday.
Drew Ryback threw a complete-game victory and Victor Cruz drove in four runs and scored two on the day as top-seeded Rowan swept fifth-seeded Kean in the semifinal series of the NJAC Baseball Championship Tournament, 10-4 and 7-1, at Sandcastle Stadium. The wins advance the ninth-ranked Profs to the conference championship series against William Paterson next weekend. Ryback (6-1), the NJAC Pitcher of the Year, recorded four strikeouts in the opener in tossing his third complete game of the season. Eli Atiya (7-1) earned the win in the second game as he struck out eight and allowed just one run. No. 20 William Paterson (27-6, 14-4 NJAC) punched its ticket with a 4-2, 11-6 semifinal best-of-three sweep of sixth-seeded The College of New Jersey.
Keystone College defeated visiting Wilson College 13-6 in the opening game of the 2021 CSAC Championship series on Friday afternoon at Christy Mathewson Field. With the win, the Giants improve to 20-4 on the year & are now one victory away from the program's 16th-straight conference title. Keystone collected 15 hits on the day & enjoyed a 6-run outburst in the 1st, followed by four more in the 6th. Vince Montone went 3-for-5 with three runs & two RBI while Adam Kelly enjoyed a 2-for-4 day with three runs, a double & solo homer to left field in the 5th. Jared Rowley earned the start & the victory, going 5.2 innings, allowing four hits & one earned run while striking out three.
Anderson, Earlham, Franklin, and Transylvania all won on the first day of the Heartland baseball tournament. The Grizzlies (24-12) moved one step closer to the championship round with a 12-7 win over the Lions (12-24) to take a 1-0 series lead. Franklin got contributions up and down the lineup and a dominant relief performance from one of their top arms to take the win. Alex Reinoehl (7-2) was stellar out of the bullpen in five shutout innings, allowing two hits and walking one while fanning a career-high seven batters. Sparks allowed four hits and fanned one over four-plus innings as the game one starter. Sullivan paced the offense with three hits, three runs scored, two triples and two RBI. Each of Franklin's 1-4 hitters had two hits on the afternoon.
The fifth-ranked and top-seeded Salisbury University opened up the 2021 Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference Tournament semifinals with a flourish, dispatching the Southern Virginia Knights, 13-2, in Game 1 of the best-of-three series on Friday afternoon at Sea Gull Baseball Stadium. In the second pod, the University of Mary Washington scored runs in each of the first five innings in building a 10-5 lead and held on for a 10-9 win over St. Mary's College. The Eagles then fell to Christopher Newport 14-8 in the late game. The middle game featured CNU and St. Mary's in which St. mary's was eliminated 9-6 by the Captains. CNU as the lone undefeated team will take on one-loss Mary Washington on Saturday.
Hope College used a record-setting offensive explosion Friday afternoon to clinch a berth in the championship series of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Baseball Tournament. The Flying Dutchmen scored in all but one inning, defeating the Britons, 24-14, on Friday at Boeve Stadium to win Pool B of the MIAA tournament with a perfect 3-0 record. Hope pounded out 23 hits off eight Albion College pitchers. The 24 runs set an MIAA tournament single-game record, breaking the previous mark of 18 scored by Calvin University in an 18-2 win over Hope in 2017. The Dutchmen will face Adrian who outscored their opposition 25-5 as they also swept their Pod.
Behind an early offensive barrage, Saint Vincent kept its season alive by defeating Franciscan 13-4 in the Presidents' Athletic Conference Championship Tournament at Washington & Jefferson College's Ross Memorial Park. Saint Vincent belted 20 hits, led by a 4-for-5 effort from Jordan Sabol and three-hit days from both TJ Dailey and Matt Evans. In all, 10 different players recorded at least one hit for the Bearcats, while seven tallied multiple hits. Dailey drove in five RBIs and Justin Wright three, while Sabol and Evans each scored three times. The loss ended the season for the Barons (16-19), while the Bearcats (16-17) took on Grove City in another must-win game in the late game on Friday. Under the lighte of Ross Memorial Field, St. Vincent earned a spot in the PAC finals with a 5-3 win over the Wolverines. Grove City fell into the elimination round with a 1-0 loss to top seeded Washington & Jefferson.
After a dominating 12-0 win by the Husson Eagles (20-6) in game one, the Thomas College Terriers (12-12) battled back in game two holding a lead over the Eagles for the majority of the game until Husson tied up the score in the seventh inning, 6-6. A huge ninth inning rally helped Husson break open the floodgates, sending four Eagles home to help capture the North Atlantic Conference East Division Title. Husson rallied four more runs home in the top of the ninth to take over a four-run lead before Thomas started a rally of their own. The Terriers were able to send home Gleason to cut the score to 10-7 before Ryan Robb stepped onto the mound to close and shut down the final batter for the Husson win.
Top-seeded Pacific won for the second time in two days to stay unbeaten in the NWC tournament. They defeated Willamette to earn a spot in the title round and await the team that emerges from the elimination round.
Benedictine University and Illinois Tech played a back-and-forth contest that found Illinois Tech on top 8-7 when the game ended to open the NACC South Division Tournament. Aurora won narrowly over Rockford, 3-1 and will play the Scarley Hawks in the winners finale. In the North Division Pod, Concordia (Wisc.) and Marian were winners. The Marian offense wasted no time putting up 13 runs in the first three innings and they needed all of them as Lakeland battered the Sabre pitching staff for 12 runs. Marion went on to win 18-12. CUW defeated MSOE 4-2.
After dropping the opener against Spalding, Fontbonne University took care of business in the elimination game against Iowa Wesleyan to advance to its pod finals tomorrow morning. They will match up with Spalding to decide the Pod champion. In the other Pod, Webster is the lone unbeaten team and awill play Westminster (Mo.) as they defeated Greenville 3-2 in the elimination finale.
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On Senior Day, Heidelberg University swept Wilmington College in front of an energetic crowd. The Student Princes picked up a run-rule win in the opener, 12-2. They followed that up with a comfortable 8-3 win in the nightcap. HU improved to 21-15-1 overall, 18-14-1 in the conference standings. Heidelberg has clinched a spot in next week's six-team OAC Tournament. Heidelberg ended game one in the bottom of the seventh. Chris Bell blistered a line-drive home run to left to start the inning. HU loaded the bases with no outs, then invoked the run rule with a walk by Reece McNeely. Ryan Hackworth (5-1) got the game two win, throwing five innings and allowing one run.
North Central College clinched its record-breaking sixth-consecutive College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin regular season championship outright on Friday with a 10-4 win over North Park University, becoming the first team in conference history to achieve the feat. Crowned regular season champions every season since 2015, Head coach Ed Mathey also ties Carthage College's Augie Schmidt IV for most conference titles among active CCIW coaches with his ninth overall conference championship (1994, 1996, 1998, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021). North Central earns the No. 1 seed in next week's CCIW Tournament, hosted at Zimmerman Stadium and Wheaton College's Lee Pfund Stadium, as the 32 wins this season are third-most in a single season in program history. The Cardinals (32-6, 26-4 CCIW) had to dig themselves out of an early 3-0 hole, as a pair of solo homeruns off Luke Lamm, the first two allowed this season, highlighted a strong first two innings for the Vikings. They did so with four runs in the third and fourth innings for a 8-2 lead that held up.
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