May 10, 2024

UW-Whitewater in control in the WIAC tournament

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In a game that came down to the wire and was decided by a diving catch for the final out by Ben Seibert, top-seeded Wittenberg defeated second-seeded and No. 2-ranked Denison 4-3 on Friday to advance to Sunday's North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament championship game. Denison made the Championship game a rematch with a 14-1 win over kenyon.
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UW-Whitewater advances to the championship round of the WIAC Tournament with a 10-6 win over UW-Stevens Point. The Warhawks had 10 runs on 12 hits in the win. The game started out as a defensive pitching battle, with the Warhawks getting six strikeouts over the first two innings to start things off. The Pointers didn't get a man on base until the top of the fourth and the Warhawks only had two in the same time. The Warhawks kick started their offense in the bottom of the fourth, with Andy Thies hitting in the first run. After the Pointers responded with a solo home run, closing the Warhawk lead to 2-1. A huge 5th inning for the Warhawks extended back the lead. UWW scored 5 runs on 4 hits, including a 2-run homer from Eli Frank and a solo bomb to right field from Cootway. The Pointers started to mount a small comeback, scoring 4-runs in the top of the 7th with the help of a 2-run homer. However, the Warhawk defense plus Cade Hansen on the mound tightened up to close out the 10-6 win. The Warhawks will face UW-La Crosse. The eagles won twice after an oppening day win to UW-Stevens Point. They defeated UW-Oshkosh 17-9 and then UW-Stevens Point 8-1.

It was a high scoring affair for Friday's elimination round of the 2024 SLIAC Baseball Tournament with a total of 54 combined runs scored over three games. The top seeded Spalding University Golden Eagles edged out Webster University in the winner's bracket game to lock up their fifth consecutive trip to the championship game, winning last year's title. Westminster, the #6 seed, topped Greenville University in the day's opening game before #2 seed Webster came from behind with a walk-off extra inning win over Westminster to close out the night. In a 12-11 win for Spalding over Webster, Slade West led the bottom of the 11th off with a single and after advancing on a wild pitch would come in to score on a Whitt Callahan single. Webster had to play another extra-inning game but this time came out on top. The Gorloks defeated Westminster (Mo.) 8-7. Both teams traded runs in the 7th before Webster evened the game up in the 8th with three runs including a two-run home run by Karl Peters. The Gorloks won the game when Parker Murrow laid down a two-out squeeze bunt with bases loaded. Elijah Rompala-Matthews threw five innings of relief, striking out 7 and picking up the win. In the late game Westminster staved off elimination with a 11-5 win over Greenville. Westminster put up five runs in the 6th to take the lead and finished the game with two runs in the 7th, one in the 8th, and two more in the 9th. In the game, Greenville's Landon Mokris hit his 19th home run of the season, tying the SLIAC single season record.

Western New England came away with another lopsided victory in Commonwealth Coast Conference tournament action, defeating the third-seeded Rams of Suffolk University by a final score of 12-2. Paul Villecco, John Bova, and Sean Jamieson led the Golden Bears offensively in the victory, combining to go 9-for-14 at the plate, collecting nine of Western New England's 12 RBIs. WNE slashed 14 hits in the win, grabbing double-digit hits in all four of Western New England's postseason games. Greg Nivison tossed five innings, earning his third win of the season, giving up just three hits and a run while striking out one. No. 1 nationally ranked and top-seeded Endicott (40-2) hosts fifth-seeded Western New England (24-19) on Saturday at noon in search of its third consecutive Commonwealth Coast Conference Championship. Endicott got herer after they topped second-seeded Roger Williams 4-1 on Friday afternoon. The Gulls pounced on the Hawks for two first-inning runs and didn't look back in the contest. Roger Williams University fell to No. 5 Western New England, 4-3, in a Commonwealth Coast Conference Elimination Game, with the Golden Bears knocking the Hawks out of the CCC Tournament.

Senior third baseman James Murphy hit a walk-off two-run home run in the 10th inning of Friday's Empire 8 Baseball Championship Tournament winners' bracket game, propelling the Cardinals past No. 4 seed Houghton, 5-3, and into the tournament's Championship Saturday. The Cardinals, now 2-0 in the double-elimination tournament, are a win away from clinching their fourth straight conference title and an automatic berth into the NCAA Division III baseball tournament. Murphy ultimately finished the day 2-for-5 with three RBI, driving in the first run of the game on an RBI groundout in the first inning to make it 1-0. That score would hold until the seventh innings, as senior pitcher Patrick McGuire worked 6.1 innings, allowing just four hits and striking out four until he ran into trouble in the seventh, giving up his only two earned runs of the game as the Highlanders jumped ahead, 2-1. Getting the job done in whatever way necessary was the mantra for Utica University on Friday. With backs to the wall, the Pioneers topped top-seeded Russell Sage College in 15 innings, 4-3, and fourth-seeded Houghton University, 11-5, in a pair of elimination games to win their way into Saturday's Empire 8 Championship.

Ithaca College will play for its third straight Liberty League championship tomorrow after the Bombers withstood a 13-inning marathon matchup with the University of Rochester on Friday afternoon at RPI and came away with a 3-2 victory in the second-straight walk-off win for the Bombers. Ithaca is now 30-9 on the season and will face the winner of Rochester and Union on Saturday. The Bombers tied the game at 2-2 in the seventh on an RBI double to right by Collin Feeney that plated Rothstein. Now with two runners in scoring position and one out, Brawdy was thrown out at home on a grounder to second base and a strikeout ended the inning. From there, it was a battle to see who would strike first offensively. Ithaca would be that team in the bottom of the 13th inning as Rothstein doubled off the right-center wall to bring in Colin Dunn for the game-winning run and IC's second straight walk-off win in the tournament. Dunn pinch ran for Pugliese, who led off the inning with a double to right. Sophomore Liam McIlroy set the single season home run record and junior Chris Suter struck out a career-high eight batters on 122 pitches to send Union College past Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 11-4, in the Liberty League Tournament on Friday morning at Robison Field. With the win, Union will play the University of Rochester in an elimination game. McIlroy homered twice in the win, including a grand slam, to bring his season total to 13 home runs and break Union's single season home run record set by Colin Kelly in 2018. Suter turned in a career performance for his sixth win of the season. The junior fanned eight and surrendered four runs, two earned, on eight hits and 122 pitches. After falling in a heartbreaking 13 innings a few hours earlier during the winners bracket,the University of Rochester stayed alive in the Liberty League Baseball Championship with a 10-5 victory over Union College on Friday evening at Robison Field at Karl Steffen Ballpark. Rochester's offense broke out, pounding 16 total hits, leading to the 10-run effort, propelling the 'Jackets into the championship series for the fourth time in the last five conference tournaments.

Coe College stayed unbeaten in the American Rivers Conference tournament on Saturday afternoon, taking down two-seeded Buena Vista 4-3 to advance to Saturday's Championship game. The Kohawks rode the arm of Ethan O'Donnell who pitched a gem, going 7.2 innings while allowing just three earned runs. The North Liberty native got some early run support and cruised through the opening seven innings before the Beavers struck in the eighth. Ryan Thoreson opened Coe's account in the second inning with a homer to right field before a pair of RBI from Jack Allison and Creighton Kreshel in the fourth. Tyce Johnson gave Coe a four-run lead with the eventual game-winning hit, launching a solo shot in the sixth. BVU managed to get three runs in the top of the eighth but Xander Cloudy shut the door on the Beavers, recording the final out in the eighth before earning the save in the ninth. Luther defeated Wartburg 4-3 to send them home and Loras did the same to Luther in the late game. Loras won 14-2.

The 2024 USA South Baseball Tournament best-of-three championship series is through its first game on the campus of N.C. Wesleyan as the top-seeded Battling Bishops used seven quality innings from starting pitcher Cord Butler to take game one, 8-3, over second-seeded Brevard. It was Brevard who struck first in its first at-bats with a run but that was quickly answered by two N.C. Wesleyan runs in the bottom of the first frame. In the second inning, the Tornados got another single run before the Battling Bishops answered with three of their own thanks to a three-run home run from Tyson Bass. With the score 6-3 in-favor of N.C. Wesleyan, Bass struck again in the bottom of the seventh inning with his second home run of the day, this time a two-run shot. Butler got the win on the mound for N.C. Welseyan by going seven innings, allowing three runs on six hits with ten strikeouts. For Brevard, CP Pyle, Logan Clark, and Colson Miller each had two hits for the Tornados. The second and, if necessary, third games will again take place at N.C. Wesleyan tomorrow, Saturday, May 11th, with the Battling Bishops needing one victory to claim the program's second consecutive and ninth all-time USA South tournament title. The Tornados will need two wins to grab their program's first championship.

The fourth-seeded Farmingdale State traveled to No. 1 St. Joseph's-Long Island on Friday afternoon for their first game in the four-team, double elimination portion of the 2024 Skyline Conference Championship and earned a 6-1 victory over the hosts. The score remained 4-1 until the seventh when senior Daniel Deutsch recorded a two-out RBI single to score Tyleer DiRocco and extend the FSC lead to four. In the eighth, the Golden Eagles loaded the bases with two outs before DiRocco moved to the mound and struck out the next batter to escape the jam. He stayed in to pitch the bottom of the ninth, with FSC leading, 6-1, and tallied a strike out and two pop ups to earn his third save of the season. USMMA defeated Manhattaville 8-4.

The second-seeded Pomona-Pitzer Colleges Sagehens advanced over top-seeded University of La Verne, 15-0, on Friday afternoon to reach the 2024 SCIAC Baseball Tournament championship game(s). The Sagehens steadily built up a 4-0 lead with two runs in the second inning and one each in the third and fourth before exploding for seven in the fifth stanza. Hannoh Seo shut down the conference's most efficient offense over the regular season with eight strikeouts against just two hits and a pair of walks over six innings. Eddie Rosemont picked up the three-inning save with a trio of punchouts against just one hit and walk. Meanwhile, 2024 SCIAC Athlete of the Year Isaac Kim set a new tournament single-game record with eight RBI and tied the hits record with a 5-for-5 day that also included a walk, double and home run. Earlier in the day Claremont Mudd Scripps eliminated Cal Lutheran 10-9.

After two complete games of the 2024 NWC Baseball tournament, top-seeded Whitman and second-seeded Willamette captured victories and will face off on Saturday. Three-seeded Whitworth and fourth-seeded Pacific will meet up in an elimination game. Pacific’s CJ Colyer gave the Boxers a three run lead heading into the bottom of the ninth having hit a home run in the top of the sixth and the top of the ninth. The Whitman Blues responded with four runs to earn the walk-off win in the bottom of the ninth. Brandon Ting started off the inning with a base hit for the Blues before Halen Otte reached base by a hit by pitch. Back-to-back walks to Nate Korahais and Mateus Conaway got the bases loaded for the Blues. Nick Teng and Beck Maguire were both walked to tie the game. With bases still loaded, Garrett Runyan hit a single that would secure the win for the Blues. In game two on Friday afternoon, Willamette was off to a quick lead that they would never lose. Rocco Granucci earned an RBI in the first to lead off the game. Whitworth earned their single run in the second as Aaron Clogston scored. Willamette responded in the fifth as Carl Lawson hit a single for Jeff Hoffman to score. A single by Clint Walker would get the Bearcats to a 4-1 lead before Wyatt Thames’ single in the top of the eighth to earn the Bearcats’ fifth point.

Westminster sophomore Josh Reed hit a two-run single with two outs in the bottom of the eighth to complete a three-run rally, as the Titans came back for a 5-4 victory in Game G over Allegheny. Westminster stays alive to play in Game I at 6 pm against Grove City. Carter Chinn was the spark for the Westminster offense, going 3-for-3 with a walk and two RBIs, while senior Jake Dockum two hits and scored twice. Allegheny finished with 12 hits in the defeat, including three for Ryan Dougherty and junior Matt Jennings, who extended his hitting streak to 34 games and on-base streak to 42 games. Top-seeded Washington & Jefferson College backed a stellar pitching performance with a 17-hit output to down second-seeded Grove City College by a 12-5 score in the winner's bracket final Friday to earn a spot in the Presidents' Athletic Conference Tournament title round at Ross Memorial Park in Washington, Pa. W&J, who improves to 31-12 overall, will play for its fifth-straight PAC title on Saturday. W&J has won 15-straight PAC Tournament games dating back to the start of the 2019 season. W&J will be aiming for its 16th PAC title overall. The Presidents will face Grove City, who earned an 8-4 win over fifth-seeded Westminster in Friday night's finale. Grove City, who has won three conference titles, is attempting to claim its first title since 2008. The Wolverines are 27-13 overall in the 2024 season.

Day one of the AMCC Baseball Championship Tournament concludes with #2 Penn State Behrend and #4 Alfred State College picking up wins Friday morning to advance in the winners bracket. #6 La Roche University went 1-1 on the day, while top seed Mount Aloysius College went 0-2 and has been eliminated from the tournament. #4 Alfred State defeated #1 Mount Aloysius, 11-2. Ryan Bailey got the start and the win after pitching 9.0 innings, only allowing one earned run on five hits, with five strikeouts. Tyler Korsky went 3-4 on the day with an RBI, while Joshua Gardner, Tyler Petery, and Anthony Snyder came away with two RBI each. #2 Penn State Behrend defeated #6 La Roche, 5-4. Behrend got back on the board in the bottom of the fifth when Silvio Ionadi singled with bases loaded to score Spencer Deitz, making the score 5-2 after five innings of play. The Lions continued to chip away in the bottom of the seventh when Dylan Barnes scored on Ciocco single up the middle, as the Redhwaks hung on to a 4-3 lead going into the eighth. The Lions turned things up in the bottom of the ninth when when Dietz got to first on a single to left field and advanced to second on a passed ball. Barnes doubled down the left field line, bringing home Dietz to tie the game at four-all with one out. Curtis King entered the game to pinch run for Barnes, advancing to third on a wild pitch. Ionadi singled up the middle, plating King and giving the Behrend Lions the walk-off, 5-4, win. #6 La Roche defeated #1 Mount Aloysius, 8-4. The Redhawks broke the game open in the top of the seventh when they brought in four runs to make the score 7-4. Mount Aloysius added one more run in the bottom of the seventh and Redhawks matched it in the top of the eighth to set the final, 8-4.

After winning their tournament games on Friday, Bridgewater State and Westfield State are continuing on in the MASCAC Baseball Tournament which continues on Saturday. No. 6 seed Worcester State rallied for four runs in the ninth, but Sean Clark threw out Nate Thurber at the plate on an RBI single by Anthony Iamarone to record the third out and preserve an 8-6 victory for No. 4 seed Westfield State in the semifinals of the MASCAC Baseball Tournament. Bridgewater State University is one win away from a third straight Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament championship. The second-seeded Bears are the only unbeaten team remaining in the double-elimination tournament after defeating top-seeded Salem State University, 5-3, on Friday afternoon. Sophomore Trey Yesu continued his strong pitching, giving up three runs (two earned) and five hits in eight innings to improve to 6-2. Nick Reiser closed the win, allowing just a hit in the ninth inning to record his second save.

Three teams remain in the hunt for the 2024 Little East Conference Championship Tournament title following the third day of competition at UMass Boston’s Monan Park Thursday. UMass Dartmouth went 2-0 on the day to advance to the championship round, and will face the either the host Beacons or two-time defending LEC champion Eastern Connecticut. Powered by a phenomenal three-hit shutout from grad student pitcher Anthony Keefe, UMass Dartmouth defeated Eastern Connecticut, 4-0 on Friday. Keefe continued to dominate on the mound in the late innings and closed out the game, retiring six of the last seven ECSU batters. The Corsairs took the 4-0 victory and move on to the winners bracket final against UMass Boston.The Corsairs move on to face top-seeded UMass Boston this afternoon, while the Warriors will wait to face Keene State in the nightcap.In the nightcap ECSU defeated Keene State 8-2. Graduate righty Nathan Furino matched the pitching domination of Keefe earlier in the day when he recorded his 19th career win with a masterful five-hitter – one of the most efficient post-season complete games in program history – that kept the team alive in the losers' bracket. For Eastern to record its 12th LEC tournament championship – the most by any institution – the win over Keene State would need to be the first of four in a span of three days. In the middle game of the day, powered by another phenomenal pitching performance for the Corsairs - this time by senior Ryan Qualey, UMass Dartmouth upset the top-seed and host team UMass Boston, 12-1 on Friday. The Corsairs advance to the Championship Round of the Little East Conference Tournament on Saturday. Meanwhile, the Beacons will play the winner of tonight's Eastern Connecticut and Keene State game.

The University of Chicago couldn't do much on offense in game one against Beloit but put up 20 runs off 20 hits in game two against Cornell to stay alive in the postseason. Beloit (23-15, 14-10 MWC) was first up on the docket for University of Chicago (18-23, 16-8 MWC) as each team began their Midwest Conference tournament journey. The contest began with three scoreless frames on both sides of the field, but everything would change in the fourth. The Maroons would give up seven runs to the Buccaneers in that fourth frame, and while there was still plenty of time to mount a comeback, UChicago just couldn't put anything together to get back into the contest. In the Marron's second contest, a run from the Rams in both the bottom of the fourth as well as the fifth tied the game but two UChicago runs in the sixth gave them the lead once more. Cornell refused to go away and managed to push the score to 7-6 before an explosive seventh inning rolled around. The Maroons plated 13 runs in the top of the seventh but the most notable thing about the feat they accomplished is that each run came across after they had already registered two outs. 19 batters came to the plate in a stanza where they also had 10 hits and still left three on base as the Maroons kept their season alive with a very notable 20-6 seven inning victory.

Colby and Middlebury the top two seeds from the East and West Divisions, respectively, earned wins on the first day of the NESCAC Baseball Championship weekend at Sol Gittelman Park on the campus of Tufts University. Day 2 begins with Amherst and Tufts squaring off at 10:30 a.m. while Colby and Middlebury play at 2 p.m. in the double-elimination portion of the tournament. Colby took a 2-0 lead in the bottom half of the fourth as Patrick McConnel knocked out a two-run single. Amherst cut the lead in half in the top of the sixth when J. Dove doubled to drive in J. Sampedro. Colby answered with two more runs in the bottom half of the frame and added a pair of runs in the bottom of the seventh to increase its lead to 6-1. The Mules blew the game open with a five-run eighth inning en route to the 11-3 win. Clint Flippo and McConnell knocked out three hits each for the Mules and McConnell drove in four RBI. Derek Woods pitched 7.2 innings to earn the win and Matthew Scibilio picked up his sixth save of the year. Middlebury used a seven-run second inning to open a 10-1 lead on Tufts and Owen Tross pitched a complete game with 137 pitches to lead the Panthers to a 12-4 victory over the Jumbos. Baker Angstamn and Lucas Flemming recorded three hits each with Angstamn adding three RBI and two runs to lead Middlebury's 13-hit effort. Kyle McCausland's RBI single off the wall in left field sparked the second-inning rally. Flemming's RBI single scored Andrew Ashley to cap the seven-run outburst. Tross tossed his first complete game of the year, marking his sixth victory for Middlebury on the mound.

No. 3 nationally ranked and top-seeded Baldwin Wallace University defeated second-seeded Otterbein University in game three of the Ohio Athletic Conference tournament by a final score of 5-4 on Fisher Field. BW (35-7) was led by senior utility player Joey Marousek as he notched two runs, including the game-winner at the bottom of the seventh inning. The Yellow Jackets were also led by senior infielder Nick Clark, senior catcher Mark Mohnickey Jr. and sophomore outfielder Dennis Ritlinger-Nirider as they each tallied a run throughout the duration of the game. Cael Magill delivered a pinch hit, two-run single in the bottom of the eighth inning as Marietta College defeated Ohio Northern, 4-2, Friday afternoon eliminating the Polar Bears from the Ohio Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament. With the win, the Pioneers set up a rematch with Otterbein. Jared Bees tossed four-plus innings of shutout relief as Marietta College exacted a measure of revenge on Otterbein University with a 7-2 win over the Cardinals Friday afternoon. Marietta improves to 23-18 on the season and will face top-seeded Baldwin Wallace University (35-7) for the OAC Tournament Championship on Saturday. The Pioneers will need to beat Baldwin Wallace twice to claim the championship. First pitch is scheduled for 12:00 p.m. Otterbein finishes its season with a 26-15 overall record.

Immaculata University defeated No. 1 seed Marymount 9-0 to advance to the Atlantic East Conference Finals for the fourth consecutive year. Immaculata will play Cabrini tomorrow at 1:00 PM. Cabrini eliminated Marymount 5-4 in 10 inings. Immaculata was led by senior starter Jason Hughes who threw seven scoreless innings allowing three hits and struck out eight to raise his record on the season to 5-4.

North Park and Millikin will meet in the CCIW winners bracket finale. North Park did their job on Friday afternoon, earning a 4-1 win over the six seeded Carthage Firebirds to continue CCIW Tournament play. Senior left hander Bobby Bartlett cut the Firebirds up, posting a season-high 10 strikeouts in his seven-inning, three-hit win. Sophomore Kevin Ayeski closed things out the last two innings to pick up the save with shutout work, fanning one. Sophomore right fielder Joe Perona led the Vikings at the plate going 3-for-4 with a run scored while sophomore DH Carlos Martinez was perfect on the day, 3-for-3 with an RBI and sac bunt. Perona also swiped three bases while junior center fielder Alex DiVito and senior second baseman Justin Swanson added one each. Millikin opened with a 12-2 seven inning victory over Augustana College in Chicago, Illinois. The Big Blue scored in each of the first four innings. Millikin scored one in the first, five in the second and three in each the third and fourth innings. Millikin pounded out 11 hits and drew nine walks. Augustana went 1-1 on the day and will play another elimination game on Saturday against the loser of the winner bracket game.

University of Lynchburg junior Quinn Madden homered twice, including a go-ahead home run in the ninth, during Lynchburg's 7-6 win over Roanoke on Friday in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Tournament. Roanoke later tied up the game with two runs in the seventh, but Madden's second homer of the day sealed the deal for Lynchburg in the top of the ninth. Colin McGuire, who entered in the eighth, was actually the one to put the finishing touches on the game as he retired all four of the batters he faced. Lynchburg will seek its 11th ODAC championship and first back-to-back crown since winning five straight from 1980-1984. With the Shenandoah's playoff lives up against the wall, the Hornets and Randolph-Macon Yellow Jackets faced off in the first elimination game of the second-weekend series. In an exciting elimination game, Jacob Bell went the first six innings giving up seven hits and seven runs after the Hornets built a 10-0 en route to a 10-7 win. Joey Mitchell after suffering the heartbreaking loss in game one, came back to throw three scoreless to secure the save. Every Hornet picked up a hit in the game five Hornets having two hits. Chandler Ballenger and Gavin Horning each had three RBI with Connor Houser picking up two RBI.

Elizabethtown grabbed their 30th win of the season in a 12 inning marathon 8-7 win against Susquehanna in game one of the Landmark Conference Championship Tournament. Riley Thomas walked it off in the 12th with two outs on an RBI-single. Mason Woolwine led the Blue Jays going 4 for 6 with three RBIs, and two doubles. Quinten Perilli recorded his 100th career RBI and went 2 for 5 with four runs. Zach Silfies earned his seventh win of the season as he pitched four innings while striking out three. Scranton was leading Catholic 21-4 in the late innings in a game suspened and will be completed on Saturday.

The second day of the 2024 Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament wrapped up on Friday night with an instant classic game between the #1 Hanover College Panthers and the #2 Transylvania Pioneers. At the end of the night, only #2 Transylvania remains unbeaten in tournament play. The day started with #2 Transylvania taking the field for the first time in the tournament, after their Thursday night game was postponed due to weather. The Pioneers would use the extra rest to power past #3 Rose-Hulman in the first game of the day, winning by a score of 7-2. Weather would not be a factor on Friday, as there were beautiful blue skies and great baseball weather throughout the day in Kokomo. Two elimination games would follow, and would start with #5 Anderson rolling past #6 Franklin. The third game of the day was another elimination game, seeing the one-loss #3 Rose-Hulman Fightin' Engineers getting past a pesky #4 Mount St. Joseph. Those games outcomes have setup a Saturday noon first pitch between #5 Anderson and #3 Rose-Hulman. The winner of that game on Saturday will stay on the field and take on #1 Hanover at 3:30 PM in an elimination game. Saturday will showcase at least two games, with a potential third game. The top seeded Hanover Panthers took the field for the first time Friday in the final game of the evening, and faced #2 Transylvania. The Panthers took a 6-1 lead into the ninth inning, when everything would suddenly change on the back of a Henry Mitcham grand slam in the top of the inning to tie the game and send it into extra innings. The Pioneers were not done scoring runs, and they tacked on another six in the top of the 10th, only to see Hanover threaten with some of their own late game heroics. When it was all done, Transylvania held on for a 12 - 10 victory and the advantage of sitting atop the winners bracket. They will now sit and wait to see how Saturday morning plays out for the teams in the losers bracket.

Top-seeded St. Olaf College advanced to the championship round of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Playoffs with an 11-9 victory over fourth-seeded Saint Mary's University after falling early in the day by a 14-2 score to second-seeded Bethel University on Friday at CHS Field. To start the day, Bethel (24-14) used four multi-run innings – including an eight-run sixth – to deal St. Olaf (29-13) a 14-2 defeat in seven innings and advance to the championship round. Later in the day, the Oles used home runs from sophomore Breckin Hadley and sen ior Joey Glampe to build a 10-3 lead and held off Saint Mary's (21-18) in an elimination game to stay alive. With the 1-1 day, St. Olaf will need to defeat Bethel twice on Saturday to secure the playoff title for the fourth time in program history.

Third-seeded Babson College scored eight runs in the fourth inning and five relievers combined to allow just one run over the final 4.1 innings as it went on to defeat the second-seeded Coast Guard Academy, 12-10, in game three of the NEWMAC Tournament on Thursday afternoon at Nitchman Field. Graduate student John Nowak hit a three-run homer an knocked in a season-high five runs, senior Tanner Santos was 2-for-4 with three runs scored and graduate student Luke Tanner and senior Ike Kiely both doubled and scored twice while recording two hits apiece for the Beavers. Fellow senior Jack Julian also had two hits and classmate Jimmy Weick improved to 1-1 with the win in relief. First year left-handed pitcher Aidan Cardoza allowed two runs in a complete game victory and senior shortstop Mike Maher knocked in a pair of runs to lead number four seed Wheaton College (Mass.) over top-seeded and No. 4 nationally-ranked Salve Regina University, 5-2, this afternoon in the second round of the NEWMAC Championship Tournament at in Newport, R.I. The Lyons win their sixth straight game and improve to 23-12 on the season, while the Seahawks, who are ranked in the most recent D3baseball.com national poll, dip to 32-7. Wheaton advances to play number three seed Babson College, a 12-10 winner over second-seeded United States Coast Guard Academy, in the winner’s bracket game on Saturday, May 11 at 12:30 p.m. in Newport. Salve Regina will play Coast Guard on the same day at 9:30 a.m.