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| Senior right-hander Hayden Snelsire tied a program record with 17 strikeouts over eight innings, and junior Myles Webb had two extra-base hits and knocked in four, as Randolph-Macon defeated St. John Fisher 10-3. Snelsire (8-2) allowed five hits, three walks and two runs. He had multiple strikeouts in each inning except for one punchout in the first. Snelsire fanned three in the second and third innings. Randolph-Macon athletics photo |
Late in the day it was Mitchell who celbrated on their home field with a 6-5 win over Tufts. Junior shortstop Angel Galindez paced the Mariners at the plate, finishing with two hits and three RBI, including a two-run single with two outs in the top of the eighth inning which tied the game at 5-5. A ninth inning hit-by-pitch gave Mitchell the winning margin as Justin Adorno took the pitch to the body to force in the winning run.
Top seeded Cortland, Wheaton (Mass.) and Johns Hopkins won early games but it was the fourth seeds that flexed their muscles early. Bridgewater State, Lewis & Clark Susquehanna and TCNJ all defeated their top seeded opponents in the opening round of the NCAA D-III baseball playoffs.
Regional host Bridgewater State opened its regional with an upset victory on Friday. The fourth-seeded Bears, behind the complete-game pitching of Matt Josselyn, sent top-seeded and nationally ranked Endicott to the loser's bracket. Josselyn, a graduate student, scattered seven hits and improved to 9-2 as Bridgewater State handed the Gulls a 4-2 setback at Alumni Park. It was the first NCAA tournament win for Bridgewater State since 2011 when it defeated Wheaton College, 6-3, in Harwich, Massachusetts.
Susquehanna began their weekend in fine fashion, winning the opening game of their NCAA Regional round against hosts and number one seed Arcadia. Unleashing an onslaught of offense, the River Hawks compiled 16 hits with seven going for extra bases enroute to a 14-9 win. Tied after eight, both teams would miss their first chance to find the game-winner in the ninth. Susquehanna would have no problems finding offense in extra innings, with the River Hawks reclaiming the lead in the top of the 10th through a five-run, three-hit inning. Arcadia would get two runners on thanks to back-to-back walks to start the inning, but Landon Ness would enter to get the final two outs, stifling the threat and clinching the result. The River Hawks will face Rowan. In game two of the regional, Zach Grace scattered six hits and Jason Morgan went 3-for-5 with three RBI to help Rowan to a 12-3 win over Brockport.
TCNJ trailed 4-3 at Shenandoah after three innings, but the Lions put up crooked numbers in three of the next four innings and cruised to a 22-9 win against the host Hornets. Jack Felipe had just one hit, but it was a grand slam that really put the game away in the fifth, taking an 11-5 lead and putting it out of reach. Mike LaGravenis had four hits and scored four runs from the top spot in the TCNJ order as the Lions improved to 24-22 on the season. It was Shenandoah's eighth loss in 46 games.
Brett Pierson and Brayden Nomura limited Birmingham-Southern to just four singles and Lewis & Clark College hit four home runs to earn a 7-1 win over the Panthers in the first game of the 2023 NCAA Division III Baseball Regional. Lewis & Clark jumped out to a 1-0 lead early and never trailed in winning the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament game. The win also marked the program's first win over a nationally-ranked team since April 13, 2008 and put this year's team in a tie for the program record for wins in a single-season with 31. Northwest Conference Player of the Year Jack Thomson had two of the biggest hits of the game. He finished 3-5 with two runs and four RBI and hit two of the team's four home runs. With his three hits, Thomson moved into a tie for first in program history with 194 career hits.Juniors Luke Bass (2-5) and Jakob Ghammachi (1-4) each added solo home runs for Lewis & Clark.
Dylan Beers and Justin Patsey combined to allowed two runs and Matthew Krafft went 4-for-5 with three RBI and two runs scored as top-seeded Cortland defeated fourth-seeded St. Joseph's (L.I.), 9-2, in the opening game of the NCAA Division III Cortland, N.Y. Regional at Wallace Field. Beers upped his record to 9-1 with five and two thirds innings of six-hit ball. He struck out nine batters, including eight in the first four innings, and he walked two hitters. He allowed two runs in the top of the fifth, after Cortland had taken a 5-0 lead, on a Paul Gugliuzzo two-out, two-run double. Gugliuzzo and Phil Krpata each finished 3-for-5 for the Golden Eagles.
Top-ranked Johns Hopkins broke open a tight game with an eight-run third inning and the Blue Jays hit eight home runs in a 23-9 win over Penn State Altoona in the opening game at Babb Field. After the Lions scratched across single runs in the first and second innings to grab an early 2-1 lead, the Blue Jays exploded for eight two-out runs in the bottom of the third to turn the one-run deficit into a 9-2 lead that was never seriously threatened. Johns Hopkins tied the NCAA Division III Tournament record with eight home runs in the victory. This is the third time a team has hit eight home runs in an NCAA game.
It was the NEWMAC Player and Pitcher of the Year that led top-seeded Wheaton (Mass.) over fourth-seeded Husson, 11-1, today at Alumni Field on the campus of host Mitchell in New London, Conn. Senior Cavan Brady was 4-for-4 with a walk and three runs batted in and sophomore starting pitcher Ryan McCarroll allowed just a run and struck out eight in seven and a third innings.
For some games, nine innings were not enough to determine a winner. Along with Susquehanna's 10 inning win over host Arcadia, Johnston & Wales needed more than one extra inning to move into the winners bracket. Freshman Jack Obert drove in the go-ahead run in the top of the 11th to propel the Johnson & Wales to a thrilling 12-11 extra-innings win over Middlebury. Sophomore Trevor Juan collected five hits and four RBI – including one in the Wildcats three-run 11th inning – as JWU moved into the winner's bracket and will face Bridgewater State. Trinity (Texas) also needed overtime to advance with a 13-10 win over Pacific. A tenth inning grand slam gave the Tigers the winning runs.
Eight games were decided by a single run but the Lynchburg Hornets came up with the only walk-off win of the day. Hornet freshman Brandon Garcia got the walk-off hit against Lebanon Valley with a liner down the right field line, scoring Jackson Harding and lifting No. 6 Lynchburg over the Flying Dutchmen 2-1 in the 10th inning. Both teams scored a single run in the first and from there on it was an old-fashion pitchers' duel as Zack Potts, Lynchburg's program leader in wins, toed the slab facing off with Lebanon Valley's ace Tommy Moore, Jr. Both pitchers pitched through the eighth inning but neither starter pitched to a decision.
Marietta erupted for eight runs in the fifth inning and then held off a spirited Adrian comeback attempt in the NCAA Division III Regional Tournament. The Pioneers held on to beat Adrian 11-10 and advance into the winner's bracket. The Etta Express got rolling in the bottom of fifth inning sending 13 batters to the plate. The Pioneers would need every one of those runs as Adrian scored four runs in the seventh and two more in the eighth to get within a run, 11-10. Gabe Torres retired Adrian in order in the ninth to secure the win.
Case Western Reserve junior third baseman Zack Carinci and first-year second baseman Jasiah Harris each hit three-run home runs and junior southpaw Reece Marley allowed just two runs over six innings to lead the Spartans to a 16-2 win over Mary Washington. Harris drove in four runs during the game, finishing the contest two-for-six with four RBIs including the three-run home run, and extending his hitting streak to 16-straight games. Carinci stretched his program-record hitting streak to 32 games, going three-for-four with four RBIs and a three-run home run.
Nick Falter came on to get the final two outs of the game, getting Miles Souza to fly out to shallow center in the top of the ninth to finish Denison's 8-7 win against Beloit in a home regional at Denison. That came after an epic at-bat in which Evan Zenger fouled off about a half-dozen two-strike pitches before lining a single to left-center to extend the game and bring the tying run to second. Beloit had scored four in the sixth and two more in the seventh to take a 7-6 lead before J. Welsch tied it up with a solo shot in the bottom of the seventh and the Big Red scratched out the go-ahead run in the eighth when Owen Wilson got hit by a pitch, moved up on a wild pitch, went to third on a grounder and scored on Eric Colaco's infield single.
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| Ithaca opened with a dominant 11-2 victory over No. 14 ECSU at Wallace Field on Friday afternoon. The Bombers are now 29-14 on the season and will play No. 22 Cortland tomorrow at 12 p.m. for a trip to the regional final. Ithaca athletics photo |
Baldwin Wallace held off Spalding in a first round game of the NCAA Regional Tournament hosted by Denison on Big Red Field. BW (32-10), who won 4-3, was led at the plate by senior All-American infielder Luke Vonderhaar who went 1-for-4 at the plate with a solo home run in the bottom of the first. On the mound, senior All-Ohio Athletic Conference right-handed pitcher Garrett Miller who went eight innings allowing two runs on six hits and three strikeouts.
Salve Regina dealt Keystone a 10-0 loss in the first game of the regional hosted by Misericordia. Salve Regina scored the first run of the regional off an error in the second inning and remained that way until the bottom of the seventh inning when the Seahawks scored nine runs to bust the game wide open and ultimately give Salve Regina the win.
Misericordia advanced to the winner's bracket final of the NCAA Regional Tournament with a 10-7 win over Washington & Jefferson. After falling behind 3-0 in the top of the second, the Cougars scored seven runs over the next three innings. The margin of victory came in a three-run seventh after the Presidents had made the contest a one-run game.
A late push moved second-ranked Salisbury past Penn State-Harrisburg 6-2 to open thieir best-of-five NCAA Regionals in Harrisburg, Pa. The Seagulls used a four-run eighth inning to take down the Lions in Game One with two games on Saturday and if needed gams on Sunday. Jimmy Adkins (5-0) tossed his seventh career complete game, limiting the nation's second-best scoring offense to two runs (one earned) on nine hits. Adkins walked none and struck out seven on a season-high 127 pitches, going the distance for the first time since the opening game of the 2022 College World Series against UW-Stevens Point.
Game one of the 2023 NCAA Division III Baseball Regional Tournament between the Spartans of Aurora and John Carroll lived up to the pregame hype with strong pitching, defense and timely hitting on both sides. AU defeated John Carroll 3-2 in a game played in 1:59 with the Spartans coming from behind to win. Justin Sartori hit a solo home run in the bottom of the eighth inning which proved to be the difference while Jack Fisher tossed 8-1/3 innings of ball for the win.
A pair of three-run innings highlighted by two-run home runs powered No. 15 UW-Stevens Point past No. 17 Augustana by a 6-4 final in the NCAA Tournament Regional opening game on Friday. Kamden Oliver broke up a scoreless tie in the fourth with a two-run opposite field home run. He had two hits, three RBI and two runs scored on the day. Brenden Canterbury belted a two-run home run an inning later in what proved to the be the difference. He also scored twice with two hits and two RBI.
UW-La Crosse opened with a 10-0 win over Bethany Lutheran at Copeland Park. Isaiah Katz and Alex Mach combined on the shutout, UWL's second shutout in NCAA Division III tournament history. The Eagles earned a 10-0 win over Saint John's University (Minn.) in the 2016 regional. Katz (7-0) earned the win Friday, going 7.0 innings, allowing three hits and one walk while striking out 12. The 12 strikeouts tied his career-high. Mach went 2.0 innings, recording six strikeouts.
Bethel had played Buena Vista three times earlier in the regular season campaign in February and went 1-2 against the Beavers. The Royals extracted some revenge with a 9-6 win over the Beavers of Buena Vista in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Bethel opened an 9-2 advantage through their at-bats in the sixth. Buena Vista scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth and another run in the bottom of the ninth but it was too little too late as the Royals finished with the victory in game one of their regional playoff.
Webster kicked off play in the 2023 Stevens Point Regional this afternoon when they took on the Loras Duhawks in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. The Gorloks defeated the Duhawks by a final score of 15-0. Ben Kowalski (5-3) pitched another great game for Webster as he allowed just three hits while striking out seven in 7.0 scoreless innings. Caleb Zbrozek and Scott Detweiler pitched in relief as the two combined to allow just one hit while striking out one in the final 2.0 innings of the game. Webster tallied 17 hits in the contest. R.J. LaRocco led the way for the Gorloks as he went 4-for-6 with four RBI and three runs scored, hitting for the cycle. Mitch Daniels also had a great game as he went 3-for-4 with two RBI and two runs scored.
Christopher Newport regional action with a 9-2 win over Immaculata on a neutral field in Winchester, Va. The Captains (32-9) were led by rookie Jake Benedict in his first taste of NCAA Regional action as the freshman center fielder drove in four on two hits including his first career home run. Senior Dylan Weber (8-2) got the win for the Captains on the mound after allowing just two runs on six hits over 5.1 innings pitched. He struck out six to become only the sixth pitcher in CNU baseball history to eclipse 100 strikeouts in a season, passing Scott Hudgins (1997) for fifth on the all-time chart. He becomes the first CNU pitcher since 2003 (Mike Cosby) to strike out over 100 in a season, including the most punchouts looking since Kenny Moreland's record 48 in 2008.