PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A bases-loaded walk in the top of the 10th inning Sunday night gave Suffolk University a 5-4 win over St. Joseph’s College in the championship game of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference baseball tournament.
St. Joseph’s (25-14), the No. 1 seed, forced a winner-take-all game by defeating the second-seeded Rams 8-7 earlier in the day, then sent the final game to extra innings with a two-run rally in the bottom of the ninth.
An error in the 10th led to an unearned run, however, as Suffolk (33-11) earned the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division III tournament for the second straight year.
Nic Lops had three hits and two RBI in each game for St. Joseph’s. His sacrifice fly in the ninth inning of Game 2 cut the Monks’ deficit to 4-3, and Jameson Collins followed with a game-tying single.
In the first game, St. Joseph’s fell behind 5-0 in the first inning but fought back with a 13-hit attack. The Monks scored three runs in the second inning and took the lead for good with three more runs in the fourth. Taylor Reuillard tripled home the tying and go-ahead runs.
Taylor Black, Brett Barbati and Anthony DiPrizio each contributed two hits for the Monks.
Starting pitcher Corey McNamara (4-2) lasted into the eighth inning despite his shaky start. Josh Partridge recorded the last four outs for his first save of the season.
ALBANY 9, MAINE 4: Maine (17-29, 6-11 America East) took a 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning, but the Great Danes (19-23, 7-10) scored six runs in the fifth to sink the Black Bears in Albany, New York.
Brenden Geary gave Maine its early lead with a double that scored Tyler Schwanz, Jeremy Pena and Lou Della Fera.
Albany responded with two runs in the third and then pulled ahead in the fifth.
Maine got its last run in the eighth on Caleb Kerbs’ RBI single.
CASTLETON STATE 6, HUSSON 5: Julien Boone went 3 for 5 with two runs scored for Husson (23-21), but the Eagles couldn’t hold on to a 4-0 lead against Castleton (32-10) in the North Atlantic Conference final at Castleton, Vermont.
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BATES: The Bobcats (12-5) received an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III tournament and will host a second-round game Sunday against Springfield (14-5) or Bridgewater State (12-5).
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