BOSTON — Jared Sharkey hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the fifth inning and drove in a run during a three-run ninth, and Wheaton (Mass.) eliminated St. Joseph’s from an NCAA Division III regional baseball tournament with a 7-3 victory Saturday night after the Monks won an elimination game earlier in the day.
Bryant Salkind followed Sharkey’s ninth-inning single with an RBI double to provide the final margin.
The Lyons (29-11) took a 2-0 lead in the third, but St. Joseph’s (33-12) got three runs in the bottom of the inning, keyed by Drew Healey’s two-run double.
Wheaton tied the game in the fifth on an RBI double from Connor Gammond.
St. Joseph’s reached the night game with an 11-0 rout of Baruch (17-20) earlier Saturday. Jared Gagne and Greg Emanuelson each drove in three runs and Joey Murphy had three hits, including two triples, drove in a run, stole a base and scored four times.
Matt Bergeron (7-3) scattered five hits over seven innings and struck out six before Zach Ham and Troy Bogdahn each pitched an inning of no-hit relief.
BINGHAMTON 7, MAINE 2: Kevin Gsell hit three doubles and drove in four runs to lead the Bearcats (23-22, 12-9 America East) over the Black Bears (15-32, 11-12) in a regular-season finale in Orono.
Joe Bramanti scored both runs for Maine, coming home on a sacrifice fly by Caleb Kerbs in the second, and on a single by Mike Sabatine in the seventh.
Maine will be the fifth seed and play No. 4 UMass Lowell in the America East tournament starting Wednesday in Vestal, New York.
WOMEN’S LACROSSE
MIDDLEBURY 18, BOWDOIN 9: Jane Earley had four goals and Grace Getman had three as the Panthers (19-1) eliminated the Polar Bears (10-8) from the NCAA Division III tournament with a third-round victory in Middlebury, Vermont.
Fiona Bundy scored three goals for Bowdoin, and Elizabeth Growney and Kate Kelly each had two.
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