Rensselaer Edges Clarkson in Regional
#3 Rensselaer - 11, #6 Clarkson - 10
Farmingdale, N.Y. – Junior Tom Jebb
singled home the game-winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning
to give the 15th-ranked Rensselaer baseball team to an 11-10
come-from-behind win over Clarkson University in the NCAA Regional,
this afternoon at the Farmingdale Baseball Complex. With the win
the Red Hawks improve to 37-11 and advance to the championship
round against Farmingdale at 3:45pm. Clarkson finishes its season
at 23-21.
Rensselaer, which trailed by as many as seven runs (9-2) in the
fourth inning, won for a school-record 37th time. With a win this
afternoon against the Rams, the Red Hawks will earn a trip to the
College World Series in Appleton, WI.
Behind by two runs in the bottom of the ninth, junior Patrick
Reardon (Troy, NY/LaSalle Institute) drew a walk to lead things
off. Classmate Camden Mamigonian (Dover, NH/Dover) then hit the
first pitch he saw over the wall in left to tie the game at
10-10.
Singles from Jim Devine (Castleton, NY/Columbia) and Scott
Robinson (Schenectady, NY/Mohonasen) put runners on first and
second, for Nic Marchese (Tampa, FL/Chamberlain) who bunted both
runs over. An intentional walk to Andrew Krushelnyski (Bloomfield
Hills, MI/Brother Rice) loaded the bases. Jebb (Ticonderoga,
NY/Ticonderoga) then ripped a ball through the left side of a
drawn-in infield for the game-winner.
Freshman Jason Griffith (Lititz, PA/Warwick) earned the win in
relief for RPI, pitching 4.2 scoreless innings, allowing just four
hits, while striking out two.
RPI plated the first run of the game in the bottom of the second
on an RBI-single by Machese. A pair of two-run base-hits from David
Kinney (Mexico, NY/Mexico) and Matt Holiday (Syracuse, NY/Bishop
Ludden) highlighted a six-run third inning for the Golden Knights
as the visitors took a 6-1 lead.
After the Red Hawks got a run back to make it 6-2 after three
innings, the two schools traded three-runs in the fourth to
maintain a five run (9-4) game. All three Golden Knight runs in the
inning came on a three-run home run by Kinney. Rensselaer scored
its runs on RBI-singles from Marchese and Krushelnyski, before
Krushelnyski came home on a wild pitch.
A Jerry Coleman (Potsdam, NY/Potsdam) sacrifice fly in the fifth
to give the Golden Knights back their five-run advantage (10-5).
RPI came back with two runs in the sixth and one in the seventh to
pull within two at 10-8.
(Story by Perry Laskaris, Sports Information Asst at RPI)
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