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Winner Messiah MES 35-14
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Salisbury SAL 34-9
Winner
Messiah MES
35-14
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Final
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Salisbury SAL
34-9
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Messiah MES 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 4 8 0
Salisbury SAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 9 1

W: Z. Harris (8-2) L: Villa, Tyler (7-1) S: N. Barrall (7)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Will DeBoer

No. 7 Baseball stymied by Messiah in Super Regional opener

SALISBURY, Md. – The seventh-ranked Salisbury University baseball team will have to do it the hard way to advance past the NCAA Division III Super Regionals after dropping Game 1 to the Messiah Falcons, 4-1, on Friday afternoon at Donnie Williams Sea Gull Baseball Stadium. With the loss, the Sea Gulls will need to beat Messiah twice on Saturday to win the super regional crown and move onto next week's Division III Baseball Championship.
 
The game opened as a pitchers' duel, with the Sea Gulls' Tyler Villa and the Falcons' Zachary Harris matching each other zero-for-zero through the first five innings. Villa escaped trouble in the first two frames, including stranding the bases loaded in the first, while Harris faced the minimum through the first four.
 
Salisbury got a rally going in the fifth, putting men on the corners with one out, but Cole Swift bunted one back toward the mound at Harris, who flipped home to snuff out the would-be squeeze play. SU eventually loaded the bases with two out, but Harris again buckled down and fanned Trent Waire on high heat to escape the jam.
 
Messiah finally broke the ice in the sixth as Evan Wagaman took Villa deep to straightaway center for a solo home run. Then in the top of the seventh with the bases loaded and one down, Jarrett Gordon punched an RBI single through the right side, and a second run came home on a bad throw from right. Drew Hurst brought home one more on a sac fly to put the Falcons up 4-0.
 
The Sea Gulls scraped one back in the home seventh. Jackson Inman singled with one out and Swift legged out an infield hit with two down to chase Harris from the game. Pinch-hitter Ben Anderson singled Inman home to make it 4-1, and Waire was plunked to load the bases. Max Ehrhardt came up next and battled MU reliever Drew Dellinger with several hard-hit foul balls, but Dellinger ultimately induced a sharp lineout to left to mitigate the damage.
 
SU again left them loaded in the eighth, then with two down in the ninth Ehrhardt walked and Danny Sheeler singled to bring the tying run to bat, but Falcon closer Noah Barrall forced Dylan Winebrenner to roll out to short to finish the job.
 
GAME NOTES
  • Jackson Inman finished 2-for-3 with a walk and the Sea Gulls' only run of the game.
  • Ben Anderson managed a pinch-hit RBI single in his only at-bat.
  • Noah Burroughs went 2-for-4 on the day.
  • One run marks the lowest offensive output for the Sea Gulls this season, who stranded 11 men on base. SU has not managed an extra-base hit at the plate in two games against Messiah on the year.
  • Tyler Villa (7-1) suffered his first defeat of the season after giving up two runs on five hits over six-plus innings. Villa walked three and struck out three on 101 pitches.
  • Cole Williams finished off the seventh for Villa, allowing two runs (one earned).
  • Shawn Rosemond and Aiden Hankins each worked a scoreless inning in relief.
 
The Sea Gulls and Falcons will do battle in Game 2 on Saturday at 11 a.m. and Game 3 (if necessary) approximately 45 minutes after the end of the initial game. Messiah will be the home team on the scoreboard in both games. A Falcon win in either game would send them to the Division III World Series, while Salisbury needs to win twice to advance.
 
Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with primary membership in the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, along with affiliate membership in the New Jersey Athletic Conference (football, men's & women's swimming) and the Coastal Lacrosse Conference (men's lacrosse). With over 500 student-athletes in 23 varsity sports, SU is recognized as one of the nation's most competitive intercollegiate athletics programs regardless of division, featuring dedicated coaches and staff that foster excellence on and off the field. The Sea Gulls have won a combined 23 team national championships, 24 individual national championships, and 205 conference championships, and have produced 51 Academic All-Americans.

To Make Tomorrow Yours at Salisbury University, and learn more about Sea Gull Athletics' tradition of excellence, visit www.SUSeaGulls.com or follow on social media @SUSeaGulls.
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