May 25, 2011 - Final (13 innings)
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Flyers
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5 |
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Explorers
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6 |
| 30-25, 15-9 A-10 |
27-24, 13-11 A-10 |
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1
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2 |
3
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4
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5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
R |
H |
E |
No. 6 La Salle
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0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
6
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12
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1
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No. 3 Dayton
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0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5
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8
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2
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| W - Christensen (3-2). L - Hauschild (9-7). |
Box Score
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Scoring Summary
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Inn. |
Summary |
UD |
LAS |
| UD |
3rd |
Coughlin homered to left field, RBI (0-0). |
1 |
0 |
| LAS |
4th |
Flax singled to left field, RBI (2-2 FFBFB); Klem advanced to third; Norton scored, unearned. |
1 |
1 |
| LAS |
4th |
Bennie walked, RBI (3-2 BSBFFBB); Schoch advanced to second; Flax advanced to third; Klem scored. |
1 |
2 |
| LAS |
4th |
Feierstein singled to right center, 2 RBI (0-0); Bennie advanced to third; Schoch scored, unearned; Flax scored, unearned. |
1 |
4 |
| LAS |
4th |
Feierstein advanced to third; Bennie scored on a wild pitch, unearned. |
1 |
5 |
| UD |
4th |
Stewart grounded out to 2b, RBI (2-1 BFB); Gillman scored. |
2 |
5 |
| UD |
7th |
Castine tripled to right field, 2 RBI (2-0 BB); Roesinger scored; Welch scored. |
4 |
5 |
| UD |
7th |
Blasik singled through the left side, RBI (0-0); Castine scored. |
5 |
5 |
| LAS |
13th |
Norton reached on a fielding error by 2b (2-2 FBSB); Negrin advanced to second; Feierstein scored, unearned. |
5 |
6 |
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Game Information
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| Location |
Camden, N.J. |
| Stadium |
Campbell's Field |
| Attendance |
- |
| First Pitch |
3:47 p.m. ET |
Game Time
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3:20 |
| Weather |
74 degrees, partly cloudy |
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Box Score
CAMDEN, N.J. (Atantic10.com) – A costly Dayton (30-26) error allowed a Brendan Norton ground-ball to get through the right side, scoring what would prove to be the game-winning run and giving sixth-seeded La Salle (28-24) the narrow, 6-5, victory over the Flyers after 13 hard-fought innings in the opening round of the 2011 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Championship, Wednesday afternoon at Campbell's Field in Camden, N.J.
With the win and second upset of the afternoon, La Salle betters its record to 28-24 on the season and advances to the second round of the Championship to face second-seeded Rhode Island tomorrow at 3:30PM, while Dayton falls to 30-26 overall and will take on No. 4 Xavier later this evening.
Dayton's Mike Coughlin opened the scoring, blasting his second homer of the season over the left field wall and giving the Flyers the early 1-0 advantage.
La Salle second baseman Jeff Flax, an All-Conference honorable mention, started the Explorers' fourth-inning scoring spree, hitting an RBI-single to left field that would bring home Brendan Norton to knot the score at 1-1. La Salle took the 2-1 margin after Dayton's Burny Mitchem walked Joe Bennie and Dan Klem crossed the plate. Zack Feierstein followed with a two RBI-single to right, scoring Marc Schoch and Flax, before Bennie came home on a wild pitch.
Junior first baseman C.J. Gillman worked his way around the bases in the in the bottom of the fourth to help UD cut La Salle's lead to 5-3, as the Littleton, Colo., native doubled down the left field line, advanced on a wild pitch and scored off a Zach Stewart ground-out.
After two scoreless innings, Dayton used four hits in a three-run seventh inning to even the score at 5-5. Danny Welch got on base first, as he singled to right field, before Jimmy Roesinger was hit by a Kevin Fuqua pitch. With two on and one out Jonathan Castine drilled his first triple of the season to right field, registering a pair of RBI, as Welch and Roesinger scored. Brian Blasik would then bring Castine home for the game-tying run, singling through the left side.
The two teams would battle through the next five innings before Norton's at-bat and a Flyer error at second base would allow Feierstein to score the go-ahead run and secure the 6-5 victory for La Salle.
La Salle's Pat Christensen (3-2) earned the win on the mound, hurling 2.0 innings of relief with one strikeout, while Dayton's Mike Hauschild (9-7) took the loss, after six innings of work with four strikeouts and two walks.
The 13-inning outing between Dayton and La Salle marked the fifth longest game in A-10 Baseball Championship history and the longest of the season for the Flyers. The longest game in the A-10 Championship went 17 innings in 2006.
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