APPLETON, Wis. — Senior Forrest Chadwick went 4 for 5 with a home run and three RBI as the University of Southern Maine Huskies defeated the Salisbury University Sea Gulls, 6-3, Saturday afternoon in an elimination game of the 2014 NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament at Fox Cities Stadium.
The Huskies will play Baldwin Wallace University on Sunday in another elimination game at 1 p.m.. The Sea Gulls, winners of 20 straight games entering the tournament, finished the season 37-9. In an earlier elimination game, Emory University defeated defending champion Linfield University 8-5 to stay alive in the eight-team, double-elimination tournament.
Chadwick hit a solo home run, his seventh of the season, in the top of the ninth inning to give the Huskies a 6-3 lead. Chadwick scored the Huskies’ first run in the second inning coming home on a double play. He knocked in two runs with a single through the right side in the Huskies’ four-run fifth-inning explosion that wiped out a 2-1 deficit.
The Huskies had 11 hits against Sea Gulls. In addition to Chadwick, rookie Paul McDonough and senior Matt Verrier had two hits apiece. Junior Jake Glauser had a solo home run for the Huskies.
Tennis
Berg, Planche win in semifinals
CLAREMONT, Calif. — The Bates College men’s tennis doubles team of senior Timmy Berg and junior Pierre Planche won its semifinal match before falling in the finals of the NCAA Division III Doubles Championships at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center on Saturday afternoon.
Berg and Planche beat Joey Fritz and Justin Reindel of Amherst College in the semifinals, 6-2, 7-5, to advance to the final match.
Track and field
Ruginski tops field
DELAWARE, OH — University of Southern Maine junior Jamie Ruginski became a two-time national champion Saturday, winning the triple jump at the NCAA Division III Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Ohio Wesleyan University.
In fourth place after the opening round of three jumps with a mark of 14.74 meters, Ruginski moved into the lead on his mark of 15.13 meters on his fifth of six attempts. He was the only competitor to surpass the 15-meter mark.
In other competition on Thursday, sophomore Jeremy Collins posted the ninth quickest time in the 400-meter hurdles trials, missing today’s final by one one-hundredth of a second.
Ruginski and Collins came back to team with sophomore Daniel Webb and junior Kevin Desmond of Monmouth in the final event of the day, the 1600-meter relay, to break the school record with a combined time of 3:12.94.
Enos leads Bates
Bates finishes well
DELAWARE, OH — Junior Sean Enos placed fourth in the discus throw, while senior Kallie Nixon took fifth in the finals of the 3,000-meter steeplechase on Saturday at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
Enos had a strong first attempt in the event trials, setting a new personal record at 51.77 meters, and bettered that on his third attempt at 52.45 meters.
Nixon finished in 10:38.79, just 0.92 off of her career-best time of 10:37.87, which earned first place at the New England Dvision III Outdoor Championships on May 1.
Enos has two fourth-place finishes in this year’s NCAA championships to give Bates 10 team points, putting the Bobcats in contention for a top-20 team finish.
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