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Box Score 2 MEQUON, Wis. – Sophomore Jimmy Carrington hit a walk-off single in the 10th inning to defeat Benedictine and the MSOE baseball team held off Dominican after leading 6-0 as it won two games to remain alive in the NACC Tournament Friday at Kapco Park.
The No. 5 Raiders (23-21) took out the No. 2 seed Eagles in dramatic fashion in the 1 p.m. game, then came back to jump out to a big lead on the No. 6 Stars (18-23) before holding on for a 7-5 win in the next contest.
MSOE now advances to day three of the tourney, where it will take on the loser of No. 1 Concordia Chicago and No. 3 Aurora at 10 a.m. Saturday.
With the first game tied at 6-6 in the 10th inning, Magyar drew a one-out walk. Two batters later, freshman Nick Gross also walked to put runners on first and second with one out. Carrington then chopped a 1-2 pitch through the right side to score Magyar from second base.
Junior Brandon McCumber (3-3) picked up the win with 4.2 innings of relief. He allowed just one run on four hits, striking out two and walked one.
MSOE struck first with a pair of runs in the first inning on a one-out walk and back-to-back singles. Sophomore Ryan Newman was then hit by a pitch to force in a run and sophomore Owen Burnikel added another on a fielder's choice.
BenU answered back in their next at-bat, tying the game with two runs in the second inning. It then took a 4-2 lead with another two-spot in the fourth.
The Raiders answered in kind, pulling back a run on an RBI single by Magyar in the fourth and Burnikel put them back in front with a two-out, two-run triple in the fifth inning.
The teams traded runs in the sixth inning—MSOE scoring on senior Tyler Doyle's RBI single—before the Eagles evened the game at 6-6 with another run in the eighth.
McCumber worked around a two-out single in the ninth inning and set the side down in order in the 10th to set up the Raiders' winning rally.
Doyle and Burnikel finished the game with three hits each, while Burnikel finished with three RBIs. Doyle's third hit, a lead-off single in the eighth, was his school record-tying 66th of the season.
The Raiders jumped out to a big lead in game two with another two-run first inning followed by four runs in the second. McCumber had the third of three-straight singles with one out in the opening frame to plate the first run. Sophomore Garrett Willems then followed with a sacrifice fly.
In the second inning, sophomore Max Kemp led off with a single and scored two batters later on an error. Freshman Nick Gross then followed with a run-scoring double. Carrington single and, two batters later, Willems and Burnikel had back-to-back RBI singles to make it 6-0.
Dominican did not go quietly, chipping away at the Red & White advantage one run at a time. The Stars scored single runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings. Then, after a 1-2-3 sixth inning, they pulled within 6-4 with another score in the seventh.
Magyar re-established the two-run lead at 7-5 in the bottom of the seventh with an RBI double.
In the ninth inning, DU threatened with an unearned run and had the tying run at the plate with one out. McCumber came into the game and retired the first batter he faced. After a walk, he came back and got a game-ending strike out to earn his third save of the season.
Freshman Matt Mohapp (1-1) pitched two solid innings of relief to get his first collegiate win. He allowed one run on two hits. Freshman Sam Crawford, who started game one and threw 5.1 innings, came back to offer two relief innings of his own. He also allowed two hits with a strikeout and was charged with an unearned run.
Burnikel added another three hits in game two, while Kemp also finished with three hits.
With 23 wins, the Raiders have set a school record for wins in a season, while also clinching their first winning season since 1983 (12-10).