Trinity passes Cortland
Bantams remain a perfect 42-0
In the end, it all came down to a passed ball.
Trinity College, putting its 41-game streak up against the 38-game winning streak of the State University of New York-Cortland, came away victorious, 2-1 last night at the NCAA Division 3 Baseball Championships in Grand Chute, Wis., when Trinity's Matt Sullivan came home on a passed ball with one out and bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth.
With the score tied at 1 and one out, Sullivan singled to left and moved to second on Tim Bourdon's single. Chandler Barnard drew a walk to load the bases, but Ryan Hooper's pitch got by catcher Mike Zaccardo, giving Sullivan the chance to score.
Tim Kiely (11-0) earned the win for the Bantams. Trinity will play Linfield College, which defeated Wisconsin-Whitewater, 5-1, tonight at 7:45.
Vermont 5, UMBC 1 - Lefthander Eric Thompson's five-hitter lifted the Catamounts over the Retrievers in the second round of the America East Baseball Championship in Farmingdale, N.Y.
Thompson walked two and struck out four and gave up one unearned run in the first inning of his fifth complete game, his first to go nine innings.
The Catamounts move on this afternoon in the double-elimination tournament to play Binghamton, a 1-0 loser to Stony Brook, last night.
Women's lacrosse
Division 1 - Northwestern will vie for its fourth consecutive NCAA championship after defeating Syracuse, 16-8, in a semifinal at Towson University.
In the second game, Rachel Manson's goal with 42 seconds left in the second overtime gave second-seeded Penn a 9-8 victory over Duke (13-8).
The Quakers (17-1) advanced to their first title game and are the only team to beat Northwestern this season.
Track
Division 2 - Southern Connecticut State's Letecia Taylor qualified for the finals in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles with a seventh-place finish in New Haven. Taylor's time was 1 minute 1.58 seconds. Teammate McNeil Johnson finished sixth overall in the preliminaries of the 400 meter hurdles to advance to today's finals.
Division 3 - In Oshkosh, Wis., Keene State's Crystal Blamy won the high jump with a leap of 5 feet 7 inches to win in the women's NCAA national championship . . . Wheaton's Renee Thompson qualified for today's 400-meter dash final. The two-time All-American placed fourth in her heat, turning in a 57.44 showing, edging the 10th-place finisher by 0.06 seconds. Wheaton's Chizoba Ezeigwe of Brockton finished sixth in her heat in the 100-meter dash trials . . . Colby College's Anna King and Cassie Knight finished second and fifth, respectively, in the steeplechase. King was the national runner-up with a school-record time of 10:27.56, while Knight clocked in with a 10:32.94 . . . Lizzy Danhakl set a Williams record in the 800 with 2:11.64 for the sixth-fastest qualifying time and teammate Elise Johnson qualified for the finals of the 100 hurdles with a 14.30 . . . Bates's Rich McNeil was fifth in the men's hammer throw with a toss of 173 feet 3 inches to qualify for the finals.
