Box Score

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. – Junior Tom Jebb singled home the game-winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the 15th-ranked Rensselaer baseball team to an 11-10 come-from-behind win over Clarkson University in the NCAA Regional, this afternoon at the Farmingdale Baseball Complex. With the win the Red Hawks improve to 37-11 and advance to the championship round against Farmingdale at 3:45pm. Clarkson finishes its season at 23-21.

Rensselaer, which trailed by as many as seven runs (9-2) in the fourth inning, won for a school-record 37th time. With a win this afternoon against the Rams, the Red Hawks will earn a trip to the College World Series in Appleton, WI.

Behind by two runs in the bottom of the ninth, junior Patrick Reardon (Troy, NY/LaSalle Institute) drew a walk to lead things off. Classmate Camden Mamigonian (Dover, NH/Dover) then hit the first pitch he saw over the wall in left to tie the game at 10-10.

Singles from Jim Devine (Castleton, NY/Columbia) and Scott Robinson (Schenectady, NY/Mohonasen) put runners on first and second, for Nic Marchese (Tampa, FL/Chamberlain) who bunted both runs over. An intentional walk to Andrew Krushelnyski (Bloomfield Hills, MI/Brother Rice) loaded the bases. Jebb (Ticonderoga, NY/Ticonderoga) then ripped a ball through the left side of a drawn-in infield for the game-winner.

Freshman Jason Griffith (Lititz, PA/Warwick) earned the win in relief for RPI, pitching 4.2 scoreless innings, allowing just four hits, while striking out two.

RPI plated the first run of the game in the bottom of the second on an RBI-single by Machese. A pair of two-run base-hits from David Kinney (Mexico, NY/Mexico) and Matt Holiday (Syracuse, NY/Bishop Ludden) highlighted a six-run third inning for the Golden Knights as the visitors took a 6-1 lead.

After the Red Hawks got a run back to make it 6-2 after three innings, the two schools traded three-runs in the fourth to maintain a five run (9-4) game. All three Golden Knight runs in the inning came on a three-run home run by Kinney. Rensselaer scored its runs on RBI-singles from Marchese and Krushelnyski, before Krushelnyski came home on a wild pitch.

A Jerry Coleman (Potsdam, NY/Potsdam) sacrifice fly in the fifth to give the Golden Knights back their five-run advantage (10-5). RPI came back with two runs in the sixth and one in the seventh to pull within two at 10-8.