May 18, 2007

Trinity Comes Up Short to Cortland St. in NCAA Baseball, 10-6

Courtesy Ithaca/Trinity Sports Information

AUBURN, N.Y. - Dan Maycock went 3-for-4 with a double and four RBI to lead the Cortland State Red Dragons to a 10-6 win over the Trinity College Bantams in the loser's bracket finals of the NCAA Division III New York Regional Baseball Championship Tournament this evening at Falcon Park. Trinity finishes the year with a 32-8 record and a 2-2 mark in the tournament, while the Red Dragons advance to the championship round on Saturday against the host Ithaca College Bombers. The Bombers downed the Bantams, 8-1, earlier today in the winner's bracket finals to reach the championship round.

Cortland took a 5-0 lead after two innings, taking advantage a couple of first-inning Trinity errors for a run in the first and adding four in the second on a two-run single by Sean Caughey and a two-run double by Maycock.

Trinity got itself back in the game with two runs in the third inning on an RBI single by sophomore C Sean Killeen (Greenfield, Mass.) and a bases -loaded walk by freshman OF James Wood (Windham, N.H.), and two more in the fifth inning on an RBI double by junior Chandler Barnard (Lubbock, Texas) and a run-scoring single by freshman 1B Kent Graham (Longmeadow, Mass.).

The Red Dragons scored twice more in the top of the sixth to push the lead back up to 7-4, but the Bantams pulled back within a run on a two-run base hit to left by Wood. Cortland put the game away with three runs in the eighth frame. Barnard, Killeen, and Graham each had two hits for Trinity.