Kean will play in the NJAC championship game on Monday.
Top seeded Kean pounded out 21 hits
en route to an 18-9 victory over Rowan in the winners bracket game of the NJAC Tournament Sunday afternoon at Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium. With the win the Cougars (33-9) advance to the championship game on Monday, May 5. Montclair State advanced to play Kean on Monday with a 10-1 win against William Paterson and a 7-2 win over Rowan.
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Joining the NJAC in determining a champion on Monday will be the North Atlantic Conference. Due to poor weather, the Husson-Castleton NAC title game has been postponed to a time and location that will be determined.
In non tournament action, Transylvania (28-10) rallied for five runs in the eighth inning Sunday, denying Rose-Hulman the Heartland Conference championship
with a 5-3 win and clinching the fourth and final spot in next week's league tournament. The Engineers (28-11) needed a win to get the HCAC title over Mount St. Joseph. Instead, Ben Luking (8-1) pitched into the ninth inning, allowing just one earned run, and Ben Young drove in the game-winner during the decisive eighth inning. Brent Roach came on in the ninth to nail down the win and pick up his fifth save and his second in as many days over the Engineers.
More of Sunday's scores
St. Norbert put the finishing touches on its third Midwest Conference North Division Championship in four years with a 4-2, 8-2 doubleheader sweep of Ripon at Francis Field. The sweep, the first for the Green Knights in Ripon since April 26, 1978, put St. Norbert at 24-9 overall and 13-3 in the MWC North. Ripon, ranked 23rd nationally by D3baseball.com, finished the regular-season at 25-8, 12-4.