CNU celebrates top spot with win

Rookie Billy Steel, fresh off his USA South Tournament MVP weekend was 1-for-2 with two RBI and two runs scored. Christopher Newport sports information

In its first ever game as the #1 team in the country,  Christopher Newport blasted a pair of home runs and held off a late rally to win, 9-6, at Gallaudet. Connor Madden hit his team-leading eighth homer, a three-run shot that was part of a 3-for-5 performance to lead the Captains offense past the Bison.

For the second time this season, Pacific played a game to a rare deadlock, the Boxers tying 6-6 with Willamette in a non-conference baseball game at John Lewis Field. The Boxers came back from a 6-3 deficit by scoring three runs in the eighth inning, plating the tying run on a squeeze bunt by Sam Kaplan. The Boxers left two runners in scoring position in the ninth and neither team out runners on base in the extra innings.  The game was called after the 11th inning due to darkness as John Lewis Field is not lighted.

Senior Ryan Walsh hit a three-run homer in the seventh inning as the UMass-Boston Beacons rallied from a two-run deficit and went on to defeat Southern Maine 9-8 in a Little East Conference baseball game at the USM Baseball Stadium. The win gave the visiting Beacons a sweep of the teams' regular-season series.

Plattsburgh State snapped its four-game losing streak by taking both ends of a non-conference doubleheader against Clarkson, winning 3-2 and 7-2. Casey Mohrien gave Plattsburgh a great effort out of the bullpen in the opening game, giving up just two hits in five scoreless innings.

Jordon Vierra led Texas-Tyler to a sweep of McMurry. Texas-Tyler sports information

Jordon Vierra went 4-for-5 and Nick Clifton had three RBIs as The University of Texas at Tyler baseball team swept a non-conference doubleheader from McMurry on Tuesday afternoon at Irwin Field, winning 5-2 and 7-3. Jake Barkley earned the win for the Patriots. He tossed six innings, allowed seven hits and gave up a run. Chance Williams and Cody Jones closed out the game from the bullpen.

Catholic had a tough time scoring runs and the Cardinals fell to Mary Washington 2-1.  The Eagles scored the winning run in the bottom of the ninth when Jake Rudman singled in Mitchell Herringshaw. Torey Mancari got the win for Mary Washington on the mound after he struck out six Cardinals in three innings.

New Jersey City scored three runs in the fifth inning to open a 5-0 lead and after St. Joseph's chipped away with two runs in the seventh and eighth innings, rookie left-hander Zack Markle tossed a 1-2-3 ninth inning to earn the save and preserve the win as the Gothic Knights defeated the Bears, 5-4, in a non-conference baseball game played at MCU Park—the home of the Brooklyn Cyclones.