Baseball Eliminated with Loss to No. 4 Kean

YORK, Pa. – An 11-3 loss to top-seeded Kean University eliminated the Mitchell College baseball team on the second day of the 2015 NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional on Thursday morning at Santander Stadium.

Kean broke the game open with a nine-run third inning in which 14 batters came to the plate. The nationally-ranked Cougars (35-11 overall) finished with 13 total hits and got 8.2 innings out of starter Charles Thielmann. Fifth-seeded Mitchell kept pace with 12 hits—led by three from Gavin LaLima—but stranded 13 runners on base.

Mitchell wrapped up the season with a 32-7 overall record. The Mariners may have faced the toughest draw of any team in the entire tournament, as both Kean (No. 4) and Salisbury (No. 5) were ranked in the top five in the country in the latest ABCA and D3baseball.com national polls.

Kean pushed across a run in the first inning to take an early lead. Ryan Reitmeyer doubled to left-center field and, after moving to third on a wild pitch, scored on a ground out by Ryan Kelley.

Mitchell starter Al Jordan Johnson didn't make it out of the third inning as Kean erupted for nine runs on eight hits and one error. The Cougars had three players deliver two-run singles with the bases loaded in the frame as the lead ballooned to 10-0.

Mitchell got on the scoreboard with three runs in the fourth. With runners at first and second and one out, Peter McTernan singled through the right side of the infield to bring in the first run. LaLima and Kenneth Olszewski each followed with RBI singles through the left side as the Mariners trimmed the deficit to 10-3.

Kean tacked on the game's final run in the seventh on a sacrifice fly by George Gillies.

Neftali Arroyo recorded his 100th career hit with a leadoff single in the fourth inning. He became the fifth player on the current roster to reach the milestone, joining LaLima, Olszewski, Evan Peck and Rafael Garcia.