Jonas Fester's game-winning single capped a 5-for-6 performance and drove in his third run.
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JHU joins Trinity in title game
Jonas Fester singled up the middle with one out in the bottom of the ninth to give
Johns Hopkins a 12-11 victory against UW-Whitewater on Monday afternoon.
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The Blue Jays survived a 17-hit attack from the Warhawks and pounded out 21 of their own, the biggest of which may have been a bunt down the third-base line in the ninth inning that refused to roll foul.
Monday's scores and
Tuesday's schedule.
Starting at noon ET on Tuesday, Johns Hopkins will try to do what no team has done the entire Division III baseball season: beat Trinity (Conn.). And to win the Walnut and Bronze, they'll have to beat them twice. It will be the first time either Johns Hopkins or Trinity has played for the title.
In the early game, it was Whitewater advancing to play Johns Hopkins after
the Warhawks held on to beat Adrian 13-11. The Bulldogs had the go-ahead run on the basepaths in the ninth inning but could not put him across thanks to another amazing catch in right field by Joe Munn.
Whitewater put up crooked numbers in the second, third, fourth, fifth and seventh, sandwiched around a seven-run rally that got Adrian back in the game.
Yesterday, James Wood had a two-run single in the first and a homer in the third to lead Trinity (Conn.) to its 44th consecutive win,
beating Johns Hopkins 8-5 in the winners bracket final on Sunday night.
UW-Whitewater powered its way to a 7-4 win over Chapman as Jeff Donovan and Joe Munn hit home runs in the game. Chapman was eliminated.
Fresh off his big hit in the 12th inning yesterday, Nick Sarkissian scattered 12 hits to lead the
Adrian Bulldogs to a 3-2 victory against the Linfield Wildcats. Linfield was eliminated.
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