OXFORD, Ohio \u2013 University of Massachusetts baseball fell to Miami (OH), 8-7, in the series finale on Sunday afternoon at McKie Field at Hayden Park.
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\nUMass moved to 17-27 overall, and 12-18 in the MAC, while Miami (OH) improved to 35-15 overall and 22-8 in the league.<\/p>\n
Vance Bonior<\/a> and Ryan Kolben<\/a> both went 3-for-4 on the afternoon, followed by Reece McCarthy<\/a>, Jack Beverly<\/a> and Matt Travisano<\/a> with two hits each. Four Minutemen recorded one hit, including Braden Sullivan<\/a> with a double. Travisano posted two of UMass’ seven runs, while Gavin O’Brien<\/a> led with two RBI. McCarthy, Bonior, Kolben and Travisano all had one RBI apiece. \u00a0
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\nMiami (OH) got on the board first with a bases loaded walk to take a 1-0 lead.
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\nMassachusetts took over the lead, 3-1, in the top of the third. Travisano led off with a single to left center field, followed by a double down the left field line by Anthony Tirado<\/a>. A ground out helped Travisano cross the plate, before an error on the first baseman on the same play aided Tirado from third to home to lead, 2-1. McCarthy then singled down the left field line and advanced to third on a Sullivan single. Kolben singled through the left side driving home McCarthy.
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\nThe RedHawks pushed across a run on a bases loaded walk to make it a 3-2 game in the bottom of the third.
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\nThe Minutemen extended their lead after putting up four runs in the top of the eighth. Kolben started the inning off with a single. With one out, Beverly singled up the middle with Kolben advancing to second. Travisano then singled up the middle as Kolben scored to make it a 4-2 game. Back-to-back singles with two outs from both O’Brien and McCarthy gave UMass a 6-2 lead. Bonior followed with a single up the middle to drive home O’Brien to put Massachusetts ahead, 7-2.
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\nThe RedHawks tacked on six runs in the ninth, including a three-run home run, to come away with an 8-7 win.
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\nBrandon Wingenroth<\/a> (1-3) had the loss for the Minutemen, allowing two runs on two hits, with no walks nor strikeouts in the final inning.
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\nJack Geiser earned the win for the RedHawks, giving up no runs, two hits, a walk and striking out two in 1.1 innings of work.
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\nMassachusetts concludes the regular season with a three-game series against Central Michigan on Thursday, May 14 through Saturday, May 16. First pitch is set for 3 p.m. on Friday, before a 1 p.m. start on Friday. Saturday’s game will begin at 12 p.m., as UMass celebrates Senior Day. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OXFORD, Ohio \u2013 University of Massachusetts baseball fell to Miami (OH), 8-7, in the series finale on Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-266340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}