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Alvernia's Tournament Statistics
Lakewood, N.J. (May 15, 2009) - The fifth-seeded College of New Jersey got a big two-out, two-run single in the first and carried the momentum for an 8-2 win over #7 Alvernia University (27-17) Friday morning in the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Baseball Regional at FirstEnergy Stadium. The Crusaders are eliminated with the loss and TCNJ advances in the losers bracket to face #6 Elizabethtown, a 9-2 winner over #8 Penn State-Berks.
The Lions had second and third with one out against Alvernia starter
Chris Stoudt (West Lawn, Pa./Governor Mifflin), but Stoudt got a fly ball to right for the second out before designated hitter
Ryan Anzelone delivered the two-run single to right center.
The Lions went up 4-0 with an unearned run in the second inning, and Alvernia put its first run on the board in the bottom of the second when
Chuck Krichling (Chesterfield, N.J./Northern Burlington) scored from second on a bunt base hit by
Mike Latona (Sinking Spring, Pa./Wilson) with two out.
TCNJ got the first three batters of the third on against Stoudt ending his day on the mound, but
Brian Longo (Uncasville, Conn./Montville) stranded two and worked four innings allowing just one run.
Alvernia scored its second run of the game on Krichling's RBI single in the third, and had its best chance to get back into the game trailing 6-2 in the seventh. The Crusaders loaded the bases with one out, but TCNJ starter
Sean Stewart, who went the distance, got a strikeout and a pop out to end the threat and the Lions responded with two more insurance runs in the eighth for a comfortable margin.
Krichling and Stoudt both finished 2-for-4 at the plate. The Lions had six players finish with multi-hit games.
Krichling finished the tournament as the leading hitter for the Crusaders going 6-for-12 at the plate iin three games. He also scored a team-best three runs. Stoudt and Krichling both knocked in three runs apiece.
Alvernia wraps up the season at 27-17 winning the Freedom Conference title in its only season in the conference. The Crusaders will move to the Commonwealth Conference for the 2010 season.
#5 TCNJ 8, #7 Alvernia 2