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May 16, 2007

NOTE: Tomorrow's game has been pushed back to 8 p.m. due to weather conditions, please stay tuned to the GMC website and/or the NCAA Regional website for complete updates

Gwynedd-Mercy 5, Frostburg State 3 10 inn.
2007 NCAA Tournament Regional Game One
McMenamin's late heroics avenge loss to Bobcats in last season's NCAA Tourney

Box Score

BOYERTOWN, PA. - Sophomore Tim McMenamin (Maple Shade, N.J./Maple Shade) hit a two-out, two-run homerun to right in the bottom of the 10th inning to lift Gwynedd-Mercy to a 5-3 win over Frostburg State in the first game of the 2007 NCAA Tournament Regional at Bear Stadium.

The Griffins will now play tomorrow at 8 p.m. against either top-seeded Kean or in a rematch with the Bobcats.

Gwynedd led 3-2 going into the ninth, but Frostburg rallied as a two-out single from Bryan Burke knotted the game.

In the bottom of the ninth, leadoff hitter Ken Bengtson (Jamison, Pa./C.B. East) singled to left, and later after two popups, stole second. The throw careened into center field, but the sophomore got a late jump taking off for third and was thrown out, sending the game to extra innings.

The Griffins (32-10) did build a 2-0 lead in the second as a pair of two-out RBI singles from Chris Corkery (Philadelphia/Roman Catholic) and Dan Strack (Langhorne, Pa./Holy Ghost) helped starter Matt Daley (Philadelphia/Roman Catholic).

Daley worked five innings, scattering six hits and gave up only one run, a solo homer by FSU's Ryan Webb in the fourth to cut the lead to 2-1.

GM plated a run in the fifth on a throwing error for a 3-1 edge. With Bengtson on second and Matt Martin on first, a hard hit ball to short was snared by Brett Mitchell who tried to flip to second. Martin beat the force out and the throw to first got away from 1B Allen Peake, allowing Bengtson to round third and score.

Peake atoned for the error in the sixth as he hit a solo homerun just inside the left field foul pole off of reliever Kyle Reynolds (Darby, Pa./Cardinal O'Hara).

In the bottom of the frame, Gwynedd had back-to-back singles and later loaded the bases with two outs, but a diving snare off a sharp hit ball to center ended the threat.

Reynolds picked up the win, striking out two over five hits and two runs in five innings.

McMenamin and Bengtson had three hits each. Mike Gitzen also added three hits for Frostburg (31-14).

NOTES: Frostburg eliminated the Griffins from last year's NCAA Regional on a walk-off RBI single…Senior Anthony Capella (Philadelphia/Roman Catholic) doubled in the second, notching his ninth on the season and school-record leading 46th of his career.

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