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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GRAND CHUTE, Wis. – The Chapman University baseball team fell into the loser’s bracket at the NCAA Division III baseball championships with a 5-4 loss to Johns Hopkins University (Md.) on Saturday afternoon at Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium. The Panthers will face University of Wisconsin-Whitewater at noon (central) on Sunday in an elimination game. Johns Hopkins rallied from a 4-2 deficit, scoring three times in the fifth inning, and then held on to upset the nation’s top-ranked Chapman team. Blue Jays’ IF Todd Emr’s two-out, two-run single gave Johns Hopkins a 5-4 lead and proved to be the game-winner, snapping the Panthers’ 12-game winning streak. After falling behind 2-0, Chapman (40-4) scored all four of its runs in the bottom of the third, getting five consecutive hits with two outs. Senior IF Kyle Redding sparked the rally with a two-out single and scored two batters later on an RBI double by junior Kurt Yacko. Senior OF Mike Vass followed with a two-run single and scored on a double by senior DH Stuart Hyman. The Panthers were held to just five hits the remainder of the game and didn’t get another runner past first base. Jays’ starter Chez Angeloni went the distance, striking out six Chapman batters to improve to 8-0 this season. Vass and junior IF Tristan Phillips led Chapman, each going 2-for-4 at the plate. Meanwhile, Johns Hopkins’ offense touched the Panthers’ senior RHP Ryan Clear (9-2) for five runs and 10 hits in five innings. Clear suffered just his second loss of the season and first since February 29. Emr and OF Brian Youchak had three hits apiece to lead the Blue Jays. Yacko came in relief for the fifth time in six playoff games and pitched four shutout innings, allowing just two hits and striking out three. The four innings matched the right-hander’s longest relief outing of the year. Johns Hopkins (40-6) entered its first finals appearance in 19 years ranked No. 5 in Division III and is now one win away from a berth in the national championship game on Tuesday. Chapman will have to win five straight games to earn its second Division III championship – a feat the Panthers accomplished in 2003. Their Sunday opponent – UW-Whitewater (40-9) – was a 10-2 winner over Cortland State (N.Y.) who was eliminated from the tournament with the loss. ### Game stats available online: |
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