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Crown CROWN 19-15, 14-5 UMAC
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Winner Northwestern-St Paul UNW 17-20, 14-5 UMAC
Crown CROWN
19-15, 14-5 UMAC
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Final
4
Northwestern-St Paul UNW
17-20, 14-5 UMAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Crown CROWN 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 0
Northwestern-St Paul UNW 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 X 4 8 1

W: Nick Drinken (6-2) L: Van Dam, Jacob (6-2)

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Game Recap: Baseball | | Jared Gilmore - Assistant Athletic Director of Communications and Operations

Baseball Clinches UMAC Playoff Spot Despite Loss to Eagles

St. Paul, Minn. - The Polars baseball team faced off with Northwestern St. Paul on Friday afternoon and fell by a score of 4-1.

A three run first inning from the Eagles put Northwestern out in front heading into the top half of the 2nd inning. A leadoff solo home run from Bryan Gerbers in the top of the 4th inning cut into the Eagles lead 3-1. Crown just tallied two more hits in the remainder of the contest as the Polars fell by a score of 4-1.

Jacob Van Dam was credited with the loss after pitching 8 innings and allowing just 4 earned runs. As a team the Polars totaled 4 hits as Gerbers, Tyler Olson, Julian Encinas, and Louis Garcia earned a hit. 

Depsite the loss the Polars clinched a spot in the UMAC postseason tournament with a shot to earn the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA regionals. Crown falls to 19-15 on the season and 14-5 in UMAC play and will face off again with Northwestern tomorrow May 3rd in a doubleheader starting at 1pm.
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Scoring Summary

Score By Innings
Play CROWN UNW
UNW BOT 1st G. Kennedy singled to center field, advanced to second on the throw, RBI; C. Raya advanced to third; M. Bligh scored. 0 1
UNW BOT 1st B. Rabey doubled down the rf line, 2 RBI; G. Kennedy scored; C. Raya scored. 0 3
CROWN TOP 4th B. Gerbers homered to left field, RBI. 1 3
UNW BOT 4th B. Bruce flied out to cf, SAC, RBI; B. Hixon scored. 1 4

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