 UIC's
Brett Schaefer guided UIC to a perfect
4-0 week by hitting .529 (9-for-17) with five extra-base
hits, including a pair of home runs and nine runs-batted-in.
The junior first baseman hit a game-tying RBI double
with the Flames down to their final strike in the
bottom of the ninth off of Horizon League saves leader
Jarad Miller and went on to score the game-winning
run one batter later in UIC's 7-6 comeback win Saturday
over Valparaiso that clinched the Flames' seventh
straight regular-season League title. Schaefer also
hit his second grand slam of the season in UIC's 9-2
win over Purdue. For the year, he is batting .355
with eight home runs and a League-best 51 runs-batted-in.
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Bucknell baseball senior Jason Buursma
logging both wins on the mound for the Bison in the
best-of-three Patriot League Championship series at
Navy this past weekend, helping Bucknell upset the Mids
to capture its fourth Patriot League title. Buursma,
a two-way standout for the Orange and Blue, also used
his bat to help the squad overcome sizable deficits
in both of its wins over Navy. He went 3-5 in the first
game with the game scoring run and went 2-5 and slid
into home for the deciding run in the deciding win.
Buursma collected all four of the Bison's postseason
wins as he went 4-0 in the PL tournament with a 0.00
ERA in 10 innings on the mound and allowed only three
hits over his four relief outings.
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In the North Atlantic Region Championship, Tournament
MVP Tyler Redick came in from rightfield
to record the final three outs for only his second
save of the season and propelled Shippensburg to the
Division II Baseball Championship. Redick went 2-5
in the championship game with the first RBI for the
Raiders. The junior outfielder also went 3-5 with
an RBI in a win over West Chester to send them to
the title game, 2-3 with two RBIs and runs in a win
over Pittsburgh-Johnstown and 2-4 with 2 RBI in Shippensburg
opening win over West Virginia State.
