Top-seeded Salisbury rallied from an early 4-0 deficit, scoring the game-tying run in the bottom of the ninth, before dropping a 5-4 decision in 10 innings vs. fourth-seeded Christopher Newport Wednesday. 

The Sea Gulls (38-7) will play the first game of Friday's competition against seventh-seeded Johns Hopkins (10 a.m.).

Sixth-seeded York, like Salisbury playing in the winner's bracket of the eight-team event, was playing in the fourth game of Thursday's schedule against second-seeded Shenandoah.  In the fifth inning, the Spartans trail by an 11-0 margin.

If YCP falls to Shenandoah, the Spartans will play in Friday's second game against fifth-seeded Washington & Jefferson (1:15 p.m.).  If York can rally for the win, the Spartans would battle Christopher Newport in the winner's bracket game at 4:30 p.m.

Salisbury, the CAC regular-season and post-season champion, saw CNU score a single run in the first and three more in the third for a 4-0 lead.  The Sea Gulls bounced back with a Chad Wolfe solo homer in the fourth and a two-run homer by Ryan Smith in the fifth.

The regional tournament hosts finally evened the game in the ninth when CAC Player of the Year Mike Celenza doubled, followed by a one-out RBI base hit by Cody Collins.

CNU bounced back with a run in the top of the 10th on a base hit, a Salisbury error, a bunt base hit and a one-out RBI single to right by Parker Neal.  The Gulls stranded the equalizer on second base in the bottom of the 10th.

Dustin Herbert went the final 7.1 innings on the mound for Salisbury.  He took the loss despite allowing just one unearned run on six hits and two walks while fanning six.