Frostburg State and Salisbury Drop Saturday College World Series Games; Sea Gulls Bow Out, Bobcats Play Elimination Game Sunday
Frostburg State and Salisbury both dropped Saturday contests at the College Baseball World Series in Appleton, Wisc. Second-ranked Frostburg State fell to top-ranked Cortland State 4-1, while fifth-ranked Salisbury dropped a 9-1 decision to 14th-ranked Trinity (Texas).
The Salisbury loss knocked the Sea Gulls out of the tournament and ends their year at 33-6-1, while Frostburg State remains alive and will play an elimination game on Sunday. The Bobcats will meet Ramapo at 11 a.m. EST on Sunday or a do-or-die contest. If Frostburg State defeats Ramapo, the Bobcats will face Cortland State again tomorrow afternoon at 5:30 pm EST.
In the Frostburg State/Cortland State matchup, the Red Dragons (42-4) struck first in the first inning and tacked on two more in the third for a 3-0 cushion. After that, Bobcat starter Clayton Freimuth settled down and limited Cortland to just three hits and a single run over the next five innings of work, but the Bobcats were only able to muster one run in an RBI single from Ricky Castro in the fifth inning.
Freimuth tossed 7.0 innings and surrendered four earned runs on eight hits. He struckout four and raised his season total to 101 and became just the third player in school history with 100 or more strikeouts in a season. Greg Schneider and senior Ricky Brady each finished with two hits for the Bobcats.
In the Salisbury vs. Trinity (Texas) matchup, the Sea Gulls were unable to overcome a pair of big innings for Trinity in the 9-1 defeat. After a scoreless opening two frames, Trinity put up five runs in the third and four in the seventh to grab the win and knock SU out of the double-elimination tournament.
The Sea Gulls lone run came in the top of the fourth on a solo home run from Jordan Gowe. Austin Barefoot had a pair of hits for SU, while Dan Fein took the loss on the mound.