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Mark McKenna
Marshal Filipowicz
5
Winner Fairfield FFD 34-24
0
Canisius CAN 24-29
Winner
Fairfield FFD
34-24
5
Final
0
Canisius CAN
24-29
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Fairfield FFD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 5 12 0
Canisius CAN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1

W: McLoughlin, Trey (5-5) L: Hunt, Nolan (5-4)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Sees Season End at MAAC Championship

Fairfield sophomore pitcher Trey McLoughlin went the distance and fanned a career-high 14 Canisius batters, and the five runs scored by the Stags were more than enough support, as No. 3 seed Fairfield defeated top-seeded Canisius 5-0 Saturday afternoon in an elimination game at the 2019 MAAC Baseball Championship at Richmond Count Bank Ballpark in Staten Island, N.Y.
 
With the win, Fairfield advances to the elimination bracket final where the team will meet No. 5 seed Manhattan. The Golden Griffins see their season end at 24-29 with the loss.
 
Game Recap
McLoughlin, who entered the game ranked second of Fairfield's staff with 68 strikeouts in 66.2 innings of work, fanned 14 Canisius batters over nine frames, including the final five outs of the game. He improved to 5-5 on the year with the victory. The 14-strikeout effort for McLoughlin bested his previous career-high of 11, set earlier this season against Brown, and serves as the most strikeouts in a game for a Fairfield pitcher since the 2009 season.
 
With a scoreless game through 6.5 innings, Canisius had its best threat to put a run on the board in the home-half of the seventh, as senior Mark McKenna led off the inning with a double to right. After a line-drive out off the bat of junior Jacob Victor for the first out of the seventh, redshirt-junior Billy Krull flied out to right for the second out, but McKenna was able to advance one base and settle himself 90-feet from putting the Blue and Gold in the lead. However, McLaughlin got out of the jam by striking out redshirt-freshman Cole Hollins to end the seventh, his eight of strikeout of the contest.
 
In the top-half of the eighth, Fairfield broke the game open with five runs off Canisius senior starter Nolan Hunt, who took the loss on the hill for the Griffs. With one out and the bases loaded, Fairfield's Anthony Boselli singled to the gap in left-center to drive in two runs before Tom Ryan doubled to left-center to plate two more runs that gave the Stags a 4-0 lead. Another double by Fairfield later in the inning off Canisius junior reliver Jarod Burmaster made the score 5-0.
 
Hunt took the loss after he allowed five runs, all earned, on 10 hits to go with a strikeout and a walk. Burmaster allowed just one hit, while senior Jared Kennedy gave up a hit and walked a batter in 0.2 innings of work in relief.
 
McKenna ended the day with two of Canisius' three hits in the loss, while fellow senior Connor Morro also recorded a base hit in the losing cause.
 
Head Coach Matt Mazurek's Postgame Comments
"It was a tough way to end the season today. To have it end this way for our eight seniors didn't go exactly as planned.

"These eight men will truly be missed in our program. They upheld the standards of Canisius Baseball to the highest degree and our program is better for having them be a part of it. The examples these guys displayed daily and, especially this year, of how to go about their business in this program to have success should be a great teacher for the underclassmen that will remain. 

"The impact these eight guys have had on our program will be seen for a long time."
 
Game Notes
• This was Canisius' 13th consecutive year qualifying for the MAAC Baseball Championship – the longest streak of its kind in the 11-team conference.
• This also marks the first time Canisius went 0-2 at a MAAC Baseball Championship since 2007.
• The Griffs fall to 22-35 all-time against the Stags.
• McKenna ended the season with 10 multi-hit games.
• Morro ended his career as a Griff reaching safely in 10-straight games.
• Hunt's 7.1 innings Saturday was his second-straight start of seven-or-more innings and his third such start over his last four appearances.
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