BOISE, Idaho — The Montana State membership baseball workforce opened the Northern Pacific Regional Match with an upset win, however its season got here to an finish Saturday night time at Memorial Stadium.
Of their first regional match in program historical past, the fourth-seeded Bobcats had two probabilities Saturday to succeed in Sunday’s championship recreation. They misplaced the primary one 14-4 to top-seeded Utah State, then fell 17-7 to third-seeded Oregon. MSU completed the season with a 9-9 document.
“Simply ran out of gasoline,” MSU coach Joe Hoy wrote in a textual content message. “The objective was to play three video games on this regional, nevertheless, and so they met that objective.”
MSU obtained near the title recreation because of its 9-3 win over Oregon State on Friday night time. OSU was 19-2 and ranked No. 7 within the newest Nationwide Membership Baseball Affiliation ballot going into the sport, which the Cats led 4-0 by way of 4 innings and 6-3 by way of 5. They scored their ultimate three runs within the prime of the seventh.
Tristen Delaney pitched a whole recreation towards OSU, permitting three earned runs on 10 hits and one stroll with 4 strikeouts. Justin Cervi Cervi batted 3 for five with a double and 4 RBIs.
“An excellent 12 months with numerous positives to construct on subsequent 12 months,” Hoy wrote.