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Final Out and Celebration

A Jump in the Pond

Post-Game Interview With Tim Shea

Post-Game Interview With Chris Zbin

Post-Game Interview With Nick DeProspo

Post-Game Interview With Regional Most Outstanding Player Kevin Pettine

RINDGE, N.H. – A pair of third inning solo home runs from from Kyle Cummings (Hamden, Conn.) and Nick DeProspo (Worcester, Mass.) combined with a complete game six-hitter from senior pitcher Kevin Pettine (Somerset, Mass.) proved to be the recipe for success for the No. 8 nationally ranked Southern Connecticut State University baseball team, who doubled up Adelphi, 2-1, to clinch a spot in the College World Series for the second time in school history.

The Owls also reached the CWS in 2005. To do so this time around, they had to win three games in less than 24 hours. Pettine, going on just two days rest, scattered six hits over nine innings to improve to 10-0. He earned Most Outstanding Player honors of the regional after going 2-0 and allowing just one earned run over 17 innings of work in Rindge.

Southern Connecticut improves to 43-7-1 with the win. Adelphi drops to 36-14-2.

Adelphi scored a run in the bottom of the second to take a 1-0 lead. However, the Owls answered with back-to-back home runs from Cummings and DeProspo in the top of the third to take a 2-1 lead. Both long balls were nearly identical shots down the left field line.

From there, Pettine kept the Panthers off the scoreboard. The Owls had chances to extend their lead, and the Panthers brought the winning run to the plate in the ninth, but Pettine got a lineout to end the game.

DeProspo, Geffert, T.K. Kiernan (Wallingford, Conn.), Michael Cleary (West Boylston, Mass.), Kyle Rosadino (Berwyn, Pa.) and Pettine were named to the Regional All-Tournament Team.

The Owls will now wait for their first round opponent in the College World Series next weekend, which will also follow a double-elimination format.