miles
Brendan Bittner
5
Ashland ASHLAND 36-18
6
Winner Quincy QU 40-15
Ashland ASHLAND
36-18
5
Final
6
Quincy QU
40-15
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
Ashland ASHLAND 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 11 1
Quincy QU 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 1 6 11 2

W: Wehde, Jake (8-2) L: Brandyn Sittinger (4-2)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Nicholas Kedzuch

Heart Attack Hawks Walk-Off Ashland

ST. CHARLES, Mo. - The top-seeded Quincy University baseball team came back from a five-run deficit against sixth-seeded Ashland University with some late inning heroics to win the first round NCAA Division II Midwest Regional Tournament game 6-5.  QU tied the game in the eighth inning and Dominic Miles won it for the Hawks in the 10th inning in walk-off fashion. 

AU (36-18) scored five runs in the second inning against Jake Peterson aided by a couple of errors.  Peterson was locked in from there and pitched six scoreless innings after the second inning.  He threw eight innings allowing nine hits with five strikeouts.

The Hawks' (40-15) ignited a spark off the bat of David Jacob in the sixth inning.  Jacob connected on a hanging off-speed pitch that he launched over the right field wall for his seventh homerun of the season.  Dominic Miles singled on a bunt to the pitcher and Peter Cunningham walked to put runners on the corners with two outs.  Justin Blechle lined a triple down the right field line and down to the fence to score Miles and Cunningham.  

Quincy scored another two runs in the eighth inning.  Tommy Hager pinch hit and laid down a bunt that the Eagles' pitcher turned and fired over the first baseman's head when runners were on first and second.  Ryan Snyder scored and Dominic Miles scored later on a double play to tie the game 5-5.

Teddy Rule came in for the Hawks in the ninth and pitched a scoreless ninth with one hit and one strikeout.

Brynn Martinez successfully stole second base, but slid over the base and got caught between second and third to end the ninth inning with David Jacob at the plate.

Jake Wehde (W, 8-2) threw a scoreless 10th inning with one strikeout to set up the theatrics at the Lou Brock Sports Complex.

David Jacob singled up the middle to start the 10th inning.  After a failed bunt attempt that was fouled over the backstop, Ryan Snyder turned around a pitch back up the middle on a hit and run.  The Eagles' shortstop was headed toward second base and the ball went right past the outstretched glove back behind the shortstop.  A few pitches later, Dominic Miles singled past a drawn in infield and a mosh pit ensued at first base after Jacob scored the game-winning run.  

The Hawks won their 40th game for the first time since 2006 and the fourth time in program history.  

The three, four, and five hitters each went 3-for-5 and combined to score five of the six runs in the game for the Hawks.

The top-seeded Hawks will play No. 3 seed William Jewell College at 3 p.m. tomorrow at Lou Brock Sports Complex in St. Charles, Mo. on the campus of Lindenwood University.

 
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