Farmingdale, N.Y. -- The second-seeded Farmingdale Rams (32-11) rallied for a 4-3 win in 10 innings over the third-seeded Ithaca College Bombers (29-10-1) in Friday's final game at the NCAA New York Regional. The Bombers, who had beaten Castleton State (34-16) 5-2 in their first game of the day, were making their 43rd appearance in the NCAA playoffs.

Freshman Andrew Sanders threw the first complete game of his career to lead the Bombers to the win over Castelton State. Sanders (2-0), who had never pitched more than six innings in his previous nine appearances, held the Spartans to eight hits and kept them off the board until the eighth inning. He struck out a career-best eight batters and issued two walks.

The Bombers scored a single run in four of their last five at-bats to pull away. Junior catcher Kevin Primm and sophomore third baseman Colby Gee both had two of Ithaca's nine hits. Primm doubled in a run in the fifth inning to put Ithaca up 2-0 and two innings later he scored to stretch the Bomber lead to 4-0.

In the Castleton State eighth, the Rams used a double, triple and sacrifice fly to pull within 5-2 but Sanders retired the game's final four hitters to send Ithaca to Friday's final game.

Senior shortstop Tim Locastro led off the Bomber first with a single and moved to second on a walk to senior center fielder Mike Rosenbaum. After a sacrifice bunt moved both runners up, Gee put Ithaca ahead with a run-scoring grounder.

Primm's fifth-inning double scored junior left fielder Andrew Turner, who'd been hit by a pitch. An inning later, senior first baseman Mike Preite singled to drive in senior right fielder Teagen Barresi – who'd reached on a fielder's choice, stole second and took third on a wild pitch. Primm led off the seventh in the eighth and scored two batters later on an RBI single by Rosenbaum. Ithaca's final run came in the eighth on a pinch-hit single by freshman Max Addy that scored Gee, who'd doubled to left center to lead off the inning.

In Friday's loss to Farmingdale, the Bombers scored three first-inning runs but were held to just two hits over the final 9.1 innings. Rosenbaum singled in Locastro, who had led off the game with a double, to open the scoring. Primm hit a sacrifice fly and senior right fielder Teagen Barresi brought in a run with an infield grounder.

Freshman Jimmy Wagner allowed seven hits over seven innings, striking out five Rams.


Box score vs. Castlelton State

Box score vs. Farmingdale