May 19, 2007

Box Score

ST. LOUIS - Freshman Cole Tyrell gave visiting Dayton a 4-3 come-from-behind victory over Saint Louis in its season finale with a two-out RBI single in the top of the ninth inning. The Flyers conclude the 2007 season with a 21-33 overall record and a 9-18 mark in Atlantic 10 Conference play.

UD took early leads only to lose a pair of one-run games in the first two contests of the series. On Sunday, Dayton played the comeback role with a pair of runs in the ninth inning. Bobby Getty and Jeff Mercer gave the Flyers runners on first and second following a pair of one-out singles. Then a fielding error by a SLU outfielder loaded the bases and set the stage for a dramatic hit by Tyrell. The Flyer freshman singled through the left side of the infield with two outs to send home Getty from third and pinch runner Max Navalinski from second base to put Dayton ahead for good, 4-3.

The Flyers out hit the Billikens, 12-10 and had four players record multi-hit games. Cole Tyrell finished 2-for-5 with a run scored and two RBI. Senior Bobby Getty rounded out his UD career with a pair of singles and a run scored while Michael DeLuca also singled twice with a run scored and a RBI. Scott Dunwoody finished a solid final weekend of the season with a pair of singles and a RBI after being hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the third inning.

Dayton finished the season by being hit by pitch a school-record 104 times in 54 games played. The Flyers lead the nation in that category and ranked eighth all-time in NCAA history. UD averaged 1.93 batters hit by pitch, which was the highest rate of any team to accumulate that total in NCAA history.

After Sean Finn allowed three runs on eight hits with two strikeouts in 5.2 innings pitched, the Flyer bullpen went to a pair of seniors to shut down the Billiken offense. Phil Ernst struck out a pair of batters in 1.1 innings of perfect relief. Then Kyle Lindsay gave up just two hits and a walk in 2.0 innings of scoreless relief to earn his first win of the season.

Senior Michael Massa finished his Dayton career with 268 base hits following a single to right centerfield in the third inning. He was just three hits shy of becoming the all-time career leader in base hits at UD. The shortstop and leadoff batter is Dayton's all-time leader in runs scored (203), triples (20) and stolen bases (63).

Massa and Third baseman Joe McSoley each played in over 215 games on the left side of the Dayton infield. McSoley had 204 career base hits with 136 runs scored and 135 RBI while Getty had 197 base hits including 39 doubles, 124 runs scored and 116 RBI.