The St. John's baseball team fell behind early and eventually fell to No. 24 Notre Dame, 8-4, in the final game of the three-game set. Michael Aicardi had a pinch-hit two RBI double, while Tim Morris was 2-for-2 with an RBI for St. John's (31-10, 13-5). St. John's did, however, win its sixth BIG EAST series of the year. Jeremy Barnes, Sean Gaston and Billy Boockford had two RBI apiece for Notre Dame (28-12-1, 13-5).
After a 1-2-3 top of the first, Notre Dame plated one run in the bottom of the frame to take an early 1-0 lead. Brett Lilley led off the inning with a single and David Mills followed with a sacrifice bunt. Following two straight walks to load the bases, Jeremy Barnes sent a sacrifice fly all the way to the wall in center field to put the Irish up 1-0. Another walk would reload the bases before Yecker struck out Sean Gaston to end the inning.
The Irish would plate two more runs in the third. After a pair of one-out singles, Barnes grounded the ball towards second for what looked like an inning ending double play. The ball then took a bad bounce and hopped over the head of second baseman Gino Matias and into center field. One run would score on the play and Yecker would walk the next batter to load the bases with one out. Gaston followed with a RBI single through the right side that kept the bases loaded and forced St. John's to go to the bullpen. Matt Tosoni entered and struck out the first two batters he faced to end the frame.
Tim Seames
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