Box Score The Dominican University baseball team picked up their third walk-off victory in the last five games on Tuesday afternoon, topping the University of Chicago Maroons 4-3 in 14 innings.
Tim Varallo (Chicago, Ill.) sent the Stars' fans home happy, lifting a sacrifice fly to right to score
Ryan DiCristofano (Streamwood, Ill.). It was Varallo's second RBI of the game and the junior left fielder also had an outfield assist, throwing out a runner at the plate in the top of the sixth.
Quinten Hayes (Indianapolis, Ind.) picked up the win on the mound for the Stars, working seven innings out of the Dominican bullpen to move to 1-0 on the season. Hayes allowed just one run, scattering six hits and striking out four. Hayes pitched around a leadoff single and bases loaded jam in the top of the 11
th.
The Maroons eventually got to Hayes in the 13
th inning when Ricky Troncelliti started off the inning with a double to the gap in left-center. A sacrifice bunt pushed Troncelliti to third with the Maroons' first basemen coming in to score on a Dominican throwing error.
The Stars got that run back when
Quentin Becquey (St. Julien Le Faucon, France) legged out an infield single with two outs, allowing
Joe Krasny (Berwyn Ill.) to score from third.
After Hayes tossed a 1-2-3 top of the 14
th, DiCristofano led off the bottom of the inning with a line single to center. After a balk pushed DiCristofano to second,
Kevin Schwer (Evergreen Park, Ill.) laid down a sacrifice bunt to push DiCristofano to third and set the stage for the game-winning sacrifice fly.
Varallo finished the afternoon, going 3-for-5 at the plate with two RBI, a walk and a stolen base. Krasny and
Lucas McKinney (Arvada, Colo.) had two hits apiece while
Cody Schuster (Las Vegas, Nev.) extended his season-best hit streak to 14 games with a one-out single in the bottom of the eighth.
As a team, Dominican picked up 12 hits to Chicago's 13 hits with both stranding ten runners on the day.
Quinlan Milne Rojek (Minneapolis, Minn.) got the start on the mound for the Stars, tossing seven innings while surrendering two runs, one earned, on seven hits and one walk. The Dominican sophomore struck out two in his second start of the season.
The win pushes the Stars to 14-8 overall with a Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) series with the Lakeland College Muskies on deck for tomorrow. Dominican will travel up to Sheboygan, Wis., for the 1:00 p.m. twinbill.