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Lancaster, Pa. - Mercyhurst's Zach Blair hit a three-run home run in the eighth innning to break a 1-1 tie and lift Mercyhurst over East Stroudsburg by a 4-1 score Saturday in the NCAA Atlantic Regional.
Mercyhurst (41-10) moves on in the winners bracket and squares off against Millersville Sunday in a meeting of the top two seeds and the only 40-win teams in the regional. ESU (26-19) dropped its first game of the regional and now faces Concord in an elimination game at 3:30 p.m.
ESU starter Andy Noga (6-5) and Mercyhurst starter Eric Aschley (8-1) dueled into the sixth, and it was ESU's Eric Forth that drove in the Warriors' first and only run for a 1-0 lead. Mercyhurst finally cracked Noga in the seventh on a RBI double from Ethan Santora. Blair's bomb came in the eighth, putting Mercyhurst in front for good.
Samuel O'Neill entered in the ninth and notched his third save of the year. Aschley struck out eight, walked three and scattered nine hits.
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