Reid Love got the win for ECU, throwing four spotless innings in relief, not allowing a baserunner. Pirates starter David Lucroy allowed two runs on four hits through five. Ciavarella tossed 6.2 innings, allowing three runs with just one earned on eight hits to suffer the loss. T.J. Hunt (Wyckoff, N.J./Ramapo) threw 1.1 scoreless relief innings for MU. Offensively, Travis Watkins went three-for-four with an RBI for ECU, the only Pirate with more than one hit. Steve Wilgus (Woolwich, N.J./Gloucester Catholic) had two hits for Monmouth, and Chris Gaetano (Madison Township, Pa./Scranton Preparatory) drove in a run for MU.

Back-to-back ECU singles started off the bottom of the third, and after a sacrifice bunt, Parker Lamm got the Pirates on the board with a sacrifice fly to center. The Hawks knotted the game in their next at-bat in the top of the fourth, with Shaine Hughes (Sewell, N.J./Washington Township) starting things by reaching on an error. After Kyle Perry (Toms River, N.J./Toms River South) sacrificed him to second, a pair of walks loaded the bases in front of Gaetano. He hit a chopper towards first that was booted, enabling a run to score and tie things at one.

Wilgus and Hughes singled consecutively with two down in the fifth, and Wilgus came home on a throwing error by third baseman Jackson Mims during Perry's at-bat to put MU on top 2-1. The score would hold there until the seventh, when Love helped his own cause with a leadoff single. Lamm reached on an error by Dave Moreno (Voorhees, N.J./Eastern Regional) on a sac bunt attempt, and a successful sacrifice put runners on second and third with one away. Bryce Harman tied the game with a sac fly, and Watkins put a single back through the middle to give the Pirates a 3-2 lead, which would hold as the final.

MU travels to VCU next weekend, where they will play VCU on Friday, Minnesota Saturday and James Madison Sunday.