Tritons lose extra innings thriller to Red Devils, place 5th overall

LONGVIEW -- Edmonds College baseball took the defending NWAC champion Lower Columbia College Red Devils to the 11th inning, but fell in a walk-off hit by pitch, 2-1. It was a hard ending to a great contest. Left-handed sophomore starter and Wofford College commit Sheldon Egger worked 6 2/3 innings, punching out four, allowing no earned runs. The Devils broke the scoreless tie in the bottom of the sixth on a two-out single that shot past a diving Blake Conrad at first base. Edmonds was no-hit for the first seven frames before Camden Gillespie left the yard with a solo home run into the left field bullpen. That knotted the game up at 1-1, and it stayed that way until the 11th. With two outs and runners on first and second in the top of the 10th, Levi Joyce laced one but Devils' first baseman Jake Smith laid out to nab the liner and end the threat. Lathan Haywood relieved Egger, spinning three-plus innings, and was the tough-luck loser. There were a few defensive miscues that ending up costing the Tritons outs over the course of the tilt. Noah Albanese went 2-for-2 off the bench.

Watch Gillespie's homer | See the defensive play by Smith

The Tritons dropped to the loser's bracket after a 11-0 defeat to Tacoma on Friday night. In a game played through the rain, the Titans were able to touch starter Matthew DelVecchio for three runs in the first inning and they never looked back. They added two more in the third and four runs in the fourth to build a huge lead behind a 14-hit attack. The Triton offense could only produce two hits off Titan bump and University of Oregon commit Isaac Evaniew.

Edmonds ends the season with a 26-20 mark, their second consecutive Super Regional championship, and a tie for 5th place overall in the NWAC. Second year head coach Brooks Roy has led both of his squads to the NWAC Championship Tournament, and the program has extended its postseason streak to 10 years.