Ninth-round rally allows Creighton to defeat Michigan 11-7, and imposes second regional game | Baseball

The 11-7 victory sets up a second final at 6 pm On Monday. The game has been moved by three hours compared to the originally scheduled time to allow TV coverage.

"Let me say that I do not usually have trouble talking about baseball, but after this one, I do not know what to say, except that I'm really proud of our guys," said Ed Servais coach. "It was not always very good, but it's not the first time we have a late comeback in a game. It did not happen in this kind of game. "

And Servais said his team was ready to play more baseball.

"I think we will have (momentum)," he said. "I think university athletes are successful. I think our guys can play 18 rounds right now. "

Creighton (41-12) began his comeback of the ninth inning with a walk and a single. This required the first of many pitching movements in Michigan.

The Wolverines replaced Benjamin Keizer by Jack Weisenburger, who scored the final in the Wolverines' 6-0 win in the opening game against Creighton on Friday.

Parker Upton fully counted against Weisenburger, then threw a shot inside the ball 4 to charge the goals. The year 's player in Big East, Jake Holton, also completed a full count and sent a deep training to the center. His sacrificial volley boosted the three riders and reduced the deficit to 7-5.

Will Robertson followed with a brace of the left field fence, placing Isaac Collins to bring Creighton into a race and increase the volume of a crowd of Bluejay fans behind the first goal canoe.

"The fans are the reason for our presence here," said Bobby Kametas, a close friend of Creighton. "They were great all weekend and they have always supported us all year."

Michigan went to his pad one more time, bringing Isaiah Paige. He intentionally walked Jack Strunc to recharge the bases. But Paige did not get better results than her predecessors.

He also accompanied Jordan Hovey on four straight courses to tie the game.

"I think our attitude as a team was:" We've done it before, "said Hanafan." Throughout our canoe, we said, "Give us a chance and put the guys at the top of our lineup. "And that's what we really did."

Creighton took an 8-7 lead on Jason Allbery's bloop in the straight line. Hovey scored 9-7 when he slipped home on a past ball. Finally, Will Hanafan delivered a two-point single to top the score.

"You do not often see seven points scored on three hits," said Servais. "There were a lot of things going on in the ninth inning. To be honest, they helped us a lot. But our guys still had to stay disciplined, set aside some terrain and create steps to get into this situation. "

It was a crushing defeat for Michigan, who had only three outs to win his ninth trip to the super regions.

"We had a crisis in the ninth inning. "I do not know why it happened, but it happened, and we'll just move on," said Wolverine coach Erik Bakich. "We will play tomorrow and that is what we look forward to."

After sending Cincinnati 6-1 to a playoff game earlier Sunday, CU – who was playing his first regional final in seven years – quickly took the lead over Michigan.

Collins doubled and scored in the first leg and Hanafan gave in to give the Bluejays a 2-0 lead over the league's main prospect, Tommy Henry. It was the first Hanafan circuit of the season.

"I saw the left field player jump on it and I honestly thought it would fall off the wall," Hanafan said.

But the 2-0 lead did not last.

Jimmy Kerr crashed a fast ball from Denson Hull over the green screen which culminated 20 feet from the fence in the center for a three-point homer in the third. But Hull has negotiated several tricky traffic jams to prevent Michigan from increasing its lead.

He escaped the bases in the second and fourth innings before recovering after conceding his fourth earned point in the sixth.

Kametas, however, could not escape another traffic jam in seventh. With two outs and two runners up in second and third places, rookie Riley Bertram scored a two-point double along the right-ground foul line, bringing Michigan's lead to 6-2.

The Bluejays did not go down quietly.

Parker Upton ended Henry's night with a center-left circuit, with a draw in the eighth. Willie Weiss was summoned from the Michigan office to end the threat, but could not find the strike zone. He walked two and hit another to fill the bases with two outs.

Keizer was the next to exit the Wolverines market and quickly launched two strikes on Allbery. But Keizer hit Allbery in the leg to bring the score to 6-4.

Keizer recovered, however, forcing David Vilches to fly to the right to leave the bases filled.

At the top of the ninth, Kerr scored his second match of the game. He got a Kametas advantage over the right field fence for a 7-4 lead in Michigan.

"The moment that really hit me was in the dugout when teammate Ryan Connolly said," Yes, we can. Yes, we can! "He kept our hopes in place and prevented me from thinking negatively," Kametas said. And once my teammates have done all these races, I know I will do my job for my teammates. "

Hull gave eight hits, made two and eliminated four in five and a half innings.

Kametas has worked the last three rounds with mixed results, but won. He dropped seven of nine finalists, including the last three, after leading Christan Bullock early in the ninth.

It was Creighton's first win over Michigan after losing all three games, including the Wolverines knocked out the Jays on Friday.