HIGH POINT, N.C. – The Marymount University baseball team fell in a hard-fought contest to No. 2 Washington & Jefferson College in an NCAA Division III Regional matchup on Friday, 5-4, seeing a historic 2021 season come to a close.

This season, the baseball team made the program's first-ever appearance in the NCAA tournament, following its first-ever Atlantic East Conference championship.

The Presidents put up four runs over the first three innings to take a 4-0 lead in the contest, but the Saints would begin to claw back into the game in the middle innings. Senior Drew Mead settled into five-straight scoreless innings of pitching, beginning in the fourth, to give the offense a chance to come back.

In the fifth, junior David Kurzrock and sophomore Bobby Leitzel led off with consecutive walks, before advancing to second and third on a sacrifice bunt by junior Robby Cable. Kurzrock came home on a ground out by senior Casey Baker to get the Saints on the board.

Cable came up big in the bottom of the seventh with a two-RBI triple down the right-field line to bring the Saints to within one, 4-3. Kurzrock and Leitzel, again, reached base with a pair of singles, setting up Cable's at-bat.

Marymount tied the score in the eighth, as the team was able to load the bases. Kurzrock came to the plate and worked a walk to force in the tying run.

Washington & Jefferson was able to find the winning run in the top of the ninth, ultimately knocking the Saints out of the regional bracket.

Mead pitched eight innings for the Saints, striking out eight. Cable led the offense with his two RBIs, while Kurzrock reached base three times in the game on two walks and a single.