St. Thomas is heading to the Division III College World Series, after winning two elimination games over Pacific on Monday and three in 24 hours in Collegeville, Minn.
The Tommies, needing to win twice Monday to advance to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, beat Pacific 7-4 in the first game after falling behind 4-0. They won 13-9 in Game 2, rallying for a five-run ninth after Pacific had gone ahead with five runs in the seventh.
Matthew Enck (Edina) went 6-for-7 in the doubleheader, and Charlie Bartholomew (Mahtomedi) went 4-for-7 with four RBI.
St. Thomas is in its final season of Division III baseball and will be heading to the College World Series for the seventh time since 1999. The Tommies are 20-3 over their last 23 games,
They'll face Adrian at 1:15 p.m. on Friday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
• Also advancing to the eight-team CWS was Johns Hopkins, which eliminated Northwestern (St. Paul) with a 3-2 victory Monday in the St. Paul regional.
Two tennis titles for Carleton
The Carleton men's tennis program earned its first and second individual national championships Sunday, as senior Leo Vithoontien won the NCAA Division III singles championship, then teamed with Xander Suczek to claim the doubles title.
Vithoontien, the national runner-up in 2019, defeated Tufts' Boris Sorkin 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in the finale. Six hours later, he and Zuczek won 6-3, 6-2 over Brandeis' Jeffrey Chen and Adam Tzeng in straight sets (6-3, 6-2). It was the 12th time in NCAA Division III men's tennis history that a player won the national championship in both singles and doubles.
