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OW advanced to the NCAA Tourney for the first time since 2001

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Record-Setting 2015 Campaign For Old Westbury Ends In NCAA Baseball Regionals

OW advanced to the NCAA Tourney for the first time since 2001
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AUBURN, NY -
No. 7 SUNY Old Westbury baseball concluded play in the 2015 NCAA Division III New York Regional Tournament Friday with a 9-3 setback to the No. 8 Oberlin Yeomen (20-27) from Falcon Park. Old Westbury wraps up the season with a 26-13 record after making a return to NCAA Championship play for the first time since 2001.

Panther starting left-hander Caleb Olesen (5-4, 6 H, 7 R, 3 BB) pitched himself into trouble in the first inning, surrendering five runs on four hits and two walks to the Yeomen.

Jonathan Pagan (2-for-4, HR) answered for the Panthers in the first, taking Yeomen starting right-hander Macabe Camps (2-0, 9 IP, 9 H, 3 R, 2 ER, BB, 4 K) deep over the left field wall to put Old Westbury on the board with his sixth-career home run.

Old Westbury scored one in the second to make it a three-run game off a dropped fly ball by right fielder Andrew Hutson that advanced Tommy Ziegen two bases to cross home plate.

Olesen made it through three innings until serving up a pair of singles and one free pass to end his outing with two more runs allowed during the fourth.  Lefty reliever Nick Schoen took over for Olesen in the fourth, and gave up single runs in the fifth and sixth frames.

The Panthers opened the sixth with singles by Christian Faust and Dean Sheridan (3-for-4).  Faust advanced to third off Ziegen's double play ball before scoring on a wild pitch to make it 9-3.

Vinny Bieniek and Christopher Vitale combined to toss three scoreless innings, with Vitale firing three strikeouts during the eighth and ninth frames.

Joey Walsh also added two of Old Westbury's nine hits on the day.