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NCAA D1 tournament: Last team standing, Fairfield, falls in Austin Regional

By Joshua KumminsJune 7, 2021

Fairfield junior shortstop Justin Guerrera (Watertown, Conn.) hit a three-run home run against Arizona State. (Courtesy photo)

A season unlike any other has come to an end for all of New England’s Division 1 college baseball teams.

The action spanned into late Sunday as Fairfield completed its Cinderella run in the Austin Regional Final. The Stags capped a one-loss regular season with the best winning percentage in NCAA history, earning a national ranking and rising to No. 1 in the RPI rankings in the midst before falling in the MAAC Championship and earning the conference’s first-ever at-large bid.

Fairfield wasn’t the region’s only club writing some history this spring, as Northeastern put together a 20-game win streak during the regular season and then punched its Big Dance ticket automatically as first-time CAA champions.

UConn and Central Connecticut finished last weekend as conference champions again and fought until the end in their respective regionals. The back-to-back NEC winners took a perennial powerhouse program to extra innings before bowing out of the national tournament.

Tags: Central Connecticut State University, Fairfield, Northeastern, UConn

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