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Trinity College started Tuesday hoping to become the first undefeated team in modern N.C.A.A. baseball history. It had to settle for a national championship.
Trinity, based in Hartford, entered the final day of the double-elimination Division III world series in Appleton, Wis., with a 44-0 record. It faced Johns Hopkins and needed to win only one of two games to win its first national title. It could have made history by winning the first game to finish 45-0.
Trinity lost the first game, 4-3, setting up a winner-take-all final a half-hour later. During a wild game in which the lead changed three times in the final innings, Trinity scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth to win, 5-4.
There will be no “0” in their record, but there will be rings on Trinity’s fingers.
“We were most disappointed that we didn’t close it out than about the streak,” said Jeremiah Bayer, who pitched seven and two-thirds innings in the final game. “Obviously it would have been nice, but we wanted to come home with a championship.”
The tying and winning runs of the final game scored on full-count walks. The second was drawn by Guy Gogliettino, a senior third baseman in his first at-bat of the series. He fouled off seven pitches before drawing the final ball.
Trinity finished with a .978 winning percentage, breaking the N.C.A.A. baseball record of .925 set by Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 1985. Johns Hopkins finished 42-8.
Trinity’s going 45-0 would have been one of the most improbable events in the history of high-level baseball, where the dynamics of the sport leave the great occasionally losing to the mediocre, and a hot pitcher trumping all. (Most baseball experts would not bet that the Boston Red Sox would go 45-0 even in the Class A Midwest League.)

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In the end, it all came down to a passed ball.
Trinity College, putting its 41-game streak up against the 38-game winning streak of the State University of New York-Cortland, came away victorious, 2-1 last night at the NCAA Division 3 Baseball Championships in Grand Chute, Wis., when Trinity’s Matt Sullivan came home on a passed ball with one out and bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth.
With the score tied at 1 and one out, Sullivan singled to left and moved to second on Tim Bourdon’s single. Chandler Barnard drew a walk to load the bases, but Ryan Hooper’s pitch got by catcher Mike Zaccardo, giving Sullivan the chance to score.
Tim Kiely (11-0) earned the win for the Bantams. Trinity will play Linfield College, which defeated Wisconsin-Whitewater, 5-1, tonight at 7:45.
Vermont 5, UMBC 1 - Lefthander Eric Thompson’s five-hitter lifted the Catamounts over the Retrievers in the second round of the America East Baseball Championship in Farmingdale, N.Y.
Thompson walked two and struck out four and gave up one unearned run in the first inning of his fifth complete game, his first to go nine innings.
The Catamounts move on this afternoon in the double-elimination tournament to play Binghamton, a 1-0 loser to Stony Brook, last night.
Division 1 - Northwestern will vie forits fourth consecutive NCAA championship after defeating Syracuse, 16-8, in a semifinal at Towson University.
In the second game, Rachel Manson’s goal with 42 seconds left in the second overtime gave second-seeded Penn a 9-8 victory over Duke (13-8).
The Quakers (17-1) advanced to their first title game and are the only team to beat Northwestern this season.
Division 2 - Southern Connecticut State’s Letecia Taylor qualified for the finals in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles with a seventh-place finish in New Haven. Taylor’s time was 1 minute 1.58 seconds. Teammate McNeil Johnson finished sixth overall in the preliminaries of the 400 meter hurdles to advance to today’s finals.

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With just over a year until the inaugural Abu Dhabi Yacht Show in March 2009, three megayacht companies - Burger Boat Company, Trinity Yachts and Westport Shipyard, have identified the business potential and global importance of the show and confirmed their attendance. Negotiations with ‘many others’ are ongoing and likely to be secured in the coming weeks.
This early commitment confirms Abu Dhabi Yacht Show’s position on the megayacht show calendar and in the opinion of the Show’s Group Director, Franck Dailles, "is an event that anyone operating in the megayacht industry can’t afford to miss."
He continues, "The city of Abu Dhabi is the wealthiest in the world. To its inhabitants, megayachts are fast becoming a must-have item; their ability to purchase is beyond comparison. Alongside many of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi will witness unparalleled growth in construction over the next few years, much of it focused around vast new marinas and the inhabitants’ and visitors’ desire for yachting.’"
The show organiser is the Informa Yacht Group, which owns and operates Europe’s acknowledged megayacht event, The Monaco Yacht Show. With the backing and pedigree of such a successful show organiser, the Abu Dhabi Yacht Show is destined to become to the Gulf audience what Monaco is to the Europeans.
Visitors will be vetted, wealthy buyers who are acknowledged as being in the market for yachts upwards of $15million. They will come from Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates, neighbouring Gulf States as well as the key emerging markets of India and Russia. Exhibitors will also have unrivalled access to the wealthiest of buyers as the first day (Tuesday 24th March 2009) is exclusively for members of Middle Eastern royalty.
Franck continues, "Our decision to make it an exclusive event will allow exhibitors to dedicate their time and resources to genuine purchasers rather than be distracted by those simply visiting."

superyachttimes.com