Box Score

Game 52
Final Score	Northeastern 6, Towson 3 (W, Ferguson 7-4)
Records	NU 28-24 (12-15 CAA), Towson (25-28, 14-13 CAA)
Next Game	Wed., May 22 vs. Towson (Harrisonburg, Va.), 12 p.m.
CAA Tournament	Tournament Central

TOWSON, Md. – Northeastern secured its spot in the 2013 CAA Baseball Tournament on Saturday, thanks to a lights-out pitching performance from Kevin Ferguson on the mound. Ferguson went the distance, tying a season- and career-high with 11 strikeouts en route to a 6-3 Huskies win over Towson in the regular season finale.

Northeastern earns the No. 5 seed in the tournament, owning a one-game lead over No. 6 James Madison, and will have a 12 p.m. rematch with fourth-seeded Towson on May 22.

Ferguson certainly got help from his teammates at the plate as both Rob Fonseca and John Puttress hit home runs on the afternoon, while Jason Vosler grabbed three hits for himself. NU spread the wealth around all day as six different Huskies managed to get across the plate on the afternoon in the victory.

Right off the bat, Ferguson asserted his dominance on the hill, getting the Towson bats to go in order for the first of four times on the day. But the Tigers pulled ahead an inning later with a solo home run by Blosser to give TU an early 1-0 lead in the second inning.

Fonseca retaliated in the top of the third, however. After Brad Burcroff snagged a two-out double down the left field line, Fonseca belted a deep shot over the left field wall to give the Huskies a 2-1 lead into the bottom half of the inning. The long shot was Fonseca's second in as many days and fourth of the season.

Northeastern held its tenuous 2-1 advantage for another three full innings, thanks to quick work on the bump by both Ferguson and Towson's Bertrand and Bronakoski. But the Huskies opened things up in the visitor half of the seventh frame. Sean Lyons led the inning off by drawing a hit by pitch, then Pete Castoldi followed with a single through the left side to put two on with no one out. At the DH spot, R.J. Roman reached on an error from Voytell on an attempted sacrifice bunt, which pushed both Lyons and Castoldi across home plate for a 4-1 lead.

With no one out and Roman on second, Aaron Barbosa sacrificed his chance at the plate to move his teammate to third, which paid dividends as Burcroff pushed a deep ball to right, scoring him on the very next at-bat, extending the Huskies' lead to 5-1 through the top of the seventh.

Puttress gave Northeastern a 6-1 advantage an inning later, sending a deep home run -- his first of the year -- out to deep left center. Though Ferguson worked through the order pretty quickly, Towson managed to grab another run in the bottom of the inning after a leadoff double and a single into left.

The Huskies went down in order in the ninth, but Ferguson, who finished off his fourth complete game of the year, held firm for the rest of his outing. The senior walked the leadoff batter, Fratantuono, and yielded an RBI double to make things 6-3, but he induced a game-ending grounder to the mound to finish off the Tigers, allowing Northeastern to make its first appearance in the CAA Tournament since 2009.

The two teams will meet for the fourth time this season on Wednesday at 12 p.m. in Harrisonburg, Va.

Notes:
• Ferguson currently has 89 strikeouts, the fifth-best single-season performance in NU history
• Northeastern hit a total of six home runs in the series at Towson (Vosler-2, Fonseca-2, Foster-1, Puttress-1)