A pair of Case Western errors allowed Salisbury's Kyle Hayman to score the game-winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning as the Sea Gulls captured the NCAA Regional title with a 3-2 victory.

The CAC Champion Sea Gulls (37-7) advance to the eight-team NCAA Division III Championship Series in Appleton, Wis., where they'll face Cortland State in the opening round of the double-elimination tournament Friday at 4:30 p.m.

It'll be Salisbury's fourth trip to the NCAA Championship series, the most recent in 2011 (also in 2001 and 2004).

Salisbury's victory Monday extended the team's win streak to 20 games, dating back to the second game of a CAC regular-season twinbill  at Christopher Newport on April 5.  The 7th-ranked Gulls went 4-0 in CAC Tournament play at York and finished off a perfect four-game weekend in the NCAA Regional at Marietta, Ohio.

Starting pitcher Brett Collacchi improved to 12-1 for the season, scattering 10 hits and a walk over eight innings.  Kyle Hamby threw a perfect ninth inning to gain his ninth save of the season.

Case Western scored the first two runs of the game in the top of the fifth inning on three hits and a walk.  Leadoff hitter William Meador was one of three CW players to finish with two hits, and he scored the first run of the game on a one-out sacrifice fly.

Salisbury's offense broke the shutout in the bottom of the sixth against starting pitcher John Fortunato, who went the distance allowing just one earned run on four hits and two walks.  Both starting pitchers recorded one strike out.

DH Pete Grasso scored SU's first run, reaching safely on a fielder's choice and eventually scoring on a one-out squeeze bunt by Johnny Shiotis.  In the seventh, Salisbury tied the score when Jordan Gowe opened the inning by reaching safely on an error, then scoring on a two-out throwing error on a Bill Root grounder.

In the eighth, right fielder Hayman dropped a bunt single down the first base line for his third hit of the game.  Hayman advanced to second when the throw sailed into right field.  Grasso followed with another bunt, and the CW defense contributed another throwing error, allowing Hayman to score the game-winning run.