LOWELL, N.Y. - In another offensive slugfest that featured a combined 27 runs and 31 hits, host UMass Lowell (19-33, 11-13 America East) held off Binghamton baseball (26-21, 12-11 AE) 14-13 in the regular-season finale Saturday afternoon at LeLacheur Park.

The Bearcats wound up tied for third in the America East standings and will carry the No. 3 seed into the conference tournament, which BU will host beginning Wednesday at the Bearcats Baseball Complex. Binghamton will play No. 6 NJIT in the 5 p.m. game, following the matchup between No. 4 Bryant and No. 5 UMass Lowell. The first two games are single elimination with the two winners advancing to the double-elimination format, which begins Thursday.

On Saturday, the runs were aplenty, with UML building a 9-2 lead before BU chipped away. The Bearcats scored three runs in the seventh, one in the eighth and three in the ninth to pull within a run. Binghamton had the tying run on base in each of the eighth and ninth innings but came up short.

Sophomore third baseman Devan Bade capped off a fantastic final series with two home runs (his sixth and seventh) and five RBI. He ripped a two-run shot in the fifth inning and did it again in the seventh. In the three-game set, Bade went 8-for-14 (.571) and drove in nine runs. Junior first baseman Andrew Tan went 3-for-4 with two RBI and freshman shortstop Mike Stellrecht hit a two-run home run and collected two hits. 

Sophomore second baseman Nick Roselli padded his team-leading RBI count with two more. Roselli is hitting .369 and has 59 RBIs and ranks third in the conference in both categories.  

Tickets for the 2023 America East Baseball Championship, played exclusively at Binghamton from May 24-27, are on sale now at www.bubearcats.com/tickets. Individual day tickets, which are valid for all games played that day, are available for $12 each for adults and $6 each for youth 14 & under. All-tournament passes are available for $25 each and include every game played in the four-day span.