St. John’s baseball is going to the NCAA Super Regionals after beating Florida State 5-4 on Monday afternoon.
This marks only the second time in program history that the team has made the Super Regionals. The last time the Johnnies did was in 2012, when they won the Chapel Hill region as a No. 3 seed.
It is also the first time in the history of NCAA baseball that two No. 4 seeds have advanced to the Super Regional.
This time, they were the fourth seed in the Tallahassee region and beat the 10th-ranked Seminoles 6-5 and NIU 21-8 before winning again on Monday against Florida State.
Starting pitcher Evan Hoeckele went five innings while only letting up two runs to keep the game within striking distance.
The hero of the game was a New York native catcher, Adam Agresti, whose grand slam to deep center changed the game in the fifth inning, giving the Red Storm a 4-2 lead. The Johnnies never relinquished the lead after that, even though they had just two more hits in the rest of the way.
It came down to the wire in the top of the ninth when Florida State’s Cal Fisher hit a two-run home run to bring the score within one. But St.Johns pitcher Victor Frederick held the Seminoles off.
St. John’s ended the regular season 35-24 and 15-6 in the Big East. St. John’s was the No. 1 seed in the conference and won the Big East tournament over Creighton.
St. John’s will play Alabama in a best-of-three series that starts on Friday.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
