The third-seeded Mystic Schooners will visit the No. 2 Newport Gulls on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in the New England Collegiate Baseball League's Southern Division wild card game.

The winner will advance to play top-seeded Martha's Vineyard in a best-of-three series for the Southern Division title on Sunday at 7 p.m. Game 2 will be at the Mystic-Newport winner on Monday (TBA) and Game 3, if necessary, will be at Martha's Vineyard on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

The Schooners ended their regular season on Thursday night with a 15-13 loss at Martha's Vineyard. The Sharks, who finished 28-16, scored 11 runs in their final two at-bats to overtake Mystic (22-21).

Montville's TT Bowens (Central Connecticut) completed a great regular-season by going 3-for-5 with two runs scored, a home run and five RBI. Bowens, who hit .331, led the NECBL in home runs (16) and RBI (53), his RBI total a single-season league record.

Steven Barmakian (George Washington) went 4-for-6 with three runs and two RBI while James Taylor (Georgia Tech) scored two runs and drove in three, Isaiah Byars (Alabama) had two hits and two runs, Justis Burke (Allen County CC, Kan.) had two hits and Ben Maycock (UConn) hit a two-run homer.

ECSU to honor Mike Susi

• Waterford graduate Mike Susi has been selected for the 2019 Eastern Connecticut State University Athletics Hall of Fame. Susi was only the third player in ECSU history to be named the Best Hitter and Best Pitcher in the same season.

As a senior in 1993, Susi batted .378 with 59 hits, 36 RBI and 26 extra-base hits, and was 6-1 in seven starts with a 2.18 ERA in 45.1 innings. He was an All-New England (first team) and All-American (second team) choice as ECSU earned a trip to the NCAA Division III World Series.

The induction ceremony and social is Saturday, Oct. 19 at 4 p.m. at the Student Center. Tickets are $50 and can be reserved by contacting Scott Smith at (860) 465-4326 or at smithsc@easternct.edu.

New York-Penn League

• The Batavia Muckdogs scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to rally for a 6-5 win over the Connecticut Tigers. Trailing 3-0, Kingston Liniak had a two-run double for the Tigers in the top of the fifth inning. The Tigers took a 5-4 lead with three runs in the top of the sixth. Hector Martinez had a two-run double and Eric De La Rosa doubled home the go-ahead run.

Liniak was 3-for-5 and Jose King, Martinez and De La Rosa had two hits each for the Tigers (20-26).

Black Wolves sign five

• The New England Black Wolves of the National Lacrosse League announced that Ethan Woods has signed to a three-year contact while veteran defenseman Greg Downing, Mike Byrne, Brine Rice and Lauchlin Elder have signed to one-year contracts.

Woods, selected in the third round with the 31st overall pick in the 2018 NLL Entry Draft, spent the 2018-19 season as a member of the team's practice squad. The 6-foot-4 goalie spent four seasons in Ontario Junior A with the Barrie Lakeshores with a career save percentage of .714.

Downing, who joined New England as a free agent prior to the 2018-19 season, is an 11-year veteran who played in all 18 games last season. Byrne, signed by the Black Wolves on March 27, saw action in one game while Elder was originally drafted y the Georgia Swarm and Rice was a 2016 draft pick of the Rochester Knighthawks.

Williamsport edges Tigers

• The Williamsport Crosscutters scored a pair of early runs, one on third-inning solo homer by Kendall Simmons, to edge the Connecticut Tigers 2-1 in a New York-Penn League game on Thursday night at Dodd Stadium. Keider Montero pitched well in defeat for the Tigers (20-25), allowing only two runs over six innings with no walks and six strikeouts. Connecticut scored its lone run when Riley Greene raced home from third on a wild pitch. The Tigers loaded the bases with one out in the ninth, but failed to score.