Baseball: Sayreville Upsets Woodbridge, 4-3, in GMC Tournament Quarterfinals

NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ -- Tenth-seeded Sayreville scored the tiebreaking run in the top of the seventh inning and went on to upset second-seeded Woodbridge, 4-3, in the quarterfinal round of the Greater Middlesex Conference baseball tournament on Wednesday night.

Sayreville went ahead, 4-3, on a bases-loaded walk in the top of the seventh. In the bottom of the seventh, Rob Lukachyk reached on a one-out single for Woodbridge, but he was stranded as the game ended.

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Woodbridge had taken a 1-0 lead on a home run by Tim Deignan in the bottom of the second inning, but Sayreville answered with a pair of runs in the top of the third to take a 2-1 lead. Tom Schlaline's RBI single in the fourth inning extended the Bombers' lead to 3-1.

The Barrons came back to tie the game, 3-3, with two runs in the bottom of the fifth inning on Xavier Diaz' RBI single to left-center on a 3-2 count with two out.

Lukachyk finished 3-for-3 with a run scored, giving the senior 102 hits for his career, as he had half of Woodbridge's total of six hits against Bomber pitchers Moe Hedderman and Logan Kaufman.

Jaydon Stio had two of the five hits for Sayreville.

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Sayreville will play third-seeded Old Bridge in the GMC Tournament semifinals on Saturday at East Brunswick Magnet School.

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