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Joe Vetrano drove in 5 runs to help Boston College beat Nicholls 14-6 at Tuscaloosa Regional

BC kept its season alive with a blowout win on Saturday.

Joe Vetrano helped Boston College keep its season alive on Saturday. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt)

By The Associated Press

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Joe Vetrano singled, doubled and homered twice to drove in five runs and Boston College pulled away to earn a 14-6 win over Nicholls in an elimination game at the Tuscaloosa Regional on Saturday.

The second-seeded Eagles (36-19) advance to face the loser of Saturday’s late game between top-seeded Alabama and third-seeded Troy in an elimination game Sunday.

Sam McNulty hit a three-run homer in the second inning to put Boston College in front, but Nicholls manufactured a run in the second on a Wes Toups sacrifice fly and scored two runs in the third on a pair of groundouts.

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Henry Leake came on in the third inning, relieving starter Chris Flynn, and blanked the Colonels over the next four innings while Boston College rode four home runs to take a 10-run lead. Vetrano hit his first homer in the fourth, Danel Baruch hit a solo shot and Nick Wang belted a three-run homer in the fifth and Vetrano added a three-run shot in the seventh.

Leake (5-5) earned the win. Chase Gearing (3-2) worked two innings of relief for the Colonels (34-24) and took the loss.

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