![]() ![]() ![]() Instead the tying run remained at third, and Llewellyn picked up back-to-back strikeouts to end what turned out to be a thriller and send Iowa (43-14) to a winner’s bracket game Saturday at 5 p.m. Had Frazier gotten no leather on the liner, it certainly would have rolled all the way to the right-field fence for a two-run, game-tying triple. He was able to scramble back up, retrieve the ball, and hold Van De Brake to a run-scoring double and most importantly the tying run at third base. No, Frazier didn’t make an amazing catch, but he got enough of the hit with his glove that he kept the baseball relatively close behind him. He made a full-out dive for the ball that came up empty but only partially. With one out in the top of the ninth inning and two on in a 5-3 game, North Carolina’s Jackson Van De Brake lined a sinking and slicing drive to the left of Frazier in right field. But consider the defensive play the Cedar Rapids Jefferson grad was able to make. ![]() It might go sort of unnoticed in the Iowa Hawkeyes’ 5-4, hang-on-by-your-fingernails win Friday night over North Carolina in an NCAA baseball tournament regional first-rounder at Terre Haute, Ind. ![]()
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