After a strikeout to open the ninth, the next four Lake Monsters were all issued base on balls. Walks to Jackson Kline (Kansas), Gio Cueto (Wake Forest) and Tommy Hawke (Wake Forest) loaded the bases before Kline scored on a wild pitch. Then after a Brian Schuab walk reloaded the bases, Evans (Tufts) cleared them with a double to the left-centerfield wall.
Scoreless over the first 7 1/2 innings as Vermont starter Joe Mascio (St. Johns) allowed four hits with no walks and seven strikeouts over six innings, while Norwich starter Finn Doherty three hits with no walks and three strikeouts over seven innings.
Norwich got a pair of RBI doubles and a sacrifice fly to take the 3-0 lead and got a leadoff single in the bottom of the ninth and one-out hit batter, but Lake Monster George Goldstein (Middlebury) closed out the win with a flyout and strikeout for his league-leading 11th save of the season.
Monster Performances
Joe Mascio 6 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 7 SO
Jimmy Evans 2-for-4, 2B, 3 RBI
Gio Cueto 2-for-3, BB, R
Monster Highlights
* The 4 straight 1-out walks in top of 9th were the Lake Monsters only walks of the game
** Cueto has now hit safely in all 14 games he has started, going 25-for-52 (0-for-1 as pinch hitter)
Beyond The Boxscore
* Vermont (34-13) has won 8 of their last 10 games to move 21 games over .500 for the 2nd time this season
* Magic number to clinch playoff spot is 5 and magic number to clinch regular-season title is 9 (both unofficially)
* 3rd Vermont win when trailing after 8 innings this season (6/19 at Norwich erased 1-run deficit with 6 runs top 9th)
Next Game: Wednesday Brockton, 7:00pm
Next Home Game: Thursday vs. Westfield, 6:35pm