• George Mason completes the weekend sweep of Dayton with a 5-4 Sunday win.
• RS-junior Liz Seymour goes 3-for-3 with an RBI double.
• Patriots have now won six in a row for its longest winning streak of the season.

 
FINAL: George Mason 5, Dayton 4
Winning Pitcher: Haellie Gordon (11-10) – Losing Pitcher: Jessica Gilliam (8-7)
 
FAIRFAX, Va. – George Mason did its part to potentially clinch a berth in the A-10 Tournament by defeating Dayton 5-4 on Senior Day. With the win, a Saint Joseph's loss guarantees the Patriots will finish in the top six and head to New York in two weeks for the conference tournament.  
 
The day was dedicated to senior Brooke Sullivan with a pregame ceremony, and she delivered on the field by collecting two RBI to tie for the team lead. The lone senior on the roster is now hitting .305/.428/.450 entering the final weekend of the regular season.
 
RS-junior Liz Seymour went 3-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored. Her RBI double reclaimed a two-run lead for the Patriots, which came in handy down the stretch.
 
RS-freshman Adriana Erickson and and RS-junior Jess Middleton each chipped in two hits, with one of Erickson's resulting in her first career triple. Middleton continues to tear the cover off the ball by hitting .419 with an OPS of 1.322 in her last 12 games.
 
"They just kept fighting [in today's game]. They've been amazing the last couple of weeks," head coach Joe Verbanic said. "They've stayed the course, worked hard and it's all starting to come together."
 
Sullivan got her Senior Day started in electric fashion. She engaged in a nine-pitch at-bat before singling to center field that drove in Erickson and put the Patriots on top 1-0 in the bottom of the second. Erickson reached third with her triple to give the Patriots a runner in scoring position right away in the inning.
 
Later on, it was Sullivan again with an RBI in the bottom of the third. The fielder's choice brought home Liz Seymour to double the lead at 2-0. The big hit came one batter later with a stand-up triple by sophomore Sydnee Wells that brought home two and pushed the Green and Gold lead to 4-0.
 
Dayton fought back and made it a one-run game with a big fourth inning that saw the Flyers post three on the scoreboard thanks to a couple of RBI singles. The rally prompted Verbanic to make a pitching change and bring in Haellie Gordon to hold down the fort up 4-3.
 
George Mason brought it back to a two-run lead with Seymour's RBI double in the bottom of the fourth. The hit plated junior Jess Curbeira after she reached base with a single to lead off the inning.
 
Gordon kept the Flyer bats at bay into the sixth inning. Dayton got a run back in the bottom of the sixth with a solo home run, but Gordon was lights out from there and got three ground outs to end the inning.
 
The freshman kept battling into the seventh, and worked around a leadoff single to hold on to the George Mason lead. Julia Blarr lined out to Middleton at third to end the game and complete the Patriots' sixth win in a row to set a new season high.
 
 
NEXT ON THE DIAMOND
 
The Patriots close out the regular season in the Northeast against first-place UMass. The games will be the team's first in the month of May and will feature a doubleheader on Saturday, May 5 and a single game the following Sunday at noon.