The Endicott College baseball team calls their sophomore ace Big Game Chuck for a reason — and the entire country found out that reason in the NCAA Super Regional opener Friday afternoon.

Charlie Hale threw a complete game 7-hitter and struck out eight, shutting down one of the top ten offenses in all of Division 3 to send Endicott to a 15-1 win over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in Game 1 of the Super Regional at North Field.

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