For the first time in program history, the Endicott College baseball team has reached the NCAA Division 3 Final Four.

Robbie Wladkowski’s two-run homer — which broke the school record for most round trippers in a career with 28 — proved to be the game-winning hit as the Gulls defeated Kean of New Jersey, 5-4, in a CWS elimination game Sunday night in Eastlake, Ohio.

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