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Odds & Ends - Walk-Off Wins

#1: April 24, 1976, vs. BFA-Fairfax, 4-3 (9 innings)
#2: May 22, 1976, vs. Harwood, 8-7 (Game one of a doubleheader)
#3: May 4, 1979, vs. Middlebury, 5-4. Jamie Vetters '79 scored the game-winning run on a wild pitch.
#4: April 24, 1980, vs. Mount Abraham, 9-8. Mick McKenzie '80 hit a two-run double to plate the Lakers' eighth and ninth runs.
#5: May 13, 1981, vs. Milton, 1-0. Mike Brochu '82 scored on Brian Bittner's '82 single with two down in the bottom of the seventh.
#6: June 5, 1982, vs. Spaulding, 6-5 (8 innings). Tom Bergeron '82 drove home Scott Weinheimer '82 with an eighth-inning, pinch-hit single in a Division I Tournament quarterfinal game.
#7: June 1, 1983, vs. Lyndon, 2-1. Bryan Parizo '84 scored the game-winning run on an error in a Division I Tournament playdown.
#8: April 20, 1984, vs. BFA-Fairfax, 5-4. John Carp's '84 sacrifice fly scored Scott Hamlett '84.
#9: May 20, 1985, vs. North Country, 8-7 (8 innings). Todd Collins '86 singled to score Dan Brunelle '85 with the game-winner.
#10: May 6, 1989, vs. Milton, 8-7. Jim Covey '89 drove home the winning run with a two-out single.
#11: May 18, 1989, vs. North Country, 4-3. Joe Goodreau '89 scored on an error to win the game.
#12: May 26, 1992, vs. Rice, 4-3 (11 innings). Sean Gilbert's '94 single scored Jeff Simays '94, who caught all 11 innings, to end the longest game to that point in program history.
#13: June 1, 1994, vs. Middlebury, 2-1 (8 innings). John Hill '94 scored on Tom Belisle's '95 one-out, fielder's choice grounder.
#14: April, 20, 2000, vs. St. Johnsbury, 13-12. Travis Miles '00 laid down a suicide squeeze to plate Jason Carey '01 with one down.
#15: May 29, 2003, vs. Rice, 6-5. D.J. Edwards '05 dropped down a bunt single to score Aaron Mason '03 and cap a three-run rally in the bottom of the seventh with no one out.
#16: May 19, 2005, vs. Mount Mansfield at Centennial Field, 8-7. Curtis White '06 singled into right to drive home Mickey Merola '07 with two down in the bottom of the seventh inning.
#17: April 25, 2011, vs. Missisquoi, 4-3 (9 innings). In a ninth inning that occurred on May 18 after the first eight innings were completed on April 25, Jared Cayia '12 walked with the bases loaded and no one out to force home Zach Tandy '12, making Tandy the winning pitcher.
#18: May 7, 2011, vs. Burlington, 4-3 (8 innings). Jared Cayia '12 doubled with the bases loaded and one down, bringing home the tying and winning runs to cap a three-run eighth inning.
#19: May 12, 2011, vs. Mount Mansfield, 6-5 (8 innings). With his first varsity hit, Devin Dessormeau '13 capped a two-run eighth inning with a game-winning, two-out single.
#20: May 19, 2011, vs. Spaulding, 5-4 (8 innings). Andrew Cootware '11 caps Colchester's comeback from a 4-1 seventh-inning deficit by launching the first walk-off home run in program history, a solo shot with one out in the eighth inning. Zach Dandurand's '11 two-out RBI single ties the game in the seventh and forces extra innings. It is the Lakers' fourth extra-inning victory in 13 days - including the completion of their April 25 game on May 18 - matching their total from the prior 18 years.
#21: June 7, 2013, vs. Rice, 3-2 (8 innings). Jared Antoniak's '15 one-out, bases-loaded bunt single plates the winning run, capping a two-run eighth inning during a Division I Tournament quarterfinal game.
#22: May 28, 2014, vs. Burlington, 3-2 (8 innings). JP Olson's '14 one-out bunt single plates Jared Rylant '15 with the winning run. Down to their last out during the seventh inning, the Lakers forced extra innings when a two-out infield grounder was thrown away, allowing two runs to score.
#23: April 14, 2015, vs. Missisquoi, 4-3. After the Lakers yield the go-ahead run in the top of the seventh, Connor Barton '15 rips an opposite-field two-run double with two down in the bottom half, scoring Derek Sanderson '16 from second base and Brandon Arel '15 from first.
#24: May 10, 2016, vs. Rice, 2-1 (8 innings). Derek Sanderson's '16 one-out, bases-loaded single in the bottom of the eighth inning snaps a 1-1 tie, plating Justin Evans '16 with the winning run.
#25: April 25, 2017, vs. North Country, 8-7. Tom Vesosky's '18 two-out, two-run single in the bottom of the seventh inning caps a three-run inning, scoring Thomas Colgrove '18 and Tyler Daniels '19 with the tying and winning runs. The hit completes the Lakers' comeback from down 7-0 in the third inning.