Hurricanes blow four-run lead to Troy, season ends in NCAA tournament regionals
The Miami Hurricanes’ goal this season was getting to Omaha, returning to the College World Series for the first time in a decade.
They failed to get there.
The Hurricanes’ 2026 season came to an end Sunday with a 9-6 loss to the Troy Trojans in an NCAA tournament elimination game in the Gainesville Regional at the University of Florida’s Condron Family Ballpark.
Miami (39-20) went 1-2 overall in the regional, beating Troy 10-5 on Friday before falling 22-10 to host and No. 8 national seed Florida on Saturday and losing to Troy in the elimination game rematch on Sunday.
The Hurricanes on Sunday blew a four-run lead in the late innings, with Troy tying the game in the sixth and taking the lead on back-to-back home runs by Jabe Boroff and Houston Markham in the seventh inning.
The Hurricanes initially trailed Troy (34-30) 2-0 after three innings, with the Trojans holding Miami to just one hit (a Jake Ogden leadoff single in the first erased by a pickoff attempt) through the opening frames.
In the fourth, Max Galvin was hit by a pitch before Alex Sosa sent a 1-1 offering off the batter’s eye in center field to tie the game at 2-2. The home run was Sosa’s team-leading 18th of the season.
Miami entered Sunday with a 13-2 record in games when Sosa hit a home run.
Gabriel Milano then gave Miami a 4-2 lead with a two-run single that scored fellow freshmen Alonzo Alvarez (single) and Dylan Dubovik (reached on Troy throwing error).
UM padded its lead an inning later on a Galvin solo home run and Sosa RBI double to go up 6-2.
But then Troy began mounting its comeback. The Trojans scored one run in the fifth on a one-out bases-loaded fielder’s choice from Drew Nelson. UM nearly got out of the inning unscathed but couldn’t turn the inning-ending double play on Nelson’s grounder.
Troy’s Boroff then hit a solo home run — his first of two long balls of the game — off AJ Ciscar in the sixth to cut Miami’s lead to 6-4. The Trojans followed that with three consecutive singles to load the bases and chase Ciscar, who pitched two-plus innings of relief after logging just two outs as Miami’s starter in Saturday’s blowout loss to Florida. Troy tied the game before the inning ended, plating two runs on a Jake Dorn wild pitch and a Jimmy Janicki sacrifice fly.
Boroff and Markham then went deep against Dorn in back-to-back at-bats in the seventh to give Troy the lead for good. The Trojans added an insurance run in the eighth on a Steven Meier RBI single.
Hurricanes pitching gave up 11 home runs across their three games in the regional that accounted for 16 of the 35 runs they allowed.
Troy reliever Zach Crotchfelt threw 4 1/3 shutout innings to keep Miami at bay and allow the Trojans to mount their comeback after Miami scored six runs (four earned runs) against Troy starting pitcher Tommy Egan.
Lazaro Collera started for Miami on Sunday and gave up two runs over three innings before giving way to the bullpen.
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