AUBURN, N.Y.--Swarthmore College Baseball has advanced to its first ever regional final with a 9-6 win over No. 24 Southern Maine on Saturday night.

The Garnet (36-9) have now won 13 straight games, including three wins in the NCAA New York Region Tournament. They beat No. 9 SUNY Cortland (34-11) on Friday and Baldwin Wallace (33-13) on Thursday.

It took a three-run eighth inning for Swarthmore to get past the Huskies (29-14) as the game was tied 6-6 up until that point.

Down 2-0 in the bottom of the third, the Garnet scored their first run on a single to center field by junior Charles Levitt.

Southern Maine expanded its lead to 4-1 in the fourth, but back-to-back solo home runs for Garnet sophomore Jared Gillen and freshman Coleson Hebble closed the gap. Gillen now has four homers this season, and Hebble has six, brining the team's total to a program-record 43 divided among 12 players.

The Garnet kept their foot on the gas, taking a 5-4 lead with two more runs in the fifth. Sophomore Cole Beeker drove one in on a single and he came around to score on a pass ball. Beeker has 64 RBIs this season, ranking him in a tie for sixth in the country. Swarthmore's previous single-season record was 46 set by Tim Kwilos in 2012.

In the sixth, sophomore AJ Liu provided the Garnet with an insurance run by scoring senior Matt Palmer on a single up the middle. Liu is 8-for-12 with one walk and two HBPs in the NCAA Tournament, making his on-base percentage .733 over that span.

With a 6-5 lead, sophomore relief pitcher Jack Corkery entered the game for sophomore Sawyer Lake in the seventh inning with one out and the bases loaded. Lake had seven strikeouts. Corkery got the first batter to hit a sacrifice fly that tied the game. The next batter grounded out. Corkery completed the game for Swarthmore and picked up his fourth win of the season. In the regional tournament, Corkey has two wins in 4.1 innings of work with three strikeouts and one earned run.

The bottom of the eighth is what sent Swarthmore to the final stage. Levitt hit a shot to right that got past a diving fielder and rolled to the wall for an RBI triple. Beeker scored Levitt on a grounded single down the right field line. Gillen drove in Beeker on a single up the middle.

Hebble fielded the game's final outs, a double-play in which he corralled a ground ball, stepped on second and fired to Beeker.

Liu, Levitt, Beeker, Gillen and juniors Conor Elliott and Jackson Roberts all had two of Swarthmore's 14 hits. This is the fifth game in a row in which the Garnet had 10-plus hits, tying the season-best streak that they set from April 10-17.

There were eight teams in the New York region, and four remain. The other three are the teams that Swarthmore has already beaten.

Baldwin Wallace, Cortland and Southern Maine will fight among each other on Sunday to try and face the Garnet in the final. If Southern Maine is the opponent, Swarthmore will face them on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. If the opponent is Baldwin Wallace or Cortland, the Garnet will play their next game on Monday at a time to be determined. No matter who Swarthmore plays, that team will have to beat the Garnet twice to win the region. Swarthmore only has to win once.