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If you stayed up until the end of that 16-inning game between Wheaton and Curry last night, like I did, you’re probably heavy into your caffeine provider of choice by now. But to watch Curry relievers Eric Lochiatto and Cory Moore go toe to toe with a New England power was fascinating to watch.

Hopefully Curry’s gutty performance on Day 1 will be long remembered.

But even that is overshadowed by the incredible individual performance by Jordan Baitinger of Ripon. The no-hitter first came to my attention after five innings, when I was updating the Scoreboard page. I checked back in in the seventh, tuned in for the eighth, and set up John McGraw, our broadcaster for the New York regional, to do a ESPN-style live lookin for the ninth inning.

Kudos to St. Olaf’s Mike Ludwig for a great call of the game and making it available on the Net.

What’s left for Wheaton? Surprisingly, their pitching staff might be in good shape. Chris McDonough went the first seven and a third and is obviously unavailable. Josh Simmons threw the 13th-16th and faced 16 batters in his four innings. But Keith Pescosolido and Pat Martin threw just two innings each.

So we had a game that tied the longest game in NCAA playoff history and the first no-hitter since 1980.

What a night. Only hope that Day 2 can live up to Day 1. And with elimination games Mid-Atlantic, West and Central today, there should be plenty of drama.

Like yesterday, let’s keep each other up to date on what’s going on here on the Daily Dose. The door is open.