The Boston College baseball team fell one game and five runs short in its quest to scratch a 49-year itch this past weekend, but Hendricken product Mike King had a Saturday to remember for more than one reason.

The former Hawk righty started the day by getting the ball for the Eagles in their do-or-die battle with Miami in the second game of their best-of-three super regional series after BC dropped the opening contest to the Hurricanes 12-7 the night before.

Much like his previous outing against Utah a week to the day, King experienced difficulty in the first inning, but this time around was able to work his way out of it by picking up a pair of strikeouts and stranding a pair of Miami baserunners to keep the game scoreless.

He continued to keep the Hurricanes off the scoreboard in the next two frames, striking out the side in the second before facing the minimum once again in the third, the latter aided by Carl Chester’s unsuccessful attempt to steal second base.

King’s luck ran out in the top of the fourth, however, as Zach Collins broke the scoreless deadlock with a solo shot that landed beyond the right field fence before Jacob Heyward’s base hit drove home Brandon Lopez to double Miami’s lead.

The Eagle response was swift and severe, as they bailed out King in the bottom half by stringing together four runs of their own, kicking things off with a home run by Donovan Casey before taking full advantage of a pair of Hurricane errors to take a lead that they would not relinquish for the rest of the contest.

One of the men responsible for the Miami errors, second baseman Johnny Ruiz, then redeemed himself in the Hurricane half of the fifth by drilling a triple down the right field line with two out to bring home Lopez, thus cutting the deficit in half.

King was then able to prevent any further damage by forcing Willie Abreu to fly out to left field on the first pitch he saw to strand Ruiz 90 feet from tying the contest.

He then went on to face the minimum in the sixth inning before yielding to the BC bullpen, which then went on to hurl three innings of shutout ball to preserve a history-making 5-3 victory.

It marked the first time that a school from New England won a super regional game, as the region’s only previous participant, Connecticut, was swept in its appearance versus South Carolina in 2011.

In the end, King scattered nine hits and struck out six for his eighth win of the season, becoming the first Eagle pitcher since 2010 to reach that total in a single season.

After playing his role in setting up a winner-take-all Game 3, news filtered through that King had been selected by the Miami Marlins in the 12th round of the Major League Baseball draft, becoming one of five Boston College players to be picked during the three-day selection meeting.

The following day marked the end of the road for the BC nine, as Miami denied the Eagles a first trip to Omaha since 1967 courtesy of a 9-4 triumph that was aided in large part by a four-run second inning to open the scoring and a Edgar Michelangeli grand slam in the seventh. Rinn drafted by Royals

Warwick native and former Moses Brown standout Robby Rinn’s hard work on the diamond for Bryant University over the last four springs paid off last Saturday, as his name was among those called in the Major League Baseball amateur draft.

The now-former Bulldog was tabbed in the 25th round of the annual selection meeting by the defending World Series champion Kansas City Royals and was one of three Bryant players to be taken this year.

Rinn concluded his career at the collegiate level with a senior campaign that saw him earn Player of the Year honors from the Northeast Conference and a Second-Team All-America nod from the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper.

Statistically, he led the Bulldogs in batting average (.373), doubles (25), triples (4) and runs batted in (63), while his 54 runs scored were good enough for second, two off the team lead.