TYSONS, Va. -- Rhode Island won its third Atlantic 10 Baseball Championship Saturday, topping George Mason, 4-1 in the championship final in front of a sell out crowd at Capital One Park.

DJ Perron, the championship’s Most Outstanding Player, his a second-inning two-run home run that gave the Rams the lead and eventual win. The regular season champions and top seed for the championship, Rhody (38-20) also earns the A-10’s automatic bid to NCAA Regionals.

The URI pitching staff combined for a brilliant game, allowing just one run on five hits with seven combined strikeouts. Starter Jake Cullen went 4.1 innings and allowed just the one run on three hits. Parker Aikens (4-2) got the win, allowing two hits and no runs. Closer Joe Sabbath, who picked up his eighth save on the season, put zeros across the board in 1.1 innings of work.

Perron’s homer, which also plated Hopko, erased a one-run George Mason lead. The second-seeded Patriots (40-21), who had a propensity to score in the first inning the entire championship, did it again off the bat of All-Championship selection Jake Butler.  Butler’s RBI single scored Owen Clyne, who was also named All-Championship.

Rhody had a third run in the second on a McKenzie double that scored Penney. George Mason, which had been aggressive on offense the entire championship, scatted single runs across the rest of the game, and a Nic Notarangelo sacrifice fly that scored Moroney added an insurance run that the Rams eventually didn’t need.

Patriots ace Brandon Cassedy (8-2), who was stellar early in the week in GM’s opening game of the championship, took the loss, allowing four hits and three runs on the short rest start. Daniel Elliott and Connor O’Hara, both of whom also pitched earlier in the week, combined for four hits and one run with four strikeouts.

Joining Perron, Clyne, and Butler on the All-Championship Team were Notarangelo and Anthony DePino from Rhode Island, George Mason’s Logan Rumberg and James Quinn-Irons, Eli Putnam and Noah Jouras of Davidson, Saint Louis’ Josh Cunningham and Dayton’s JJ Gatti.