Posted by Jay Stancil - Thu, May 3, 2007 - [Baseball] - Viewed 942 times
Top-seeded Tennessee Wesleyan and No. 2 seed Montreat have advanced to the winners' bracket finale in the Appalachian Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament at Hunter Wright Stadium in Kingsport, Tenn.
Union will also be playing UVa-Wise on Friday at 3 p.m. after Tennessee Wesleyan and Montreat play at 11:30 a.m.
Game 5 - Milligan 16, Bluefield 7 Milligan posted seven runs in the ninth inning to seal the win.
Heading into the top of the ninth, the Buffaloes led 9-7, but the seven-run rally put the game out of reach and eliminated Bluefield from the tournament.
Game 6 - UVA-Wise 12, Bryan 4 Bryan put up a fight, but UVA-Wise was able to hang on for the 12-4 win.
The Cavaliers jumped out to a 6-0 advantage, but Bryan rallied and trialed 8-4 late. UVA-Wise tacked on four more runs to wrap up the win and knock the Lions out of the tournament.
Game 7 - Montreat 16, King 5 - Box Score Montreat scored nine runs in the first inning and never looked back as it won 16-5.
The Cavaliers sent 15 batters to the plate in the bottom of the first and went through three King pitchers to grab a 9-0 lead.
Justin Reising belted a three-run home run in the third to pull King within 9-3, but Montreat tacked four in the bottom of the third and three more in the fifth. King scored twice more in the ninth, but it was too little, too late as Montreat won 16-5.
Mitch Williams and Kyle Cooper both went 4-for-5 with three RBIs.
Game 8 - Tennessee Wesleyan 7, Union 3 - Box Score Tennessee Wesleyan scored four runs late to hold off Union 7-3.
Up 3-2 in the seventh, Tennessee Wesleyan scored a pair of runs off of two sac flies. Union maded it 5-3 in the bottom of the frame, but Tennessee Wesleyan scored two more times in the eighth on a Zac Bowman home run and a Michael Jenkins sac fly.
Daniel Lynn went 2-for-2 with a solo home run, while Dean McDermond went 2-for-4 with a solo home run.
Game 9 - Union 11, Milligan 1 - Box Score Rob Andres struck out eight and Chaz Bargo pitched the final 3 2/3 innings to record his ninth save of a season as Union posted an 11-1 win over Milligan, eliminating the Buffaloes from the tournament.
Union scored three runs in the first and never looked back. Josh Ehringer belted a grand slam in the seventh. Joe Grinstead went 4-for-5 with two RBIs and two runs scored. Kevin Ramos and Justin Hart also drove in two.
Game 10 - UVA-Wise 13, King 9 (14 innings) - Box Score In what has to rank as one of the wildest games ever in AAC Tournament history, UVA-Wise scored four runs in the top of the 14th inning to pull out the 13-9 win over King.
UVA-Wise jumped out to a 6-0 lead after fifth and a half innings, but King clawed its way back into the game, eventually tying the game on a controversial call in the bottom of the ninth with two outs. The game went into extra innings with each team matching each other run for run.
In the 14th, Alan Stoupa singled in a run, Matt Hall walked with the bases loaded to knock in another, Jorge Laboy singled in a run and John Bigley hit a sac fly to account for the fourth run.
Josh Verts went 6-for-8 at the plate with four doubles and three RBIs. Laboy had three hits and three RBIs as well.
For King, Joe Craven went 4-for-6 with two runs scored and a RBI, while Justin Reising and Ryan Kennedy each drove in two runs.
The teams combined for 22 runs, 42 hits, 10 errors and 41 men left on base.
