Baseball Heads to Postseason With Series Win
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Game 1
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By Mike DeVader, Reinhardt Director of Athletic Communications & Media
CLEVELAND, Ga. – No. 25 Reinhardt ended the regular season on a high note with a 5-3 victory on the road over Truett McConnell (Ga.) under the lights in Cleveland.
With the positive outcome, the Eagles improved to 31-17 overall and locked up second place within the league at 17-12.
"Very proud of our guys and the fight they showed," head coach Jonathan Burton said. "That was a highly-competitive game and felt like postseason baseball.
"We all start 0-0 now, but this was a good way to begin what we hope is a long tournament run."
The first three innings were quiet, but the scoring started with one swing of the bat after Albert Mora went deep to left for a 1-0 lead. The Bears, however, tied the score thanks to an error in the bottom of the frame and then took a 3-1 advantage after single tallies in the fifth and sixth on another error and a hit-by-pitch.
Nick Sanders got an RBI on a groundout in the seventh (3-2) and then the visitors regained the upper-hand with two scores in the eighth – singles by Jarrett Burney and TJ Worley.
Jackson Sisk then singled down the right-field line to get the hometown team to the 5-3 final.
Mora and Burney both had two hits in the triumph, and on the mound, Alex Watkins grabbed the positive outcome after finishing the game's final 3.1 innings and striking out five.
Stay tuned for information on the AAC Championship in the near future.
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