Southern States Athletic Conference

     MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Regular season champion Lee won twice on Saturday, the last a 13-8 come-from-behind victory over Southern Wesleyan that moves the third-ranked Flames into the Southern States Athletic Conference tournament championship game.

     Lee, 53-6 and the third-ranked team in the country, will face Auburn Montgomery at 1 p.m. Sunday at Faulkner's Harrison Field. The Flames beat the Senators in Saturday's first game 10-6. AUM earned the bye into the title game because it was the last team to lose a tournament game.

     Southern Wesleyan, 35-21, must now wait to see if it earns an at-large bid to the NAIA Region XIII tournament, set for May 6-10 in Cleveland, Tenn.

     Lee fell behind in both its victories Saturday. Against the Warriors, the Flames found themselves behind 5-1 through two innings. A single run in the third and a three-run fourth, assisted by a pair of Southern Wesleyan errors, tied the game at 5.

     It took only one more inning for the Flames to take control of the game. Josh Guy's grand slam was the major blow in the five-run fifth, giving Lee a 10-5 lead it would never relinquish. The Flames added three more in the sixth, two coming on a Chris Dubon homer, to put the game away. Lee had 17 hits in the game, with Jeremy Hutslar, Ryan Stovall and Dubon had three apiece, while Chris Warters and Guy added two each.

     Lee starter Mitch Davidson went eight innings to pick up the victory.

     Southern Wesleyan had seven players with two hits apiece - Kody Hightower, Brian Flanagan, Kellen Kmiecik, Brandon Brown, Craig Turner, Dustin Smith and Kenneth Wagner. Lincoln Miller took the loss for the Warriors.