Montgomery, Ala.—It was a battle of two old Southern States Athletic Conference foes as Lee University and Georgia Southwestern met in an elimination game at the AUM Baseball Complex in NAIA Region XIII Baseball action.

Lee Defeats Georgia Southwestern In Elimination Contest

Montgomery, Ala.—It was a battle of two old Southern States Athletic Conference foes as Lee University and Georgia Southwestern met in an elimination game at the AUM Baseball Complex in NAIA Region XIII Baseball action.

Lee University got to Ga. Southwestern starter Jay Perdue early and often as they knocked him out of the game after only two and two-thirds innings of work.  Looking closely at Perdue’s line score may not jump out at you as he allowed only five hits during his time of work, but of those five hits, four left the ball yard, including two from Aaron Simmons.  Also, the game did not start out well as SSAC and Region XIII Player-of-the-Year, Andrew Shaver, hit Perdue’s first pitch of the game over the center field fence.  It was surely a sign of things to come.

Simmons finished the game going three for four at the plate with the two home runs and five RBI’s and two runs scored.  He teamed up with his brother Travis, who was two for two at the plate with a home runs and two RBI’s and also chipped in with three runs scored.

Together the brothers had five of Lee’s seven hits seven of its nine RBI’s and scored five of the team’s nine runs.

Georgia Southwestern did not go quietly as they fought back to cut the lead to 6-4 in the sixth inning.  The final two runs coming on Carlos Height’s two run homer in the top of the inning.

Lee answered right back with three more runs in the bottom of the inning to effectively put the game out of reach.  Lee’s pitching staff once again was superb as Gabe Seten went six innings allowing only three hits and the four runs in moving his record to 8-4.  Blake Kearney and Michael Oberg pitched the final three innings allowing no hits and no runs.

Perdue’s record fell to 5-7 while Georgia Southwestern’s season came to an end at 31-25.  Lee (42-17) will now play LSU-Shreveport on Saturday.  If LSUS defeats AUM, the game will be for the championship.  If LSUS falls to AUM, then the two teams will meet in an elimination game at noon.

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