SSAC News
Sat, Apr 28, 2007 - [Baseball]
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—Despite having only five hits, Southern Poly was able to take advantage of four Auburn University Montgomery errors to defeat the Senators 5-2 in the final winner’s bracket game of the Southern States Athletic Conference baseball tournament.
SPSU starter Tom Bradley (5-4) scattered ten hits, but only two runs, one earned. He kept the Senators off balance with his breaking ball and change up and caused several pop ups and weak ground outs to keep the Senators at bay in throwing a complete game.
SPSU’s Damion Overstreet started the scoring in the bottom of the second inning when he led off the inning with a home run, his second of the season. Just a few batters later, Collins Prescott doubled off the left centerfield wall to score Bud Long who had walked.
AUM cut the lead to one, as Junior Kelley collected his second hit of the game, driving in Ryan Nelson who had singled earlier.
SPSU pushed across two more runs in the bottom of the sixth, as they took advantage of two AUM errors to push across two unearned runs. The only hit of the inning came off the bat of Josh Grooms as he was able to sneak a ball past a drawn in infield. They then added another unearned run in the bottom of the seventh as Grooms once again singled to drive in Rick McCrae.
Prescott finished the game with two of the Runnin’ Hornets hits and Grooms and Overstreet had the other two hits.
AUM had one final shot in the top of the ninth as Davis Lambert led the inning off with a single and moved to second when Pearson walked. Bradley once again put a stop to the rally as he struck out Patrick Reeves.
Kelley had three hits to lead the AUM attack and had an RBI. Eight of the nine AUM starters had hits for the Senators.
Ryan Butler (4-1) took the loss for the Senators. He only allowed two hits, but was in constant trouble as he walked three batters in his three innings on the mound.
Timmy Morgan came in and did a nice job of keeping the Senators in the game until he took a line drive off the shin and had to leave the game. Allen Ponder then came in and retired the SPSU hitters the rest of the way.
With the win, SPSU (43-15) is the lone undefeated team in the tournament and will play Berry College tomorrow at 1 p.m. AUM (45-10) will fall into a loser’s bracket game and will face Lee University in tomorrow’s second game of the day at 4 p.m. The two winners’s will then face each other at 7 p.m.
SPSU starter Tom Bradley (5-4) scattered ten hits, but only two runs, one earned. He kept the Senators off balance with his breaking ball and change up and caused several pop ups and weak ground outs to keep the Senators at bay in throwing a complete game.
SPSU’s Damion Overstreet started the scoring in the bottom of the second inning when he led off the inning with a home run, his second of the season. Just a few batters later, Collins Prescott doubled off the left centerfield wall to score Bud Long who had walked.
AUM cut the lead to one, as Junior Kelley collected his second hit of the game, driving in Ryan Nelson who had singled earlier.
SPSU pushed across two more runs in the bottom of the sixth, as they took advantage of two AUM errors to push across two unearned runs. The only hit of the inning came off the bat of Josh Grooms as he was able to sneak a ball past a drawn in infield. They then added another unearned run in the bottom of the seventh as Grooms once again singled to drive in Rick McCrae.
Prescott finished the game with two of the Runnin’ Hornets hits and Grooms and Overstreet had the other two hits.
AUM had one final shot in the top of the ninth as Davis Lambert led the inning off with a single and moved to second when Pearson walked. Bradley once again put a stop to the rally as he struck out Patrick Reeves.
Kelley had three hits to lead the AUM attack and had an RBI. Eight of the nine AUM starters had hits for the Senators.
Ryan Butler (4-1) took the loss for the Senators. He only allowed two hits, but was in constant trouble as he walked three batters in his three innings on the mound.
Timmy Morgan came in and did a nice job of keeping the Senators in the game until he took a line drive off the shin and had to leave the game. Allen Ponder then came in and retired the SPSU hitters the rest of the way.
With the win, SPSU (43-15) is the lone undefeated team in the tournament and will play Berry College tomorrow at 1 p.m. AUM (45-10) will fall into a loser’s bracket game and will face Lee University in tomorrow’s second game of the day at 4 p.m. The two winners’s will then face each other at 7 p.m.
