MASON, Ohio - Senior pitcher #T.J. Taylor# tossed all 10 innings, but No. 4 Cedarville and top-seeded Southeastern finished in a 2-2 draw via a time limit in the final game of pool play at the NCCAA National Tournament.

If one thought CU's 1-1 nine-inning deadlock with Malone on opening night was a rarity, a second one less than 48 hours later is nearly unbelievable. The Jackets entered the tournament with only four ties ever in its baseball history and just one in the past 21 years.

All of the scoring was done early. Cedarville pushed across an unearned run in the bottom of the first when Andrew York delivered a two-out single to score Tyler Rost.

The Fire responded with a two-run home run in the second to take a 2-1 lead. However, Nate Davenport hammered a towering two-out solo bomb to left in the third for his 11th homer of the season to knot the score at 2-2. It was also his 61st RBI of the campaign.

That was it for the offense as Taylor and a group of five Southeastern hurlers fired blanks the rest of the way. Taylor allowed two earned runs on six hits with four strikeouts and three walks.

The Jackets had a couple chances to win it. They got a runner to third with one out in the sixth inning and came up empty. Their first two batters reached in the eighth and, one out later, Davenport's long drive to left center was tracked down on a diving game-saving catch.

Cedarville finished with two ties and two losses in pool play to end the season 33-18-2 which is the most wins in school history. Southeastern, 2-1-1 in the pool, finishes 43-20-1.

NCCAA pool play rules stipulate that a new inning cannot start after 2 hours and 15 minutes of playing time has elapsed.

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