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Box Score 2 NASHVILLE, Tenn. - No. 2 seed Cedarville erased a four-run deficit to stun No. 1 Trevecca Nazarene, 6-5, to advance to the finals of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference Baseball Championship.
Earlier in the day, the Yellow Jackets took care of No. 3 Urbana, 8-1, in the tournament's first game.
TNU and Urbana square off at 1:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday in an elimination game. The winner plays CU at 4:30.
CEDARVILLE 6 TREVECCA NAZARENE 5
The Yellow Jackets, 26-14 overall, trailed the host Trojans, 5-4, entering the ninth inning.
Chris Ward and
David Lenhardt led off with back-to-back singles and both moved up a base on a wild pitch.
Ryan Ledbetter's RBI ground out tied it. Pinch hitter
Chris Fox was hit by a pitch to reload the bases and
Steve Cardwell walked to give Cedarville its first lead.
Winning pitcher
Sean Larkin, 5-1, allowed a one-out walk in the ninth before retiring the final two batters.
Larkin struck out six after coming on in relief in the fifth. He escaped a bases loaded, one-out jam in the seventh and got TNU to leave the bases full in the eighth after the Trojans had scored to break a 4-4 tie.
Cardwell had two hits including a double and two RBI's. Ward and Lenhardt contributed two hits and two runs apiece.
CEDARVILLE 8 URBANA 1
Against Urbana,
David Ledbetter and
Jordan Ammon held the Blue Knights hitless through seven innings while the offense built a 6-0 bulge.
Four Yellow Jacket pitchers combined to allow just one earned run on four hits. Ammon, 4-1, was credited with the victory.
Logan Kasabian finished 3-for-5 at the plate. Ward ripped two doubles,
Ryan Ledbetter totaled two hits and two RBI's, and Cardwell smacked a solo homer.