Friday, May 22
Paducah, Ky.
6:30 p.m.
Jacksonville State University
12
vs
13
Tennessee Tech University
JSU Falls in 10 Innings to Tennessee Tech
5/22/2009 11:04:33 PM | Baseball
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PADUCAH, Ky – Casanova Donaldson had a RBI single in the bottom of the tenth inning to lead Tennessee Tech to a 13-12 win over Jacksonville State in the winner's bracket of the 2009 Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Championship on Friday night.
Jacksonville State will face Murray State at 12 p.m. on Saturday, with the winner advancing to face Tech in the Championship game at 3:30 p.m.
TTU's Lee Henry (9-2) had two strikeouts and allowed just one hit in 1 1/3 innings to earn the win, while JSU's Bill Henke (2-2) gave up two hits in the tenth to suffer the loss.
Trailing 12-8 headed into the ninth inning, the Gamecocks rallied to score four runs to tie the game at 12-12. Andrew Edge had a bases loaded walk, Blake Seguin had a two-RBI single and Kyle Bluestein had a RBI infield single to tie the game and help erase a four-run deficit.
Chad Oberaker led off the home half of the tenth with a single and stole second. Henke retired the next two batters, before Donaldson had the single through the right side for the game winning run.
JSU took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on a RBI single by Bluestein, but Tech plated three runs to take a 3-1 lead off Gamecock starter Ben Tootle. Tootle only lasted 1/3 inning after giving up three runs, a pair of hits and two walks.
The Gamecocks cut the lead in the third on a RBI double by Steven Leach, but Tech answered with a pair of runs in the home half of the inning on back-to-back home runs by A.J. Kirby-Jones and Ben Burgess as TTU built a 5-2 lead.
Jacksonville State cut the lead to 5-4 in the fourth on a two-run home run by Jake Sharrock, but Tech extended the lead to 9-4 in the fifth inning.
JSU battled back to make the score 9-7 in the sixth inning after Sharrock scored on a throwing error and Leach drove in two more runs, but Tech answered with two in the home half of the sixth to extend the lead to 11-7. Both teams scored a run in the seventh, before the Gamecocks rallied to force extra innings.
Leach led the Gamecocks with three hits, while Cunningham, Bluestein, Adamson and Sharrock each had a pair of hits and Leach finished with three RBI.
Donaldson, Kirby-Jones and Oberaker each had three hits to lead Tennessee Tech at the plate, but Kirby-Jones did surrender the final three runs in the ninth inning to the Gamecocks.
PADUCAH, Ky – Casanova Donaldson had a RBI single in the bottom of the tenth inning to lead Tennessee Tech to a 13-12 win over Jacksonville State in the winner's bracket of the 2009 Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Championship on Friday night.
Jacksonville State will face Murray State at 12 p.m. on Saturday, with the winner advancing to face Tech in the Championship game at 3:30 p.m.
TTU's Lee Henry (9-2) had two strikeouts and allowed just one hit in 1 1/3 innings to earn the win, while JSU's Bill Henke (2-2) gave up two hits in the tenth to suffer the loss.
Trailing 12-8 headed into the ninth inning, the Gamecocks rallied to score four runs to tie the game at 12-12. Andrew Edge had a bases loaded walk, Blake Seguin had a two-RBI single and Kyle Bluestein had a RBI infield single to tie the game and help erase a four-run deficit.
Chad Oberaker led off the home half of the tenth with a single and stole second. Henke retired the next two batters, before Donaldson had the single through the right side for the game winning run.
JSU took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on a RBI single by Bluestein, but Tech plated three runs to take a 3-1 lead off Gamecock starter Ben Tootle. Tootle only lasted 1/3 inning after giving up three runs, a pair of hits and two walks.
The Gamecocks cut the lead in the third on a RBI double by Steven Leach, but Tech answered with a pair of runs in the home half of the inning on back-to-back home runs by A.J. Kirby-Jones and Ben Burgess as TTU built a 5-2 lead.
Jacksonville State cut the lead to 5-4 in the fourth on a two-run home run by Jake Sharrock, but Tech extended the lead to 9-4 in the fifth inning.
JSU battled back to make the score 9-7 in the sixth inning after Sharrock scored on a throwing error and Leach drove in two more runs, but Tech answered with two in the home half of the sixth to extend the lead to 11-7. Both teams scored a run in the seventh, before the Gamecocks rallied to force extra innings.
Leach led the Gamecocks with three hits, while Cunningham, Bluestein, Adamson and Sharrock each had a pair of hits and Leach finished with three RBI.
Donaldson, Kirby-Jones and Oberaker each had three hits to lead Tennessee Tech at the plate, but Kirby-Jones did surrender the final three runs in the ninth inning to the Gamecocks.
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