Quakers earn OAC Tournament berth

Team splits with BW, gets 3rd seed in tournament

|GAME 1 BOX SCORE|

|GAME 2 BOX SCORE|

May 7, 2005


Kenny Branscom

BEREA, Ohio – The Wilmington College Quaker baseball team earned their first ever berth into the Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament, splitting a double header with Baldwin-Wallace by 5-1, 2-12 scores. The team clinches the third seed in the tournament held at Marietta College on Thursday, May 12 through May 14.

In the first game, the 5-1 victory, the Green and White reached the scoreboard first when Jamison George (Washington C.H./Miami Trace) hit a sacrifice fly that scored Ben Buehner (Germantown/Valley View), who hit his 20th double of the season to start the game. The Yellow Jackets answered with a run of their own in the bottom of the inning, before the Green and White took the lead for good when Ben Butler (Beavercreek/Carroll) hit a two-run home run in the top of the third inning, scoring Taylor Clark (Morrow/McCallie, Tenn.).

Two more runs in the top of the sixth inning added insurance for the Green and White in the four run win.

Butler was 2-for-3 in the game with a pair of runs scored and a pair driven in, as Clark was 2-for-4. Kenny Branscom (Chillicothe) picked up the victory, pitching five innings and striking out three before George came in for relief, pitching a pair of scoreless innings in picking up his fifth save of the season.

In the second game the Yellow Jackets scored five runs over the first two innings and never looked back, cruising to the 12-2 run.

With the first-game victory, the team secured their spot in the championships, earning the third seed when Heidelberg fell to Mount Union.

With the split, the Quakers go to 22-13 on the season and 11-7 in the OAC, after having an eight-game win streak snapped in the season finale. Baldwin-Wallace goes to 18-12 overall and 10-8 in league action

The next game for the Green and White is on Thursday, May 12 when the team takes on Otterbein College with the first pitch set for 3:30 p.m. at Pioneer Park in Marietta, Ohio.

  

 
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