MOUNT BERRY, Ga. —Emory University knocked Marietta College out of the NCAA Division III Baseball South Regional Tournament with an 8-0 win Thursday (May 19) afternoon at Bowdoin Field on the campus of Berry College. With the loss, the Etta Express finishes the season with a 28-17 record.
The Eagles scored one run in the first and fourth innings and then plated five in the fifth inning for a 7-0 lead. An insurance run in the ninth made it 8-0.
Junior Hans Hansen (9-1) went the distance on the mound for Emory scattering seven hits and striking our five.
Tommy Crowl (Cincinnati, Ohio/Summit Country Day) (5-4) started for the Pioneers and was tagged with the loss. Crowl threw four innings and allowed five runs on seven hits with one walk.
David Stover (Pittsburgh, Pa./Thomas Jefferson) gave up two runs on five hits in three innings of relief, while
Scott Oberhelman (Washington Twp., N.J./Old Tappan) worked 1 1/3 innings and allowed a run on one hit.
Kordell Antill (Woodsfield, Ohio/Monroe Central) tossed the final 2/3 of an inning.
Emory's Davis Coble led off the game with a walk and moved to third on a single from Wilson Morgan. After Morgan stole second, Brian Hernandez hit a sac fly to right scoring Coble.
In the fourth, Dylan Eisner led off with a single to right field and then took second base with some aggressive base running. Philip Maldari popped out to the Pioneer catcher
Eric White (North Royalton, Ohio/North Royalton) at the backstop, but Eisner tagged on the play and beat the throw to second.
Chris Slivka was the next Eagle batter and he flew out to right. Again, Eisner tagged and moved over to third. Bubby Terp followed with an RBI single for a 2-0 Eagle lead. Terp would finish 4-for-5 with three RBI on the day.
Emory sent nine hitters to the plate in the five-run fifth inning. Hernandez, Eisner, Maldari, Slivka and Terp each drove in a run in the rally.
The Pioneers put their lead off batter on base in the eighth and ninth innings but were unable to produce any runs.
Brandon Papp (Uniontown, Ohio/Green) singled to start the eighth and
Tim McCoy (Willoughby, Ohio/St. Ignatius) led off the ninth with a double down the right field line.
Mike Hale (Dayton, Ohio/Northmont) was the lone Pioneer with two hits in the game.
The loss brings to a close the careers of four Marietta seniors. McCoy,
Doug Bennett (New Castle, Pa./Shenango),
Christian Herstine (Beaver, Pa./Beaver Area) and
Tyler Packanik (Plant City, Fla./Newsome) finish their careers in the pinstripes with two Ohio Athletic Conference regular season championships, two OAC Tournament titles and four NCAA Tournament appearances.
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