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LWC Baseball drops game 5-4, in NAIA World Series Faulkner slips away late as Lindsey Wilson Baseball falls 5-4 at Avista-NAIA World Series. Team fights to keep season alive with matchup with AUM set for 2pmCT/12pmNoonPT, Mon 30 May 2016, at the Avista-NAIA World Series, at Harris Field, 500 8th Avenue, Lewiston, ID Click on headline for complete game story By Charles Balcom LEWISTON, IDAHO (Sun 29 May 2016) - Top-seeded Faulkner (Ala.) used a three-run eighth inning to escape an upset-minded Lindsey Wilson baseball team by a 5-4 margin in the Avista-NAIA Baseball World Series at Harris Field on Saturday night/Sunday morning. The Blue Raiders (43-24) led from the third inning through the top of the eighth, but things fell apart late as the No. 3-ranked Eagles (50-13) battled from behind to take the lead and were able to hold on for the win, sending the Blue Raiders down into the consolation bracket. Eighth-seeded Lindsey Wilson now faces sixth-seeded Auburn-Montgomery (Ala.) in an elimination game on Monday at 2pmCT/12pmPT. In a game that was supposed to start at 8:30pmCT but due to a marathon 14-inning game to start the day, things were pushed back significantly as first pitch was not tossed until 12:13 a.m. CT on Sunday morning. Lindsey Wilson won both meetings with Faulkner earlier this year during the regular season by 5-4 scores, but this time, the Eagles would come out with the 5-4 win. Things started slow offensively for both sides as the first two innings went by scoreless before the two teams combined for five runs in the third inning. After a leadoff pop out to start the third, Victor Nazario recorded the first Blue Raider hit of the day after he sent a double to the right-center gap. Dustin Woody then followed with a single up the middle. The Faulkner shortstop made a diving play for the ball, but it tipped off his glove, causing it to carry away from the charging centerfielder and into right field as Nazario came in to score for the 1-0 lead. With Caleb Ratzman running for Woody, Faulkner starter Christian Torres attempted a pickoff throw to first base, but it sailed wide and rolled all the way into right field, allowing the speedy Ratzman to race around the base paths to third. Alec Salcedo then made it 2-0 with a bunt single, a play where the Blue Raiders came up a bit lucky. As Salcedo squared to bunt, Torres charged to cover the bunt, but the ball sailed up over Torres' head and tipped off his glove to land harmlessly behind the mound as Ratzman scored for the 2-0 lead. Edgar Lebron followed with a triple that snuck just inside the bag at first base and rolled all the way down into the right-field corner, allowing Salcedo to speed on home for the 3-0 advantage. It marked the fourth-consecutive hit for the Blue Raiders. Aaron Ashton then turned a 0-2 count into a walk to put runners on the corners, but a double play ended the inning with Lebron stranded on third. Faulkner quickly responded with two runs in the bottom half of the third. After back-to-back singles and a wild pitch put runners on second and third, an infield single scored Faulkner's first run of the game. A failed sacrifice bunt attempt by the Eagles led to a fielder's choice for the first out of the inning, followed by a strikeout for the second. Another wild pitch once again moved the runners to second and third. A ground ball was then hit to short where Jan Carlos Ortiz was unable to field it cleanly as the second run came in. Faulkner tried to tie the game up on the play, but Ortiz recovered and quickly retrieved the ball and fired it home where Woody applied the tag on the runner attempting to score from second to keep Lindsey Wilson ahead 3-2. From there, chances were minimal for both sides for the next four innings. Ortiz led off the fourth with a single but was picked off from first. The next ten Blue Raiders were then retired until Ryan Harper hit a two-out single in the top of the seventh to end the streak. Faulkner threatened in the bottom half of the fifth after a pair of two-out singles put runners on the corners, but starting pitcher Aaron Doughty induced a ground ball to get out of the jam. The sixth and seventh went by scoreless with both sides managing just one hit each in the seventh frame. Lebron created a small scoring chance with a two-out single in the top of the eighth. He got caught out on a pickoff move to first, but he was able to use his speed to slide under the tag at second for a stolen base. Ashton, who was 0-for-2 on the day coming into the at-bat, capitalized on that scoring chance as he came up with a single up the middle on a full count to allow the speedy Lebron to score from second for the 4-2 lead. Doughty gave up a leadoff single in the bottom of the eighth and was lifted a short time later for Daniel Ferrell after tossing 115 pitches. The senior was masterful on the mound as Doughty scattered eight hits with three earned runs while striking out seven without issuing a walk, keeping the high-powered Faulkner offense in check for seven innings. Ferrell was unable to close the door on the Eagles after giving up a walk to the first batter he faced. Harper made a diving stop on a hard hit ball to third to get the runner heading to second on a fielder's choice. Faulkner's Mario Amaral hit a single up the middle to score one run as T.J. Condon moved to third on the batted ball and Amaral advanced to second on the throw to third. Deivy Palmeiro then smacked a ball that snuck just inside the right-field line that allowed both Condon and pinch runner Brandon Suttles to score and put Faulkner up 5-4. Ferrell finally brought the inning to a close with a pair of strikeouts. Brandon Munoz gave the Blue Raiders hope with a one-out single in the top of the ninth, but he was unable to move any further after a strikeout and groundout ended the game. Lindsey Wilson now fights to keep their season alive with a Monday matchup with AUM set for 2pmCT, Mon 30 2016, at the Avista-NAIA World Series, at Harris Field, 500 8th Avenue, Lewiston, ID. Charles Balcom is Assistant Sports Information Director for Lindsey Wilson College This story was posted on 2016-05-29 04:18:50
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