Sunday, April 30th, 2006

Top-Seeded Baseball Team Advances To GSAC Championship Game

The Piedmont College baseball team held off elimination and advanced to the championship day of the 206 Great South Athletic Conference Championship with a 3-1 victory over second-seeded Huntingdon College. PC was put in the loser's bracked by virtue of a 13-3 loss to third-seeded LaGrange College earlier in the day.

In the first game, LC trailed 2-1 heading midway through the fourth inning but scored seven runs in the bottom half and never looked back. Travis Hunt led the Piedmont offense with a 3-5 day from the plate that included a run scored and two RBI's.

In the elimination game, PC scored single runs in the fourth and sixth innings before adding an inusurance run in the eighth inning. HC plated its only run in the bottom of the seventh. John Vohlken earned the victory on the mound scattering five hits in just over six innings of work. Hunt was a perfect 4-4 from the plate offensively.

The Lions (27-16) will now face LaGrange on Monday, May 1st and must defeat the Panthers twice to win the conference title.