Florida Southern Knocks Out Tusculum From Baseball Regional

Florida Southern Knocks Out Tusculum From Baseball Regional
May 19, 2007

TAMPA -- The 2007 baseball season came to an end for Tusculum College as No. 17 Florida Southern took advantage of five TC errors en route to a 15-7 win over the 10th-ranked Pioneers Saturday night in the elimination final of the NCAA Division II South Regional. With the win, the Mocassins (43-17) advance to Sunday's regional final against top-ranked Tampa. Tusculum ends the year with a 50-14 record, establishing numerous school and conference records for wins and games played in a season.

Two of those five TC miscues came in Florida Southern's nine-run, third inning as the Mocs rallied from a 3-2 deficit to jump out to an 11-3 advantage. Tusculum cut the deficit to 11-5 with three runs in the seventh, but the FSC answered with two runs in the seventh and eighth innings to put the contest out of reach.

The Mocs posted 16 hits, including four hits each by Arden McWilliams and Will Cherry, while David Golliner and Fred Popp each went 3-for-5.

Tusculum accounted for nine hits, including two hits by Maikol Gonzalez and one hit each by Matt Webb, Paul Finger, Aaron Porter, Danny Light, Marc Hyndsman, Eric Barclay and Andrew Winslow.

Adam Baust picked up the win (5-0) in relief as he tossed the final 6.2 innings as he scattered six hits, allowed four runs, one earned, walked four and struck out seven. TC starter Brandon Tuten suffered the loss to fall to 5-4 on the year.

#17 Florida Southern 15, #10 Tusculum 7 (May 19, 2007 at Tampa, Fla.)
NCAA Division II South Regional (Elimination Bracket Final)
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Tusculum............ 102 000 310 - 7 9 5 (50-14)
Florida Southern.... 209 000 22X - 15 16 3 (43-15)
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E - A. Hudgins 3; M. Hyndsman; Eric Barclay; Shields 2; Davidson. DP - FL Southern 1. LOB - Tusculum 11; FL Southern 12. 2B - Matt Webb; McWilliams; Brown; Cherry. 3B - McWilliams. HBP - C. Rivera; Patrick; Rainone. SH - Brown; Schultz. SF - Schultz; Shields. SB - Brown; Cherry; Shields.
Pitchers: Tusculum - B. Tuten; Carlos Ortiz(3); Eric Donahue(3); M. Handley(3); Tio McLean(7) and Christian Rosa, Adam Wilson. Florida Southern - Davidson; Baust(3) and David Golliner. Win-Adam Baust(5-0) Loss-Brandon Tuten(5-4) T-3:08 A-145