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17 base finale
2
Wheeling Jesuit WJU 28-18, 21-10 MEC
9
Winner West Liberty WLU 6-35, 5-23 MEC
Wheeling Jesuit WJU
28-18, 21-10 MEC
2
Final
9
West Liberty WLU
6-35, 5-23 MEC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Wheeling Jesuit WJU 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 4 0
West Liberty WLU 2 3 0 4 0 0 X 9 5 1

W: Mitchell Viakley (0-0) L: Finch, Michael (3-4)

3
Winner Wheeling Jesuit WJU 29-19, 21-11 MEC
2
West Liberty WLU 7-35, 6-24 MEC
Winner
Wheeling Jesuit WJU
29-19, 21-11 MEC
3
Final
2
West Liberty WLU
7-35, 6-24 MEC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Wheeling Jesuit WJU 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 8 0
West Liberty WLU 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 7 0

W: Sunnafrank, Dillon (0-0) L: Nolan Marcus (0-0)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Chris Myers

Brake RBI Single and Sunnafrank Pitching Gives Coach Edwards Finale Victory

WHEELING, W.Va. – The end of an era with a final 'W' in the win column. Wheeling Jesuit seniors Chris Brake drove a top of the seventh RBI single and Dillon Sunnafrank kept West Liberty off the scoreboard for the 3-2 season finale win and sent long-time Cardinals head coach Terry Edwards out with one last win.
 
Tied at 2-2, Brake lined a single through the right side of the infield to bring home senior Carter Sancomb with the go ahead run. After two outs in the home seventh, Sunnafrank hit a batter and allowed two singles to load the bases. The veteran pitcher, though, enticed a liner to right field gloved knee-level by Zach Blumling to end the contest and 3-2 WJU (7-35/6-24 Mountain East Conference North Division).
 
West Liberty (29-19/21-11 MEC North) scored nine runs in the first four innings of the opener and clinched the North Division's regular season runner-up spot.
 
Sunnafrank led the WJU hitters with a double and two singles, one run and a stolen base in the twinbill. He logged the complete-game game two win where he allowed seven hits, two earned runs and fanned eight Hilltopper hitters.
 
Sancomb and Adam Dennison added two singles apiece, while Logan Schickler lined a two-run double. Jagger Bruck, Brake, Drake May, RJ Harris and TJ Jacob added hits.
 
Game 1
West Liberty put the first runs on the scoreboard in the home first. Coby Eckstein lined a two-run single up the middle. Ethan Estes doubled home three runners in the second for a 5-0 lead.
 
In the top of the fourth, Harris led off by being hit by a pitch for the Cardinals. Dennison singled and Bobby Truelove walked. Harris would score on a Hilltoppers error, before Jacob brought home Dennison on a single to pull within 5-2.
 
West Liberty answered with four more scores in the fourth frame and held WJU scoreless for the 9-2 final.
 
Game 2
The Cardinals took their turn for the opening runs. In the top of the first, May led off with a single to centerfield and Brake sacrificed him to second. Following a Sunnafrank double, Schickler drove home both runners on his two-bagger to center field for a 2-0 advantage.
 
In the home third, Mike Adams lined a solid single up the middle to tie the game for West Liberty, 2-2.
 
After three scoreless innings, WJU made its final at bat count. Sancomb led off with a single through the left side and Blumling sacrificed him to second. With two outs, Brake connected on a single through West Liberty's right side for the go ahead score, 3-2.
 
With the Blumling runner catch on the two-out liner, Cardinals coach Edwards heads to his coaching retirement on a winning note.


 
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