SSC TiqERS REpEAT
The Savannah
State College
baseball tea tn.
seeded fourth in
this year's tour
nament, defeated
second seeded
Lemoyne Owen
College 6-5 at BilLEvans Field in
College Park. Ga., to capture the
lc)96 Southern Intercollegiate
Athletics Conference Baseball
Championship for the second
consecutive year. Not only was it
the second consecutive crown for
the SSC team, it was also the
second consecutive time that ?
they did it in four games.
Jason Round tree
started the repeat per
formance by pitching ;
the Tigers to a 13-0
win over the
Golden Be a r s o f
Miles College.
R o u n d t r e e
allowed just
two hits while ?
the Tigers
g r o u n d e d
Miles' pitch
ing for tep
safeties
including a
third
inning
t hree- run
homer by
sophomore
right-fielder
Kelvin Faison.
Tiger left-fielder
Daryl Norman
went four for four in
the game with two
RBIs to pace the Tiger hitting.
The second Tiger tournament
game featured freshman pitcher
Matt Devlin, who pitched a one
hitter, struck out seven, and held
Albany State College, last year's
tourney runner-up. to one run in
seven innings.
Albany State's Eric Taylor
pitched a masterful game, giving
up one run in the second inning
on a walk to Tarik Smiley and a
run-scoring double to David
Radcliff. Taylor struck out 14
Tigers in the game, but gave
up three singles in the top of
the sixth, to take the 3-1 loss.
SSC was one step closer to the
crown.
Rain
dclay ed the
start of play
on the sec
ond day of
the tourney,
a n d S S C
had a day off
before having
to face
chAMDiONship SWEEP
the Magicians of Lemoyne
Owen College tor the first time
this year. At this point in the tour
ney, SSC and LOC were both
undefeated. Jason Roundtree got
his second call to the mound and
found himself in a tierce battle
Round tree's teammates staked
him to a 4-0 first inning lead,
when Lemoyne starter Richard
Moise gave up three walks and a
single. The lead was extended to
5-0 in the second when SSC's
* * Darvl Norman scored an
unearned run. Moise blanked
the Tigers for the next four
innings while the Magicians
i touched Roundtree for one in
? the fourth and five in the sixth
to give the magicians a 6-5 lead.
Three of the runs came on a
three-run homer bv J. Pay ton.
Savannah State regained the
lead in the top of the seventh on
. runs by Darvl Nor man.
L Brandon Jackson, and
Kelvin Fa i son. David
m Radcliff eatne on in the
seventh tor the Tigers to
get the save on two
ground outs and a strike
out to end the game. SSC
was now poised to
repeat their teat of a
year ago.
F r e s h m a n
starter, Brian
Low o. was the
SSC pitcher who
got the call for
the champi
onship g a m e
The LOC Magicians,
having"fought hack from the
loser's bracket, were the oppo
nents once again
Savannah State sent eight bat
ters to the plate in the first inning,
and Mike Bell, Daryl Norman and
Brandon Jackson scored, to gi\e
SSC a 3-0 lead.
Lemoyne scored two in the
first, and Lowe was relieved by
Dave Radcliff with one out
Radcliff, who started the game at
shortstop, retired the next two
batters. Radcliff handcuffed the
tyagicians for five innings before