Golden Rams advance in SIAC tournament with win over Miles

The Albany State Golden Rams continued in their quest for a SIAC Tournament Championship with a 12-9 win over the Miles Golden Bears. Albany State pushes its record to 28-16 and will face Kentucky State in an elimination contest later tonight. Miles ends its season with an 18-21 record.

ASU began the scoring early in the contest, pushing four runs across the plate in the opening inning and two more in the second. After Miles scored in the top of the second inning, the Rams scored again in the third as Albany State built a 7-1 lead after three innings of play.
Neither team would change the scoreboard in the fourth and fifth inning, but both teams would add three runs in the sixth inning, changing the score to 10-4 after six innings of action.

In the top of the seventh inning, Miles scored five runs on five hits as they cut the deficit to 10-9. Albany State responded a run in the bottom of the seventh and eighth innings for the final tally.

In the game, Gregory Pollet, Gary Mason, Aaron Williams, Jimmy Brown and Kevin Harris each had two hits for Miles. Jacob Campbell led Albany State going 4-for-5 with four runs scored and four runs batted in. Reise McDaniel went 3-for-5 with three runs scored and Ryan Latner finished the game going2-for-3 with a run scored.

Allen Fender (3-3) worked six innings striking out two and walking three for the win. Justin Landgale (3-3) worked 7.2 innings allowing three walks in the game.

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