The Golden Rams SIAC Championship aspirations ended with an (7-8) loss to the Spring Hill College Badgers on Sunday evening at the ASU West Campus.
After losing game #1 of the SIAC Tournament to Morehouse (3-5), the Goldens Rams defeated Clark-Atlanta (17-7), Savannah State (4-3), Morehouse (10-6) and Miles (14-7) to reach the championship game against Spring Hill.
In the 1
st inning, Williams homered to left field to give the Badgers a (1-0) lead.
The Badgers increased the lead to (2-0) in the 3
rd inning when Morgan doubled to right field to score Williams. The Golden Rams responded in the 3
rd inning when
Zane Ross singled to score Tyler Jordan and advance
Lavoisier Fisher to second base. With the bases loaded in the 3
rd inning,
Nicholas Hernandez hit a grand slam to give the Golden Rams a (5-2) lead.
In the 4
th inning, Walker hit a 3-run homer to left field to tie the game at (5-5).
The Badgers added 3 more runs in the 7
th inning to give them an (8-5) lead. But, the Golden Rams
Nicholas Hernandez doubled to center to score
Lavoisier Fisher and
Lachlan Ross to cut the lead to (7-8).
That would as close as the Golden Rams would get as they failed to score in the final two innings.
The Golden Rams finished with 7 runs and 10 hits, while leaving 6 men on base.
Lavoisier Fisher finished with 3 hits while
Zane Ross and Nick Hernandez had 2 hits each.
Lachlan Ross,
Nate Lloyd and
Hill Corley had a hit for the Golden Rams.
Nicholas Hernandez had 6 RBIs while
Zane Ross had 1.
Chase Karn (4 innings),
John Luegering (3 innings) and
Tyler Wagner (2 innings) pitched for the Golden Rams.
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