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Coakley leads Cougars over Roane State

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Connor Coakley homered, singled and batted in four runs as Cleveland State won its final regular-season baseball game Saturday, 10-7 over visiting Roane State.

Caleb Longley hit a two-run homer and singled, scoring three runs, and Jammer Strickland was 3-for-4 and scored three also for the Cougars (22-20, 9-17), who will face Motlow in the TCCAA/NJCAA Region VII tournament Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Chattanooga State.

Drew Korzybski was the winning pitcher with 4 2/3 innings of four-hit relief. Only two Roane runs were earned.

* Lee 15-13, Christian Brothers 3-2: At Memphis, Ben Holland had three homers among four hits and drove in five runs as the Flames romped to two Gulf South wins.

Siosi Poti also homered in the first game, and he and Chris Adams, who doubled twice, matched Holland’s three RBIs and two runs scored. Luke Toms had two hits, two RBIs and three runs and Josh Tate also had two hits and two RBIs in the opener for Lee (28-17-1, 16-13-1).

Nathan Wierzgac was 4-for-5 with an RBI in game two, when Andres Nelo was 3-for-4 with three RBIs, winning pitcher Trenton Hill was 3-for-4 with a homer and two RBIs, Adams was 3-for-5, Poti had two hits and three runs and Toms was 2-for-2 with two runs.

* Covenant 8, Averett 7: At Danville, Va., a six-run second inning propelled the Scots to the USA South victory in their season finale.

Will Cleland and Caleb Bloye each was 2-for-4 with two RBIs and K.C. Simons was 2-for-3 with two runs scored for the Scots (15-23, 11-16).