Tennessee Temple senior pitcher Hunter Giles from South Pittsburg was announced Tuesday as a second-team USCAA baseball All-American, on the eve of the beginning of the national tournament in Hampton, Va. Crusaders teammates Micah Wyatt and Caden Shadrick received honorable mention. Third-seeded Temple plays today against the College of St. Joseph in Vermont.
* Top-seeded Tennessee Wesleyan opened the NAIA baseball opening series at Kingsport, Tenn., on Tuesday with a 3-2 night win over LSU Alexandria, which earlier beat Judson (Ill.) 9-4. Second-seeded Lindsey Wilson edged Freed-Hardeman 5-4 and faces Wesleyan (44-10) at 2:30 p.m. today. Shell McCain was 1-for-2 with a leadoff home run, two walks and two runs scored for TWC, and Wardy Polanco hit a two-run homer in the eighth to reward Jarrod Jameson with the pitching win for allowing only five hits in eight innings. Logan Longwith got the save.
* Second-seeded host Embry-Riddle beat third-seeded Bryan College 3-0 as the Daytona Beach Bracket of the NAIA baseball opening round got under way Tuesday. Joey Underwood was 2-for-3 but Langston Calhoun had the only other hit off Stetson Nelson for Bryan (42-17), which faces fourth seed Southeastern (Fla.), a 10-4 loser to Rio Grande, at 10 this morning. Lions ace Kenny Knudsen allowed seven hits and two earned runs against Embry-Riddle (37-17).
* Logan Campbell and Ryan Zimmer combined to pitch a three-hitter and Andres Nelo and Zack Zyburt drove in three runs apiece as top-seeded host Lee University beat Ohio Christian 13-0 to cap the first day of the NCCAA Mid-East Region baseball tournament Tuesday. Ohio Christian earlier edged Johnson 10-9 between Morthland’s 14-4 win over Hiwassee and 12-0 loss to second-seeded Bluefield. Nelo and M.J. Brown each was 3-for-4, Chris Adams was 3-for-5 with two RBIs and Zyburt homered along with Luke Toms for the Flames (32-18-1), who play Bluefield at 4 p.m. today. Hiwassee faces Ohio Christian at 1:30.
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