Tyler McClure pitched a three-hitter and Zach Zarzour went 3-for-5 with five RBIs and two runs scored as Chattanooga State opened its final regular-season series of the 2012 baseball season with a 13-1 win Friday against TCCAA visitor Southwest Tennessee.
The victory was the 700th in the junior college coaching career of Greg Dennis, with 352 now in nine seasons with the Tigers. He had 348 wins in a program he built from scratch at Collin County in Texas.
Jordan McDonald had two hits and three RBIs and Connor Gilbert, Mac Tobin and Tyler Garner also had two hits apiece Friday for Chattanooga State, which hosts the Saluqis in a doubleheader starting at noon today. The Tigers will host the state/region tournament starting May 6.
• Columbia State 9, Cleveland State 0: At Cleveland, Lucas Laster pitched a nine-inning one-hitter as the nationally fourth-ranked visitors won handily in the opener of their TCCAA series.
The Chargers’ Dustin Delgado went 4-for-6 with two RBIs, and Derrick Armstrong and Lucas Pippenger combined for four hits and five RBIs. The game was scoreless until the fifth inning, when Armstrong had a two-run single and Pippenger a two-run double.