Cleveland State pulled out a 10-7 TCCAA baseball win Friday at Motlow State with eight runs in the top of the ninth inning.
Grant Zawadzki led off the ninth with a walk and later had the go-ahead single, making him 3-for-5 with two RBIs and two runs scored. Gray Hutchinson was 2-for-3 with an RBI and Trevor Burgess also had two hits, including a double in the ninth, when Brandon Rader had an RBI single and later Jaime Harper had a tying pinch-hit single after Cameron Brewster’s two-run pinch hit.
Landon Snyder was the winning pitcher in relief for Cleveland State (15-10, 5-2), and Matt Lynam got his first save of the year.
The teams play a doubleheader at Motlow today, as does Columbia State at Chattanooga State. Nationally fourth-ranked Chattanooga State won 7-5 in their Friday game.
• Lee 3, Truett-McConnell 1: At Cleveland, Ga., Shay Crawford (4-1) and three relievers held the Bears to six hits and no earned runs as the NAIA’s second-ranked Flames rose to 22-6 overall and 4-0 in the Southern States Athletic Conference. Kris Hall got the save. Cleanup man Travis Anderson batted in two of Lee’s runs, leadoff batter Seth Walker scored two and No. 3 hitter Michael Brown raised his team-best batting average to .416 by going 2-for-2 with a run.