Tennessee Wesleyan College moved up two spots this week to 10th in the NAIA baseball poll, and the Bulldogs’ Ryan Hartman was the AAC pitcher of the week for his seven-inning, three-hit shutout of Reinhardt. The senior had no walks and five strikeouts in that game and is 3-0 for the season with an earned run average of 0.48 and 49 strikeouts in 37 2/3 innings.
* Bryan College rose from 23rd to 20th in the NAIA baseball poll and beat Cumberland University 5-3 on Tuesday. Preston King homered, doubled and batted in two runs for the Lions (22-7), while Crandon Wallace was 2-for-4 with an RBI and Andrew Urbistondo was 2-for-4 and scored a run. Hunter Tipton (3-0) and three relievers held the Phoenix (17-15) to two earned runs.
* Lee University’s Ben Holland was the Gulf South Conference baseball player of the week after going 8-for-16 with two home runs, four doubles and six RBIs in four games March 14-20. His second homer against Shorter was a 10th-inning game-winner. Going into Tuesday night’s game against Trevecca Nazarene, the senior was batting .458 with 13 homers, the most in NCAA Division II, 15 doubles and 37 RBIs. Lee (16-12) nipped Trevecca 8-7 on Luke Toms’ hit after Holland reached on a tying error in the 14th inning, Those two, Trenton Hill and Chris Adams each had two hits for the Flames.
* Led by two home runs and five RBIs by Alex Kerr and a grand slam among three hits for Luke Harvey, the Covenant College baseball team beat visiting Oakland City 12-7 on Tuesday. Caleb Bloye also homered as the Scots (12-13) tied a school record with four in one game. Kerr scored three runs and Bloye and Julien Amorelli each scored two, and Perry Rigby and Taylor Bloye each was 2-for-3.
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