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BARTLESVILLE, Okla. -- The second-seeded Bellevue University baseball team advanced to the championship game of the 2014 MCAC Tournament with a 10-4 victory over York College Saturday afternoon at Bill Doenges Memorial Park Stadium.
The win avenged a 4-2 opening round loss to the Panthers. York ended its season at 32-21.
Bellevue (37-14-2) will battle tournament host and top-seeded Oklahoma Wesleyan University at 3:30 p.m. today. If the Bruins win, a second championship game will be played on Sunday (May 4) at 1 p.m. The Eagles are currently riding a 24-game winning streak and are ranked No. 5 in the nation with a 51-6 overall record.
Devin Ferguson drove in four runs, going 2-for-5 with a double and a run scored. Nate Mullins finished 3-for-3 with a home run and two RBIs. Joe Mancuso continued his hot hitting, blasting three doubles, while going 4-for-5 with two RBIs and a run scored.
The Bruins raced out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first after York started the game with back-to-back fielding errors, leading to a run-scoring ground-out RBI by Charlie Krueger, while adding a second run on an RBI single by Ferguson.
Bellevue exploded for five runs on five hits in the third, highlighted by a three-run double by Ferguson, an RBI double by Mancuso, and a bases-loaded walk by Galli Cribbs, extending the BU lead to 7-0.
The Panthers got a run back in the bottom of the third, scoring on a bases-loaded fielder's choice RBI by Sean Goodall, slicing the lead to 7-1.
Another RBI double by Mancuso pushed the BU advantage to 8-1 in the top of the fourth inning.
A two-run triple by Tyler Helms helped York climb to within five runs at 8-3 in the bottom of the fifth frame.
Mullins belted his team leading 10th home run of the season in the top of the seventh, a two-run shot to center field, giving BU a 10-3 advantage.
York scored its final run in the bottom of the eighth on ground-out RBI by Joe Garcia, to make the final score, 10-4.
Steve Sarcone improved to 6-3 on the season with the complete-game victory. Sarcone scattered five hits with five strikeouts and four walks in nine innings of work.
Brad Lindsley was tagged with the loss, falling to 5-3 on the season, giving up seven runs on six hits with one strikeout in 2 1/3 innings on the mound.
