LEXINGTON, Va. – Second-seeded Washington and Lee eliminated Shenandoah University from the 2017 ODAC Baseball Tournament Sunday night with a 10-6 win at Lynchburg City Stadium.
Shenandoah (36-8) brought the tying run to the plate with no outs in the ninth only to see W&L reliever Danny Devereux escape by getting an infield fly and two strikeouts.
The bases loaded, no out situation in the ninth was the second consecutive frame in which Devereux worked out of a potential big inning.
In the eighth, SU loaded the bases with no outs and Devereux induced a 4-6-3 double play ball that let one run score. Following a walk, he got a strikeout to end the threat.
Shenandoah left nine men on base in the contest.
Devereux's heroics made a winner of Carson McKoon (2-2). McKoon worked the initial 6 1/3, allowing four runs on eight hits while striking out three.
Devereux entered in the seventh with an 8-3 lead and after allowing an inherited runner to score on a groundout, avoided additional damage by getting an inning-ending strikeout.
Washington and Lee scored three runs in the third, and after the Hornets answered with a two-run fifth, took total control with a five-spot in the sixth.
Sophomore Zach Teeple (3-2) allowed all eight of those runs, giving them up on nine hits in 5 1/3 innings. He struck out three and walked one.
Matt Burns, Steve Jones, Robert Klinchock and CJ Morton finished up for the Hornets.
Nick Goode was 3-for-5 and Tristan Baker, Jake Loew, Nate Loman and Dan Cameron all had two hits.
Baker drove in three, including two on a single up the middle in with two outs in the fifth. He also had an RBI groundout in the seventh.
The win puts Washington and Lee (28-12) into Monday's championship contest. The Generals will have two opportunities to win the title over Roanoke College.
Shenandoah, ranked third in the South Region, will now wait one week on a possible NCAA Tournament berth. The NCAA announces the playoff field on Sunday, May 14.
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