WINCHESTER, Va. – No. 20/25 Shenandoah University continues ODAC Baseball Tournament play Friday with a 2 p.m. game versus archrival Bridgewater College.
 
The Hornets (31-10-1) and Eagles (26-15) meet at Truist Point Park in High Point, North Carolina in the second game of the four-team double-elimination championship.
 
Lynchburg and Roanoke play in the first game of the day with an 11 a.m. scheduled first pitch for that contest.
 
Three games are on tap for Saturday with the championship and if-necessary game slated for Sunday.
 
Shenandoah comes into the game winners of four straight and eight of its last 10. The Hornets advanced to the "final four" with a sweep of Hampden-Sydney in this past weekend's opening round best-of-three series.
 
SU defeated the Tigers, 6-2, Sunday and 4-1 on Monday to eliminate H-SC from the tournament for the fourth straight year.
 
Bridgewater also advanced via two-game sweep. The Eagles, originally the tournament's No. 5 seed, ousted fourth-seeded Washington & Lee with 8-1 and 9-8 victories over the Generals Sunday afternoon in Lexington.
 
For the championship tournament, BC becomes the third-seed as previous No. 3 Randolph-Macon, along with original No. 4 W&L, were both upset in the best-of-three round.
 
Shenandoah enters championship weekend as the league's top remaining hitting team with a .316 average. The Hornets are six points better than the other set of ODAC Hornets, the University of Lynchburg. Roanoke is third among the final four squads at .309 with Bridgewater hitting .296.
 
SU and Roanoke have each hit 39 home runs with Lynchburg posting 36 and Bridgewater 22.
 
On the mound, Lynchburg's 3.82 ERA is tops among the remaining teams with SU second at 4.77 and Roanoke third at 4.98. Bridgewater is giving up 5.06 earned runs per game.
 
Lynchburg hurlers have 381 strikeouts, SU 327, Bridgewater 306, and Roanoke 298.
 
Shenandoah has won 29 of 47 meetings between the Hornets and Eagles since 1998 after winning 5-1 at BC and 13-4 at SU this season. In ODAC Tournament play, the two programs met in the 2014, 2015, and 2016 tournaments with SU winning three of five games. Bridgewater's two wins came on Championship Sunday of the 2014 tourney.
 
All games from High Point feature live stream and live statistics.
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