Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Lee 10, Lancaster Bible 0

After waiting an extra day to play its first game at the NCCAA World Series because of rain on Wednesday, the Lancaster Bible baseball team was shutout on Thursday morning in Mason, Ohio by NCAA Division II Lee University. The Flames, who lost to Toccoa Falls on Wednesday, responded by pounding 15 hits and defeated the Chargers, 10-0 in eight innings.

The Chargers (17-19) didn't record their first hit until freshman Justin Taylor doubled down the left field line in the seventh inning. By then, Lancaster Bible trailed, 7-0 as the Flames (34-18) scored twice in the first inning and added a run in the third. Lee blew the game wide open in the fifth when they scored four more times. Junior Nate Long had the only other hit for the Chargers as he doubled to right field in the eighth inning.

Lancaster Bible starter Caleb Mayer pitched fairly well through five innings as he scattered 10 hits and allowed six earned runs. Mayer did strike out four as he fell to 3-4 this season. Gabe Yoder pitched the final 2 1/3 innings as he gave up five hits and three earned runs, while striking out two.

Notes:
-Senior Matt Taliercio saw his 10-game hitting streak come to an end as he was 0-for-3 on Thursday morning. Taliercio is now hitting .492 this season, which still leads NCAA Division III.


Trevecca Nazarene 13, Lancaster Bible 1

Lancaster Bible, batting first as the road team for the second straight game, took a 1-0 lead on an RBI single by Nate Long in the top of the first inning. The Chargers' first three batters of the game reached via the base on balls, but leadoff hitter Justin Taylor was picked off of first base after his walk. Caleb Mayer and Matt Taliercio remained on second and first respectively and after Kody Godsey flied out, Long delivered a hit that scored Mayer and gave Lancaster Bible its first run of the World Series.

Travecca Nazarene scored once to tie the game at 1-1 in the bottom of the first and then tacked on 10 runs over the next two innings to take control of the contest. Chargers starter Micah McClay lasted just 2 1/3 innings before being he was chased from the mound and Wade Zweizig entered. Senior Nate Horn pitched the final 1 2/3 innings for the Chargers who fell to 17-20 this season and 0-2 at the NCCAA World Series.

Taylor had the other Lancaster Bible hit, while Taliercio reached base twice, once on a walk, the other on a hit-by-pitch. The win improves Trevecca Nazarene to 43-13 this season. 

Lancaster Bible will take on the Yellow Jackets of Cedarville University on Friday morning at 11 a.m. and then play its final game of the NCCAA World Series on Friday night at 8 p.m. against Toccoa Falls.