{"id":1530,"date":"2019-05-27T01:17:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T01:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2019-05-27T01:17:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T01:17:05","slug":"emory-texas-lutheran-to-square-off-for-ncaa-division-iii-title-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1530","title":{"rendered":"Emory, Texas Lutheran to square off for NCAA Division III title"},"content":{"rendered":"

TYLER, Texas \u2014 Greta Wilker\u2019s two-out double in the bottom of the eighth inning propelled No. 3 seed Emory University past Eastern Connecticut State, 3-2, and into Monday\u2019s best-of-three NCAA Division III championship series at Suddenlink Field.<\/p>\n

The (39-12) Eagles will face No. 4 seed Texas Lutheran, who defeated Trine, 6-3, earlier Sunday to punch their own ticket to the finals.<\/p>\n

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Sarah Katz opened the final inning for Emory with a base hit, and promptly traded places with Cassie Baca on a fielder\u2019s choice. Sami Feller then traded places on the bases with Baca before Wilker delivered the game-winner.<\/p>\n

No. 8 seed Eastern (36-13) opened the scoring in the top of the first, when NFCA All-American Morgan Bolduk doubled and scored on Julia SanGiovanni\u2019s single to right. The Warriors added an insurance run in the fifth on Megan Hodgdon\u2019s homer to left.<\/p>\n

But Emory got going late, first scoring twice in the seventh on a Krista Colussi double to extend the game, then winning it with Wilker\u2019s double in the first additional frame.<\/p>\n

Toko Miller limited the Warriors to just five hits in a complete-game effort, while Bolduk scattered eight hits over 7.2 innings in the season-ending loss for Eastern, who beat both top seed St. Thomas and No. 2 seed Illinois Wesleyan at the tournament.<\/p>\n

Texas Lutheran 6, Trine 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

NFCA All-American Kelly Jurden, Casey Martin and Rebecca Snow had two hits apiece, and the Bulldogs scored two unearned runs in the fifth to remain unbeaten in three games in Tyler.<\/p>\n

In the fifth, Martin reached on an error and scored on Snow\u2019s double. Skylar Ouellette followed with a double of her own, and scored, after Cates flied out, when Madisyn Cates reached on an error.<\/p>\n

Texas Lutheran (38-8) added two more runs in the sixth. Haley Padilla opened the inning with a pinch-hit walk and was replaced by Deanna Hernandez. Cassie Roche sacrificed her to second, and Jurden singled her to third.<\/p>\n

After New Balance\/NFCA Golden Shoe winner Jurden stole second and Martin grounded out, Snow singled up the middle to score both runners.  <\/p>\n

Michaela Hartline, who had two homers Saturday, hit a two-run blast Sunday in the fourth that reclaimed the lead for Trine (37-8). The Thunder had jumped out to a 1-0 edge in the first on Lexi Clark\u2019s single that scored Lainey McCue, who had led off with a walk, moved to second on a fielder\u2019s choice and advanced to third on an error.<\/p>\n

Texas Lutheran jumped ahead, briefly, with two runs in the third. Martin singled home Roche, who had walked, stole second and advanced to third on Jurden\u2019s single to left.<\/p>\n

After Jurden was thrown out at the plate trying to score, Cates doubled in Martin with the second run.<\/p>\n

Kayla Oliveira and Chassety Raines combined to strike out 10 and limit the powerful Thunder to five hits in the victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER, Texas \u2014 Greta Wilker\u2019s two-out double in the bottom of the eighth inning propelled No. 3 seed Emory University past Eastern Connecticut State, 3-2, and into Monday\u2019s best-of-three NCAA Division III championship series at Suddenlink Field. The (39-12) Eagles will face No. 4 seed Texas Lutheran, who defeated Trine, 6-3, earlier Sunday to punch…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}