April 18, 2008

Final Stats

PETERSBURG, VA- The Virginia State Trojans and Saint Augustine's Falcons will play for the 2008 CIAA Baseball Championship tomorrow at Whaley Colbert Field on the campus of Virginia State University.

The Trojans earned their berth the Finals with a 10-8 victory over Elizabeth City State in the winner's bracket Friday. Virginia State trailed the entire contest before scoring three runs in the bottom of the 8th inning. Michael Knight came up big for the Trojans by going 3-4 including 2 home runs, 5 RBI and 2 runs scored.

For the second day, the Saint Augustine's Falcons used 11 innings to defeat their opponent, this time the Elizabeth City State Vikings, 7-6. With the game knotted at 6 in the bottom of the 11th Joseph Pierce's two-out RBI single scored Josh Bishop to propel the Falcons to a tournament rematch with VSU.

CIAA Baseball Day Two
April 18, 2008
Game Four- Virginia State 10 Elizabeth City State 8
Game Five- Saint Augustine's 7 Elizabeth City State 6 (11 innings)

April 19, 2008
Baseball Finals
Saint Augustine's vs. Virginia State- 1:00pm
Tiebreaker (If Necessary)- 4:00pm