BOX SCORE
Reading, Pa. (May 17, 2008) – Delaware Valley College sophomore
Sean Tappan (Milton, Del./Cape Henlopen) picked a good time for his first complete game shutout of the season carrying the third-seeded Aggies (25-17) into the Eastern College Athletic Conference Southern Region Baseball Championship Final with a 5-0 win over #2 Wesley College (27-15) Saturday morning at Alvernia College.
Tappan pitched out of trouble a few times to keep the Wolverines off the board giving up six hits and walking two while striking out five. He allowed base hits in each of the first five innings before settling into a grove setting down nine in a row until Wesley freshman
James Overstreet (Dover, Del./Lake Forest) reached on an error.
Tappan walked the leadoff hitter in the ninth, but threw his second double play ball of the day to erase the threat. He picked off a runner in the first and got a double play in the second. Wesley junior
Stu Madden (Langhorne, Pa./Neshaminy) singled to open the fourth and made it to third base with two out, but Tappan ended the inning with a fly ball to right to strand Madden.
DVC broke through against Wesley starter
Ryan Buckland (Middletown, Del./Caravel Academy) with two runs in the fifth inning when Buckland's control finally came around to bite him. The senior righty walked five batters and hit a sixth through the first four innings, but kept the Aggies off the board.
In the fifth freshman
Zach Chodur (Nesquehoning, Pa./Tamaqua) led off with a single and
Kevin Weingart (Belle Mead, N.J./Montgomery) followed with a walk. The Aggies bunted with their leading hitter
Zach Jakubowski (Audubon, N.J./Audubon) and Buckland went 3-0 on sophomore
Mike Isgro (Galloway, N.J./Absegami). Isgro got the green light and turned Buckland's 3-0 offering into a two-run triple to open the scoring.
DVC scored on a single, a sac bunt, and two wild pitches in the sixth for a 3-0 lead and went up 5-0 scoring twice in the eight, the first on
Brent Terlecky's (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn) first home run of the season.
With the win Delaware Valley advanced to the ECAC Championship Final and the 2004 South Region Champions were set to face another champion in host Alvernia College a 7-6 winner over Washington & Jefferson.
#3 Delaware Valley 5, #2 Wesley 0
