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Three run first just enough for Scrappers May 12, 2008 - No reporter cited

Jim Pinson
Editor

JONESBORO – Early runs for the Scrappers proved to be the difference in the quarterfinals of the state baseball tournament in Jonesboro. Nashville played Union Christian, the number one seed from the North regional, on the campus at Arkansas State University.

Nashville scored three runs in the first, to capture the 4-2 win and advance to face the Rivercrest Colts in the semi-finals Monday afternoon at Valley View High School.

Michael Nava pitched seven complete innings for the win. He allowed four hits, struck out 12 and walked four.

Union Christian’s Casey Mikula matched Nava, with five hits, 13 strike outs and four walks.

Michael Milum opened the game with a lead off single to left field. Tyler Serrano drew the first walk of the game, but the Eagles pitcher settled down and struck out the next two batters he faced. Bubba Browning calmly drove in Milum for a RBI on a single, and Serrano scored on a throwing error by Union Christian to take a 2-0 lead early in the ballgame.

Cade Richards would drive Browning in, and stretched his single into a double by taking second on the throw.

Union Christian bounced back in their half of the first with two runs of their own.

Following a walk, Kyle Mathis hit a single to score the Eagles first run of the game. Mathis advanced to second on the throw and moved over to third on a wild pitch. Mathis would later score on a wild pitch, to make the score 3-2 after one inning of play.

Nava would hit a double in the third, but be stranded at second by Union Christian. 

Mathis would walk in the third, but Scrapper catcher Lane Chism threw him out as he attempted to take second.

Milum would lead off the fifth with a walk and score on a single by Luke Jamison. Jamison drove the ball back through the box to center field. Union Christian would end the inning by throwing out Jamison when he attempted to steal second.

Josh Sherrouse would lead off the Eagles half of the fifth inning with a single, but Nava would pick him off at first with a good move. Dustin Flaspohler would get a single but no damage would be done for the remainder of the inning.

Nava had a double to lead the Scrappers while Milum, Jamison, Browning and Richards each hit singles for Nashville.

Flaspohler, Sherrouse, Dawson, Urrutia and Mathis had singles for the Eagles.

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