MASON, Ohio – The top-seeded Trevecca Nazarene University baseball team (39-11) defeated fifth-seeded Cedarville University (25-24) 14-4 in their opening game at the 2014 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Championships on Wednesday. The Trojans have won eight of their last nine games.

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The tournament is being played a Prasco Park just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio in Mason, Ohio.

Cedarville advanced to the game with Trevecca after defeating Davis & Elkins College (23-24) 11-0 in the day's first game.

Trevecca, after earning a first round bye with the top seed and regular season title, took the field to play Yellow Jackets. CU came out and took a 4-0 lead with a three-run second and another run in the third.

 
Cedarville's Drew Johnson, the G-MAC Freshman of the Year, doubled and later scored on a two-run single by first baseman Zach Huskey. In the third, Johnson's sacrifice fly drove in the final Yellow Jacket run.  

 
Trevecca's bats came alive in the fourth inning as they plated seven runs on six hits. Hunter Newman led off the inning with a solo home run to left field. Ethan Hurt and Nick Howell each had two-run singles in the inning. Ryan Arington and Tyler Tichenor also added RBIs in the inning.
 
Trevecca added two in the fifth, two in the sixth, and three more in the seventh, forcing the ten-run rule to be used.

In the fifth, Luke Fennell homered to start the inning and Arington added his second sacrifice fly, driving in Jeffrey Scarritt.

In the sixth, Nick Howell hit a solo shot to lead off the inning, making it three straight innings that the Trojans led off an inning with a home run. Later in the inning Newman scored on an RBI-single off the bat of Ethan Hurt.
 
In the seventh, Trevecca ended the game as Howell and Newman each doubled, with Newman driving in two runs on his shot down the line. The game officially ended on a Bryson Shelton bases-loaded single.
 
Senior Alex Shoulders (9-2) survived the 4-0 Cedarville start and allowed just two hits after the third inning. He pitched all seven innings, allowing four runs on seven hits. He walked four and struck out four, earning hit ninth win of the season.

Trevecca had 15 hits and an error while Cedarville had seven hits and two errors.

Howell had a 3-for-5 day at the plate with two runs scored, three RBI, a home run, and a double. Newman was 2-for-4 with three runs scored, three RBI, a home run, and a double. Hurt was 2-for-4 with a run scored, and three RBI. Fennell, Scarritt, Shelton, and Arington all had two-hit games.

 
Trevecca advances to Thursday's 6 p.m. winners bracket finals against third-seeded Alderson Broaddus, with the winner advancing to Saturday's Championship Finals out of the winners bracket.