MASON, Ohio – Top-seeded Trevecca Nazarene University (36-18) won the 2015 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Baseball Championship, 19-2, today over fifth-seeded Ohio Valley University (16-30) at Prasco Park on Saturday.

It is the third consecutive G-MAC title for the Trojans who have won 10 consecutive tournament games. They are 10-1 all-time in the postseason tournament after losing their very first tournament game in 2013.

The Trojans, the three-time regular season G-MAC champions, will await word whether they will receive their first NCAA Division II region bid on Sunday night.

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Six teams advance to the region round. Those six teams will come from the GLIAC (Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference), G-MAC, and GLVC (Great Lakes Valley Conference). The GLIAC and GLVC each have an automatic qualifier. The final four will be selected out of the region rankings. TNU was ranked seventh in the Midwest Region last week. The G-MAC will have an automatic qualifier beginning next season.

Zach Tompkins (JR/Mt. Juliet, Tenn.) homered and drove in three runs while John Bolton (SO/Nolensville, Tenn.) improved to 5-2 on the year with five strong innings.
 
The top-seeded Trojans completed an undefeated league postseason run for the second straight year. They were 3-0 last year and 4-0 this season at the G-MAC tournament.
 
TNU scored their 19 runs on 15 hits as six different starters recorded two hits or better. The Trojans nearly batted around the lineup twice in the top of the first inning as they scored 11 runs.

 
Ohio Valley played the spoiler for several teams in the postseason bracket and finished the season with a 16-30 overall record as the G-MAC runner-up.
 
G-MAC Player of the Year Hunter Newman (JR/Chapmansboro, Tenn.), Bryson Shelton (SO/Powell, Tenn. ), Clayton Nichols (SR/Franklin, Tenn.) and Tompkins each had three RBI, respectively.
 
Tyler Tichenor (JR/Centertown, Ky) doubled to get the game started and singled in two runs in the first inning alone. The Trevecca offense chased OVU lefty starter Dakota Taylor (1-5) out after he was able to record one out.
 
TNU was also able to draw three bases-loaded walks in the first inning while Shelton and Nichols drove in runs in their first plate appearances.
 
The Fighting Scots answered in their first series of at-bats, scoring a pair of runs on a Tyler Proctor RBI double and a grounder through the left side of the infield by Logan Dan.
 
Proctor would finish 2-for-3 with a run and RBI at the dish for OVU, completing an impressive conference tournament showing by the Fighting Scots' third baseman.
 
The Trojans tacked on three more runs in the fifth as Micah Blount (JR/Birmingham, Ala.) singled home a run and Nichols drove in two with another single. Newman doubled and recorded a pair of RBI by drawing bases-loaded walks.
 
Bolton fanned six batters while yielding two runs on six hits and finished off his fifth winning decision with four consecutive scoreless innings. Righties Mason Dunn (JR/Goodlettsville, Tenn.) and Ryan Arington (SO/Cincinnati, Ohio) cleaned up with scoreless sixth and seventh frames in relief.

NOTES:

Trevecca is 9-1 now versus Ohio Valley, including six in a row
Trevecca is 10-1 all-time in G-MAC Tournament play
Trevecca is on a ten-game win streak in G-MAC Tournament play
Trevecca is 27-7 over its last 34 games
Ryan Schmalz is now 113-54
Trevecca is 50-12 all-time in G-MAC Regular Season play
Tichenor hit his 16th double
Tompkins hit his second home run of the year
Newman hit his 21st double
Chad Sutton (FR/Independence, Mo.) hit his 16th double
Sutton was hit-by-pitch for the 6th time, now has .416 on base %