MASON, Ohio – The top-seeded Trevecca Nazarene University baseball team (34-18) advanced at the 2015 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Baseball Championships with a 3-0 win over third-seeded Kentucky Wesleyan College (32-18) on Thursday at Legacy Field.

KWC is one of two teams to defeat Trevecca in the regular season this year. In fact, the Panthers, and today's starting pitcher Matt Pobereyko, defeated Trevecca 1-0 in the first G-MAC game of the year. Trevecca won the next 19 conference games before losing two of four games in the final conference series at Alderson Broaddus University.

Trevecca will play fifth-seeded Ohio Valley University on Friday at 11 a.m. The Fighting Scots are 15-28 on the year after knocking off Cedarville University 5-1 on Thursday.
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Michael Purcell (SR/New Johnsonville, Tenn.), the G-MAC Pitcher of the Year, went the distance with a complete game shutout. Purcell, now 7-1 on the year, allowed six hits and three walks while striking out six Panthers.

The game was a scoreless tie until Trevecca scored two runs in the bottom of the sixth.

Bryson Shelton (SO/Powell, Tenn. ) led off the inning with a double to right center on a full count. It was a 10-pitch at bat with Shelton fouling off five pitches in a row before connecting on the double. Ethan Hurt (SO/Pegram, Tenn.) reached on a bunt and advanced to second on a throwing error. Shelton scored on the error. Zach Tompkins (JR/Mt. Juliet, Tenn.) moved Hurt to third with a single. Micah Blount (JR/Birmingham, Ala.) reached on a  fielders choice that also scored Hurt from third.

Trevecca added one more run in the bottom of the eighth.

Zach Tompkins scored on a Clayton Nichols (SR/Franklin, Tenn.) SAC fly to right field. Tompkins reached on a single to lead off the inning. Blount singled to move Tompkins over. Chad Sutton (FR/Independence, Mo.) moved both runners up with a SAC bunt before Nichols drove in Tompkins for the final run of the game.

Both teams left 10 runners on base. Trevecca had 10 hits and three errors. The Panthers had one error and six hits.

Shelton was 2-for-3 with a double, walk, and run scored. Tompkins was 3-for-4 with a run scored.