#2W - Trinity				#3W - Southwestern
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2004 SCAC Baseball Championship Game 11 - Sunday, April 25 - 2 p.m.

Box Score

ATLANTA, Ga. - Trinity University captured the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference baseball championship Sunday with a 7-6 victory over Southwestern University at the 2004 SCAC Spring Sports Festival at Oglethorpe University.

Trinity (35-8) will receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament. The regional tournaments will be held May 20-23 at sites to be determined. The NCAA Baseball Championship will take place May 28-June 1 at Appleton, Wisc.

The Tigers have won the SCAC baseball crown on two other occasions -in 1995 and 1999. Trinity last played in the NCAA Tournament in 2002 and finished as runner-up in the West Regional to Concordia (Texas).

Southwestern appeared to be in control of Sunday's title game when Matt Odom's three-run home run in the top of the sixth gave the Pirates a 5-1 lead.

After a solo home run by Trinity's J.B. Swoyrda in the seventh to cut the Southwestern lead to 5-2, the Tigers exploded for five runs in the bottom of the eighth.

A two-run home run by senior shortstop Jason Armstrong brought Trinity to within a run at 5-4 and first-year infielder Nicholas Vera gave the Tigers their first lead of the day with a bases-loaded, two-out, three-run double.

Southwestern plated one run in the ninth to cut the margin to 7-6, but Luke Crum popped out to second with runners on first and second to end the game.

Armstrong, who had three hits, three RBI and a run scored in Sunday's title game, extended his hitting streak to 38 games - the fifth-longest streak in Division III history. He also became Trinity's all-time single-season leader in hits with 83.

Odom and Will Paton each had two hits for the Pirates, who end their season at 27-18.

Adam Frey picked up the win in relief, pitching 2.2 innings while allowing one unearned run and striking out two and walking two. Andy Morrison, in relief of Cameron McColl, took the loss for Southwestern.