Saturday, May 19, 2012

SWAC baseball tourney: Prairie View outlasts TSU, earns spot in title game

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — Prairie View A&M didn’t have a spectacular day at the plate against Texas Southern, being out-hit for the second straight day.
Except this time, the Panthers made those few hits count.

Prairie View produced three of their seven hits in a five-run third inning and capitalized on TSU’s three errors en route to winning 8-5 in Saturday’s Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament semifinal at Lee-Hines Field and advancing to the league championship game for the first time since 2008.

The Panthers (27-23) will meet Mississippi Valley State (17-38) in the title game at 1 p.m. Sunday, looking to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2007.

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