Savannah State lands first NCAA baseball tournament bid

NORFOLK, Virginia  --  Senior Peter Poole's sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 10th inning scored fellow senior Campbell to lift Savannah State to a 1-0 victory Sunday against Bethune-Cookman in the finale of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament in Norfolk, Va.

The win gives the Tigers (33-21) the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. It will be the school's first appearance in the Division I field. The 64-team bracket will be announced May 27.

Kyle McGowin (12-1), the MEAC pitcher of the year, went the distance for Savannah State, allowing seven hits while striking out 11 and walking only two. McGowin's lone loss came May 5 in his previous outing against Bethune-Cookman.

Campbell sparked the winning rally in the 10th with a one-out double. Todd Hagen singled up the middle but Campbell advanced only to third. Poole then smacked the first pitch he saw from Jordan Dailey (5-1) in the air down the right-field line to bring home Campbell.

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