San Jacinto College edged past Navarro College Tuesday night 7-6 in game seven of the NJCAA Region XIV Baseball Tournament at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ. Originally underway on Monday evening, the game was delayed until Tuesday night due to rain.
Weather issues plagued the game Tuesday as well, as strong intermittent lightning forced officials to call two more delays.
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Due to soggy field conditions, the Region†XIV Baseball Tournament has been pushed back until 5 p.m. on Tuesday. Game 7 (San Jacinto vs. Navarro) will be played at 5 p.m. and game 8 (Blinn vs. Galveston) will be played at 8 p.m.
Games 9-12 will be played on Wednesday and 13 and 14 on Thursday. The championship game will be played on Friday if necessary.
An updated tournament bracket is available at ntcceagles.com/tourney.
Games 7 and 8 of the Region XIV Baseball Tournament have been postponed until Tuesday morning due to rain. Game 7 (San Jacinto vs. Navarro) is tentatively scheduled to resume play at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. Check back at ntcceagles.com/tourney for further updates about the adjusted schedule.
The ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Eagles baseball season came to an end Monday afternoon as the team lost 9-1 to Texarkana College in game six of the NJCAA Region XIV Tournament. The game ended after eight innings due to the NJCAA run rule.
?This is a tough loss for us. We?ve gone back and forth with Texarkana throughout the season. Today, they just had our number,?
Day two of the NJCAA Region XIV Baseball Tournament started off with another close game on Monday as Alvin Community College beat Paris Junior College 8-7 in extra innings.
The loss eliminated Paris from the tournament and sent Alvin on to see day three. The Dolphins will face the loser of game eight ? which will either be Galveston or Blinn.
Alvin got on the board early, scoring one in the bottom of the first.
The NJCAA Region XIV Baseball Tournament continued with its pattern of long, extra-inning ballgames on Wednesday night as San Jacinto College beat Galveston College 6-5 in 16 innings.
San Jacinto remains the only undefeated team in the tournament. Galveston will play Navarro at 1 p.m. on Thursday (game 13) in order to try to earn the chance for a re-match with San Jacinto at 5 p.
San Jacinto started off strong, putting three runs on the board in the bottom of the first.
The ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Eagles fell 7-6 to the Galveston College Whitecaps Sunday night in game four of the Region XIV Tournament.
The game was late getting started and continued on into Monday morning after game three went 13 innings. Despite being the higher seed, ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ was unable to combat Galveston?s strong hitting.
?We didn?t get big hits when we needed to and Galveston did.
Baseball fans got their money?s worth in game three of the NJCAA Region XIV Baseball Tournament as San Jacinto College narrowly beat Paris Junior College 5-4 after 13 innings of play.
San Jacinto and Paris traded runs in the first inning, putting the score at 1-1. No runs were scored through the second to the top of the fourth.
The Blinn Buccaneers earned a place in the winner?s bracket Sunday afternoon as they came from behind to beat Texarkana College 11-6 in game two of the NJCAA Region XIV Baseball Tournament at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ in Mount Pleasant.
Texarkana jumped out to an early 3-0 lead in the top of the second. Texarkana added another two in the third and one more in the top of the fourth.
