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Lewiston, ID-The Belhaven baseball team saw their season come to a close on Monday afternoon at the 2010 Avista NAIA World Series losing to Embry-Riddle University 8-4 in an elimination game at Harris Field. The Blazers jumped out to a 2-0 lead after one inning, but the Eagles put together a four run third which helped propel them to the victory. Belhaven also struggled on defense with four errors which resulted in six of the eight Embry-Riddle runs being unearned.

Belhaven (44-17) got off to a good start by notching two runs in the first inning against Eagle starting pitcher Johnathan Kountis. Drew Dillard led the inning off with a single and was chased home on an RBI triple off the bat of Jimmy Gilford. Lake Eiland then stepped to the plate and brought in Gilford on a groundout to third base to make it 2-0 Blazers.

Riley Galloway cruised through the first two innings, but ran into some trouble in the top of the third. Galloway walked the leadoff man Keaton Stroud and then gave up a bunt single to Mike Jutkiewicz, putting runners on first and second. The first defensive miscue of the inning occurred on the Jutkiewicz single when no one covered the first base bag. The ensuing batter, Tyler Robbins, laid down a sacrifice bunt and reached on Craig Dean's throwing error, which also allowed Stroud to score the first run for the Eagles. Galloway then got Jeff Lemon on a fly out to right and struck out Steve Sabins for the second out. However, Branden Roper-Hubbert delivered a two out two run single to center followed by a double off the bat of Austin Goolsby to give Embry-Riddle a 4-2 edge.

Belhaven responded with two runs in the bottom of the third to even things up at 4-4. With one out, Lake Eiland and Timmy Foster hit back to back singles and then a throwing error by Sabins on a ground ball from Craig Dean loaded up the bases. Kountis was victimized on a passed ball by the catcher, Goolsby, opening the door for Eiland to cross the plate to make it 4-3. With two outs in the frame, Brandon Benton legged out an infield single driving in Foster for the game tying run. Corey Bevis came in to get the final out and get the Eagles out of the inning.

Bevis went on to quiet the Blazer bats for the rest of the afternoon as he allowed just two more hits over the final six innings. Embry-Riddle (46-18) regained the lead in the top of the fifth with two runs, as Sabins tripled to lead it off and then scored on an RBI groundout by Roper-Hubbert. Aaron Glaum then connected on his second home run of the season off Golden Grasse to make it 6-4. The Eagles then tacked on a couple more unearned runs in the ninth off Wade Broyles when Shawn Diehl misplayed a ground ball from Roper-Hubbert with two outs. Embry-Riddle eventually loaded the bases and Broyles hit Matt Tomaszewski to plate the first run of the inning and then courtesy runner Saul Meza stole home for the second run, extending the lead to 8-4. Belhaven went quietly at the plate in the bottom of the ninth as the Eagles went on for the victory.

Galloway (2-6) suffered the loss as he went the first four plus innings allowing five runs (one earned) on six hits with a walk and five strikeouts. Grasse was charged with one earned run in 2.2 innings and Broyles gave up two unearned runs while striking out two in the ninth. Andy Kuehn tossed 1.1 innings and did not surrender a run on one hit with one strikeout. Dillard, Gilford, Eiland, Foster, Dean, Benton, Feazell, and Derek Tortorich each had one hit while Gilford, Eiland, and Benton had the only runs batted in for the Blazers.

Bevis (7-2) was credited with the win for Embry-Riddle, pitching 6.1 innings in relief giving up just two hits while walking one and striking out five. Roper-Hubbert had a hit and three runs batted in to lead the Eagles at the plate followed by Goolsby who had a pair of hits and an RBI. Sabins finished the game with two hits and a run scored for Embry-Riddle who moves on in the loser's bracket to face the loser of the Lee and Lewis-Clark State game at 11:00 AM (PDT) Tuesday.

Belhaven ends the season after having made their first ever trip to the NAIA World Series and set a new school record for most wins in a season with 44.