Longest AMC Tournament game sees Eutectics' season end

BRANSON, MO – If you are going to go down, what a way to do it. The Eutectics showed as much grit, tenacity and conviction as they have all season as they matched up against the best in the conference facing an elimination, season-ending fate with a loss. Against the co-Pitcher of the Year in the AMC, UHSP left it all on the field, got beyond outstanding pitching themselves against arguably the top offense in the conference and battled to a scoreless draw through 12 innings. But if you give a team like 1-Williams Baptist enough chances, it is seemingly only a matter of time before they will break through. The Eagles did like that with a two-run homerun from the AMC's Freshman of the Year in Addison Foster in the top of the 13^th inning pushing WBU past 6-UHSP for a 2-0 win.

GAME HIGHLIGHTS:

1-WILLIAMS BAPTIST 2, UHSP 0 (13 INNINGS)

• Talianna Joyner started for the Eutectics in the circle. She entered the game with the highest ERA of any of the UHSP pitchers and the highest opponent's batting average of anyone on the staff, but for four innings was absolutely brilliant. Joyner allowed just three hits and walked one against an offense that had scored the most runs of any club in the league.
• Karlea Frey came on to start the fifth as the top reliever for the Eutectics was just as good as Joyner. She took the ball for the next three innings and scattered three hits, walking one, but striking out four. Frey got a massive called strikeout of Foster in the fifth with two-on and two-out to end that threat.
• WBU starter Emberlin Caldwell was just as solid in the circle the entire game. Through seven innings, UHSP only had multiple runners on once when they had two on and one out in the third. She got Hunter Noto to pop out and Hallie Roper to line out to short to end the threat.
• Anna Lucas started the eighth for UHSP after having thrown 99 pitches the day before against Columbia in a 6-2 loss. Through her first five frames in this game, she followed the same path that Joyner and Frey used as the Eagles only mustered three total base-runners in that span.
• UHSP missed opportunities in the ninth and the 11^th when they had their leadoff hitter Alicia Kimble leading off the inning in a potential walk-off situation as the Eutectics were the home team. Hallie Roper walked in both those innings to provide a two-out baserunner, but they could never push across a run.
• Madisyn Busselle doubled to lead-off the 13^th and Foster followed with her 14^th homerun of the season, a no-doubter to leftfield. Foster tied the single-season record in Williams Baptist history with that homerun, a mark set by Shelby Anderson in 2013. Her now 52 RBI's continue to lead the AMC and have her tied for 27^th in the nation in runs batted in.
• Caldwell improved to 22-4 on the year throwing all 13 innings allowing just five hits. She struck out six and threw 181 pitches.
• Lucas suffered a hard-luck loss (5-8) going 5.2 innings allowing the two runs over six hits. She struck out one.
• Williams Baptist out-hit UHSP 11-5.
• Kimble had two of the Eutectics five hits and had eight hits over the three games in the tournament. She finishes with 65 hits on the season, a new Eutectic single-season record and tied for 59^th-most in the country.
• The game lasted 2-hours, 58-minutes and was the longest game in AMC Tournament history. Williams Baptist has now been involved in the three longest games in the AMC Tournament.

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The Eutectics finish the season with a mark of 19-20 and 7-11 in the AMC.