OZARK, Alabama (April 25, 2014) – The Tuskegee Golden Tiger baseball team found the right time to snap a five-game losing skid against the Stillman Tigers as the Crimson and Gold punched their ticket to the 2014 SIAC Baseball Championship with a 12-8 win.

The game was emotionally uplifting for the Golden Tigers, as Stillman eliminated them last season, beating them twice as Tigers from Tuscaloosa won the 2013 tournament title.

Tuskegee (19-19) took advantage of multiple scoring opportunities and speed on the base paths as they finished with 16 hits in the contest.

Tuskegee scored first, plating four runs in the top of the first inning.  William Buford opened the scoring with a single that scored Cameron Duncan.  Tuskegee 1B Gene Moody then blasted a three-run shot over the left field fence that scored Buford and Cash Oliver.

Stillman (27-17) answered with two runs in the bottom of the inning.  Nick Baldelli-Boggs doubled to score 2014 SIAC Player of the Year Fernando Tanaka before Boggs scored on a Brad Sevenish single.

Tuskegee added three more runs in the second and two in the fourth innings pushing the lead to 9-2 after four innings of play.
The teams would trade single runs in the fifth and six innings before Stillman attempted a late rally.

Paul Winterbottom would single in Anthony Delgado and Dustin Dunn in the bottom of the eighth to cut the lead to 11-6.

Tuskegee would respond in the top of the ninth when Travais Hylton singled to right field scoring Danny Barnes. Stillman would tally two more runs off the bat of Jose Alicea – a double that scored Boggs and Tanaka.  However, the rally would end there.

For Tuskegee, Barnes finished 4-for-5 with three runs scored while Buford went 3-for-5 with three runs driven in.  Hylton, Duncan, Oliver and Moody each had two hits in the game.

For Stillman, Tanaka, Boggs and Dunn each had two hits for the Tigers.
John Bryant (5-6) worked six innings, walking three and striking out one for the win.  Stillman's Tyler Simmons (4-5) suffered the loss allowing three walks while striking out three.

Tuskegee advances to the tournament final while Stillman will face the winner of the Albany State / Kentucky State contest.