Game 1 at Mississippi
NJAA............ 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 3 10 0
Mississippi..... 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 - 4 10 1
W: Oswalt L: Hutton
Bill Melton tripled leading off the bottom of the ninth and scored on Frank White’s single to win the opener for Mississippi.
Roy Oswalt gave up 10 hits, but walked nine and struck out six in going the distance for the winners. White and Dave Parker each drove in two runs for Mississippi.
Tony Solaita and Craig Shipley drove in runs in the first inning for NJAA (non-Japan Asia plus Australia; or the Eastern Hemisphere minus Japan), and Shin-Soo Choo’s RBI single in the fourth made it 3-1 NJAA.
Chan Ho Park pitched into the sixth before Mississippi tied it on RBI singles by Parker and White. Mark Hutton, the fifth NJAA pitcher, gave up the Melton triple and White single in the ninth for the defeat.
Game 2 at Mississippi
NJAA............ 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 11 1
Mississippi..... 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 - 3 9 1
W: Russell L: Lloyd
HR: Melton
Bill Hall scored the tying run in the ninth as a pinch runner, and then stayed in the game to drive in the winning run in the 10th to give Mississippi a 2-0 series edge.
NJAA held a 2-1 lead in the game behind Chien-Ming Wang, who pitched 7 1/3 solid innings and knocked in a run in the second inning after left fielder Ellis Burks dropped a fly ball.
But in the last of the ninth, Burks doubled leading off and was replaced by Hall. He eventually scored on an infield out by Bill Melton, who homered earlier for Mississippi’s first run.
Pinch hitter George Scott, batting for winning pitcher Reb Russell, led off the 10th against Graeme Lloyd with a single. Cool Papa Bell hit into a force play, and moved to second on a groundout. Dave Parker was walked intentionally and Hall followed with the winning single.
Claude Passeau pitched eight innings for Mississippi, giving up 10 hits but just one earned run.
Game 3 at Mississippi
Mississippi..... 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 - 6 11 0
NJAA............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 - 5 7 1
W: Bridges L: Kim S: Ferriss
HR: Parker, Gibbs, Nilsson
Dave Parker homered off Byung-Hyun Kim with two out in the ninth as Mississippi won in its last at-bat for the third time to complete the series sweep.
Mississippi built a 5-0 lead, mostly against NJAA starter Danny Graves, but Guy Bush’s shutout went away in the eighth. NJAA loaded the bases on two singles and a walk, and Bush walked Eddie Ainsmith to force in a run and bring the tying run to the plate. Marshall Bridges came in to face lefty Dave Nilsson, whose grand slam tied the game. Bridges got the next two outs and ended up as the winner on Parker’s homer.
NJAA got the tying run to second in the ninth against Boo Ferriss, on Glenn Williams’ single and pinch runner Trent Durrington’s stolen base. But Ferriss retired the next two hitters for the save and the sweep.
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