2002: Lewis-Clark State College Baseball NAIA World Series Championship No. 12

NAIA Baseball National Championship

NAIA College Baseball World Series, Game 19 (May 31, 2002)

Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) 12, Oklahoma City 8

LEWISTON, Idaho First baseman Mike Madrid's two-run double in the bottom of the sixth broke a 7-7 tie as the Lewis-Clark State College Warriors won its 12th National Title, 12-8, over top-ranked Oklahoma City University, Friday night at Harris Field.  LCSC won its third title in four years.

Lewis-Clark State (41-16) got out to a quick lead by plating seven runs in the third inning.  Again, Madrid was the catalyst for the offense.  He hit a bases loaded single up the middle, scoring a pair of runs to put the Warriors up 3-0.  A couple of batters later, Mark Gallagher would hit a two-run double to left running the score to 5-0.  Then the next batter, Nick Walker, singled to the gap in right center scoring two more runs.  Of the seven runs, only two were earned.

Oklahoma City (58-15) got four of those runs back in the top of the fourth off of Warrior starter Tim Petke.  Dan Wells hit a bases loaded double to center field, plating two runs, cutting the L-C lead to four.  Two batters later, Kennard Bibbs singled to left, scoring a run making it 7-4 Lewis-Clark State.

The Stars weren't finished as Blair Harris ripped his 5th home run of the year, this a three-run shot to tie the game and knock Petke out of the game.  Kevin Welch came in relief for the Warriors.

After Welch tossed 1 1/3 innings of quality relief, ace Andy Torres was called upon to close out the game.  Torres, the World Series MVP, has just pitched a complete game shutout two days prior against Albertson, and had also tossed a five-inning complete game shutout against Bellevue to open the series.

OCU would plate one more run in the seventh to draw to within two, 10-8.  But L-C catcher Gabe Stajduhar squelched any Star rally with a two-run blast off of reliever K.C. Klopp.

After giving up singles to two of the three hitters in the ninth for the Stars, Torres settled in and got a pop up to short and then struck out the last batter.

Lewis-Clark State 12, Oklahoma City 8 (May 31, 2002 at Lewiston, ID)
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Oklahoma City....... 000 430 100 - 8 14 2 (58-15)
Lewis-Clark State... 007 003 02X - 12 14 1 (41-16)
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Pitchers: Oklahoma City - STEPHENS; HENDLEY(3); KLOPP(7); CROSSLEY(8). Lewis-Clark State -
PETKE; WELCH(5); TORRES(7).
Win-WELCH(5-1) Save-TORRES(3) Loss-HENDLEY(12-3) T-2:51 A-4880
HR OCU - HARRIS (5).
HR LCSC - STAJDUHAR (10).