Cal Lutheran Answers Back

Cal Lutheran starter Richard Bell paced the Kingsmen to a 10-5 victory over Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in a losers’ bracket game Friday at the NCAA Division III Baseball Championships in Salem, Va.

The Kingsmen (31-13-1) will play at 9 a.m. Sunday against the loser of a winners’ bracket game today between Upper Iowa College and William Paterson College.

Bell (10-3), a junior left-hander, allowed 10 hits and two earned runs in seven innings with 10 strikeouts.

The Kingsmen, who lost to Wisconsin-Oshkosh in the first round, 4-0, scored three runs in both the first and fourth innings and two in the fifth for an 8-0 lead over the Engineers (29-5). Cal Lutheran’s Adam Rauch and Tom McGee each finished with three hits and a run batted in.