MOUNT BERRY, Ga. - After completing an undefeated regular season in league play, No. 2-ranked Berry will host one of two pod rounds in the Southern Athletic Association Championship at Kay Williams Field beginning this Friday at 2 p.m.
The Vikings moved up to a program-high No. 2 ranking in the latest NFCA Top 25 Coaches Poll. Berry is currently 32-4 on the season with a 17-0 mark in SAA play. Berry has won 18 consecutive games entering the postseason.
By virtue of finishing as the SAA Regular Season Champions, the Vikings will host a three team pod in the first round, with Millsaps and Sewanee coming to participate in the double-elimination pod.
Millsaps is the No. 4 seed in the tournament this season, entering the postseason with a 13-21 overall mark. The Majors went 7-11 in SAA play this season. Molli Perry is the cog that sparks the Millsaps engine, leading the team with 31 hits, 30 runs scored, and 23 stolen bases in 26 attempts.
Sewanee also went 7-11 in SAA play, but lost the regular season series to the Majors to enter the tournament as the No. 5 seed. The Tigers have won five more games than last season, entering the tournament with a 12-26 record. Alice Charboneau leads the Tigers in the triple crown categories (.385, 6 HR, 28 RBI).
The Majors and Tigers played three tight games in Jackson, Miss., earlier this season. Millsaps won the first game of the series 4-1, but Sewanee scored two insurance runs in the seventh that proved to be the difference after Millsaps scored three in the bottom of the inning, giving Sewanee the 5-4 win. In the finale, Millsaps scored two in the sixth to pull out a 3-1 win.
The winner of the 2 p.m. game will face the Vikings at 4:30 p.m. The Vikings swept Millsaps by a combined score of 22-2 in Jackson to close the SAA regular season and swept Sewanee at home 31-0 in the first SAA series of March.
Katie White hit .627 in SAA games during the regular season, with
Morgan Frye hitting .526.
Saturday, the loser of the first game will face the loser of the second game at Noon, with the winner of that game facing the winner of game two at 2:30 p.m.
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