MIDWAY, Ky. - Ohio Christian had one upset left in its system and followed a similar formula as the day before, ending Midway's baseball season with an 11-5 win in an elimination game of the best-of-three River States Conference Championship opening round Friday.

As they did in the second game Thursday, in which they rallied to win 7-6 in 12 innings, the Trailblazers fell behind 4-0. The Eagles scored on an RBI single by Barrett McGill in the first inning, an error in the second, then doubled their lead on a two-run Nick Eastham double in the third.

Even after Ohio Christian cut into the lead with a run in the fourth, Midway had an answer, pushing ahead 5-1 when Eastham homered in his ensuing at-bat in the fifth.

But the game got turned on its head in the sixth inning, and it started with more heroics from Matthew Keener.

A day after he threw what would have been the winning run out at home in the ninth inning before then scoring the winning run in the 12th, Keener hit a two-run home run to left field, the first of his college career, to cut Midway's lead to 5-3.

Four batters later, with a runner on third and two out, Garrett Crane homered to virtually the same spot to tie the game.

The TrailBlazers, who didn't even have a baserunner until the fourth inning, then proceeded to take the lead with a three-run seventh, with the first two coming off of back-to-back Midway errors.

For the second day in a row, relief pitcher Ridge Clark was then able to close the game out.

As he was Thursday, Clark was inserted into the game with two men on in the seventh inning and again escaped with no damage, forcing back-to-back flyouts.

Midway would strand at least one runner without scoring in its next two at-bats as well. In eight innings against Clark in two days, the Eagles didn't score and left 12 men on base, with six stranded in scoring position.

Any hopes of a comeback were squashed when another unheralded player, pinch hitter Jered Sanders, delivered a bases-clearing, three-run double with two outs and two strikes in the ninth inning.

After some mid-season struggles, Midway appeared to have turned a corner, and following an 11-0 win in the first game of the opening round, had won 10 of 12 games.

Instead, its the 13-30 TrailBlazers who advance to neutral site play in Chillicothe, Ohio, while the Eagles' season comes to a 22-25 end.

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