Sunday, May 15, 2011

Nashville, Tenn. - With a pair of victories over Lipscomb Saturday in Nashville the Stetson baseball team clinched the 2011 Atlantic Sun Conference Regular-Season Championship. It is the first for the Hatters since 2007 when they also won the regular-season title.

The Hatters have now won eight consecutive conference games and have clinched their ninth A-Sun series in nine opportunities. One more win over Lipscomb would lead to Stetson's third consecutive league series sweep.

After today's games Stetson is now 39-12 overall and 22-4 in the A-Sun while Lipscomb has fallen to 18-32 and 9-17 in league play.

"I am proud of our guys, it wasn't all pretty today but a W is a W and a championship is a championship", said Stetson head coach Pete Dunn. "When we started the season out we weren't given much credit in the conference being picked to finish 5th and we didn't have any players on the conference team. We used that from the get-go as motivation and decided we had to go out and earn it."