Coach DG Nelson’s Salts Lake Community College Basball Team is coming from behind this season, coming from behind to take out unfair victory, but the tables were started on Bruce on Monday morning.
Matoon’s Matoon’s Lake Lake Land College retreated with three runs, scored five runs in the top of the eighth innings and before SLCC 11-9 in a second round game at the Grand Junction, Junior College World Series in Colorado.
SLCC, known as #Brucru on social media, falls into a one-loss bracket in the double-elimination tournament and will face Shelton State Community College of Alabama’s Shelton State Community College on MDT in Grand Junction at 10 am on Tuesday.
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Bruce fell to 44–11 in the season with disadvantages. He won his 44th win in the tournament opener late on Saturday night, with the Florida Southwestern State 16–2 in seven innings.
On Monday, Luke Jacobs took SLCC a 2–0 lead with two runs in the first innings. In the second, Hudson Manwaring’s sacrifice made it 4–0 SLCC.
Lake Land scored six runs at the top of the third and took a 6-4 lead, which means that the team from Lincoln’s land scored all their 11 runs in two innings.
SLCC took the RBI double by Chandler Reber and a 7-6 lead by Jake Mortenson by Jake Mortenson by 7-6. Bruce took a 9–6 lead over another bag fly by Easton Romero’s RBI single and Manwaring in the seventh in the sixth.
Lake Land took the lead, Bruce threatened at the bottom of eight but Romero was stuck in second place after one double.
In Bruce’s victory on the inauguration day, which did not begin until 10:25 pm on Saturday night and ended at around 1:15 am on Sunday morning, Manwaring made four hits and scored five runs. Pitcher Jackson Grosman played five innings and allowed just one hit, exiting five.
Salt Lake Community College Tournament has number 8 seed and Florida Crew was number 3 Seed.
Lake land number is 9 seed and will play Florence-Darlington in South Carolina at 7 pm on Tuesday evening at a undefeated bracket.
Bruce is playing in the Juco World Series for the second time in three years. Two years ago, he lost a heartbreaker on Opening Day and then the next morning, so it is the farthest that he made it in the National Championship tournament.