NIACC/Ellsworth tournament game moves to Saturday
WATERLOO - The No. 7 NIACC baseball team will have to wait a day to play its second game at the NJCAA Region XI tournament at Riverfront Stadium.
Second-seed NIACC faces sixth-seed Ellsworth at 1 p.m. Saturday. Top-seed Southeastern takes on fourth-seeded DMACC at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Inclement weather on Friday afternoon caused the two winner's bracket games to be played on Saturday instead of Friday.
Kirkwood and Southwestern are scheduled to play an elimination game at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
The winner of the NIACC/Ellsworth game faces the Southeastern/DMACC winner at 11 a.m. Sunday. The NIACC/Ellsworth loser takes on Iowa Central at 7 p.m. Saturday.
NIACC (42-13) topped Southwestern 5-2 in the opening round of the regional tournament Thursday night. Sophomore Tony Grabowske gained the win for the Trojans with 11 strikeouts in seven innings.
Ellsworth (13-44) advanced with a 3-1 win over third-seed Kirkwood on Thursday.
NIACC won three out of four games against Ellsworth in the final weekend of the regular season. The Trojans also topped Ellsworth 15-9 in elimination game at the 2015 regional tournament.
NIACC notes: Since the 2013 season, the Trojans have a post-season record of 22-9 ... NIACC coach Travis Hergert has a career record of 147-78 ... It is the fifth straight season that the Trojans have won their regional tournament opener ... The last time the Trojans lost their first game at the regional tournament was in 2011 when Kirkwood topped NIACC 4-3 ... Hergert is 12-6 all-time vs. Ellsworth.
Thursday's results
DMACC 10, Iowa Central 6
Southeastern 8, Iowa Lakes 7
Ellsworth 3, Kirkwood 1
NIACC 5, Southwestern 2
Friday's games
Iowa Central 10, Iowa Lakes 4
Kirkwood 7, Southwestern 1
Saturday's games
10 a.m. (Game 7) - DMACC vs. Southeastern
1 p.m. (Game 8) - Ellsworth vs. NIACC
4 p.m. (Game 9) - Kirkwood vs. Southeastern/DMACC loser
7 p.m. (Game 10) - Iowa Central vs. NIACC/Ellsworth loser
Sunday's games
11 a.m. (Game 11) - Southeastern/DMACC winner vs. NIACC/Ellsworth winner
2 p.m. (Game 12) - Winner Game 9 vs. Winner Game 10.
5 p.m. (Game 13) - Loser Game 11 vs. Winner Game 12
Monday's games
Noon - Championship game
3 p.m. - Second championship game, if necessary
