Box Score ENID, Okla.- The Ouachita Tigers punched their ticket to the inaugural Great American Conference Championship Game with their storybook tear through the losers bracket of the tournament. The Tigers kicked off their play on Saturday with a victory over Arkansas Tech and finished off their day with a redeeming 5-4 victory over Southeastern Oklahoma, which happens to be the team that defeated the Tigers in the first round of the tournament.

The Tigers captured the game on a walk-off single by Duncan Collins, knocking Brock Green home and allowing the Tigers to play on into the championship game. Kurt Peppenhorst started the game for Ouachita, putting in 7.1 innings of work and holding Southeastern to five hits and three runs. Zac Treece took the win for the Tigers though, coming in and pitching 1.2 innings while giving up three hits and a single run.

Southeastern posted a late game rally, putting themselves back in the game, as they scored a run in the seventh, eighth and ninth inning. They ended up falling short though, as pitcher David Marris gave up the game winning hit to Collins.

Matt Balogh finished the game with two RBI's for the Tigers, while Brock Green recorded two runs scored, but the RBI that matters most, obviously, falls in the stat line of Collins, who finished the game with a 2-of-5 performance and the most important at-bat of any Tiger player this season.

Ouachita will face off against Southern Arkansas in the championship game at noon tomorrow. If the Tigers prevail in the first game, they will have to defeat the Muleriders a second time, as the Muleriders enter Monday's games without a loss so far in the tournament. The Tigers only won one of the four meetings between the two teams this season, but two of their three losses came by two runs or less.

-Josh Fink, Sports Information Director