Oran, Advance set up another showdown in Class 1 District 2 tournament title game

ORAN -- The Oran Eagles find themselves in a familiar position, the final of the Class 1 District 2 baseball tournament.

Host Oran -- winners of eight of the past 12 district titles -- advanced with an 8-3 victory over Bernie in Tuesday's semifinal round.

Defending champion Advance, which derailed the Eagles' quest for a fourth straight title last season, set up a rematch with a 3-2 win over Chaffee in the other semifinal. Top-seeded Oran and No. 2 Advance will play for the championship at 4 p.m. Thursday.

The Eagles (22-4) led 8-0 after six innings as the Mules (11-5) got on the board with three unearned runs in their final at-bat.

The Eagles opened the scoring with three first-inning runs.

Chase Seyer's one-hop single past the second baseman drove home Caleb Seyer, aboard on a walk, then Joey Williams' two-run double delivered Kody Campbell and Chase Seyer to send Oran up 3-0.

The Eagles tacked on a fourth run in the second on starting and winning pitcher Austin Dumey's RBI single.

Williams stroked a one-out double in the third and came home on Chris Asmus' single for a 5-0 lead.

Campbell led off the fourth with a triple in the right-field corner and scored on a single by Dumey.

Chase Seyer then crushed a two-run homer to right field for an 8-0 lead.

Dumey went the distance, allowing no earned runs on seven hits with two strikeouts and no walks.

Dumey also helped himself at the plate, topping the 14-hit Oran offense with a 3-for-4, two-RBI day.

ORAN 8, BERNIE 3

Bernie 000 000 3 -- 3 7 3

Oran 311 300 X -- 8 14 2

WP -- Austin Dumey. LP -- Cody Walker. HR -- Chase Seyer (O). 3B -- Cody Campbell (O). 2B -- Britt Arnold (B), Joey Williams 2 (O), Paul Bucher (O). Multiple hits --Bernie, Marcus Massey 2-3; Oran, Dumey 3-4, Chase Seyer 2-4, Tyler Beardslee 2-4, Williams 2-4, Kody Campbell 2-4. Records -- Bernie 11-5, Oran 22-4.

Advance 3, Chaffee 2

After Josh Steger staked No. 3 seed Chaffee (10-15) to a 2-0 lead with a two run home run in the first, Advance (12-4) scored single runs in the first, third and fourth innings

Winning pitcher Jeremy Wade struck out eight batters and allowed three hits in five innings. Jeremy Limbaugh provided two innings of one-hit relief for the save. Limbaugh struck out four.

Losing pitcher Steven Dooley allowed four hits, struck out seven and did not walk a batter.

Chaffee' Chris Hanback went 2-for-3, including a triple.

ADVANCE 3, CHAFFEE 2

Chaffee 200 000 0 -- 2 4 3

Advance 101 100 X -- 3 4 0

WP -- Jeremy Wade. LP -- Steven Dooley, 5-5. HR -- Josh Steiger (C); 3B Chris Hanback (C). 2B -- Moses (A), Limbaugh (A). Multiple hits -- Chaffee, Hanback 2-3. Records -- Chaffee 10-15, Advance 12-4.