Bryan Rose hits a sacrifice fly against Quincy on Sunday.
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SAUGET, Ill. – Mitchell Broughton hit a three-run homer in the third inning to spark Quincy's 8-2 victory against Northern Kentucky University in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament championship game on Sunday.
Curran Collins and Justin Dunning also hit home runs for Quincy, which improved to 35-18 and won the GLVC crown for the second time in school history. The Hawks built a 6-0 lead and denied NKU's bid for a sixth GLVC Tournament championship.
With the game scoreless in the bottom of the third inning, Broughton stepped to the plate with runners on first and second. He proceeded to launch a three-run homer over the left-field wall to give Quincy a 3-0 lead. It was Broughton's 13th home run of the season.
Dunning extended Quincy's lead to 5-0 in the fourth by blasting a two-run homer to left-center field. The Hawks tacked on another run in the fifth to go up 6-0.
NKU (34-19) fought back in the sixth by plating a run and loading the bases with one out, but Quincy pitcher Chris Conner recorded back-to-back strikeouts to end the Norse threat.
In the seventh, NKU put the first two runners on base and a passed ball opened up another scoring opportunity.
Bryan Rose's sacrifice fly drove in
Brett Cisper to make it 6-2, but Quincy reliever Royce Duncan worked out of the jam and kept the Hawk lead at four runs.
Collins capped the scoring in the bottom of the seventh with a two-run homer.
NKU finished with 10 hits, but the Norse stranded 11 runners on base. Going into Sunday, NKU had won 15 of its last 16 games.
NKU is expected to receive an at-large berth in the NCAA Division II Tournament on Sunday night. The Norse were ranked third in last week's Midwest Region poll.
