PIKEVILLE, KY (February 23, 2007) --- The Milligan College baseball team won over Pikeville (Ky.) College by a score of 3-0 on Friday behind a stellar complete game shutout from freshman Frank Newcomb (Knoxville, Tenn.) in his first collegiate start.

Newcomb scattered five hits, struck out six and walked only one over the nine innings of work.

With a 0-0 tie going into the eighth inning, freshman Danny Bacon (St. Petersburg, Fla.) led off with a walk. Garrett Reed (Gray, Tenn.) then laid down a sacrifice bunt, but reached base safely on an error by the first baseman. With runners on the corners, Baker DeCamp’s (Miami, Fla.) triple broke the game open and pushed the score to 2-0. DeCamp then scored on a throwing error by the Pikeville shortstop on Justin Sauceman’s (Alcoa, Tenn.) ground ball.

Sauceman reached base safely four times in the game, including a fourth inning double.

The win improves the Buffs to 2-5 on the season.

Milligan will travel to Pikeville again tomorrow, for a doubleheader beginning at 12 p.m.