Kingsport, Tenn. (May 3, 2012) --- The Milligan College baseball team saw their season come to a close on Thursday afternoon with a 10-3 loss to Reinhardt University in the 2012 Appalachian Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament at Hunter Wright Stadium in Kingsport, Tenn.
 
   Neither team was able to get anything going in the first inning before Reinhardt scored the game's first runs as they scored three in the top of the second. Milligan responded when Kyle Kolat (South Bend, Ind.) hit a double and then crossed the plate off a Joe Purus (Hudson, N.C.) sacrifice fly. However, that was the only run the Buffaloes could get in the frame as they trailed 3-1 entering the third.
 
   The third inning saw both teams strand two runners on the base, and then neither team could get a run on the board in the fourth. The Eagles added two runs in the top of the fifth, and then extended their lead by four runs in the top of the seventh. Milligan added a run when Hunter Carpenter (Sneedville, Tenn.) crossed the plate, but the Buffaloes stranded two runners on the base to end the inning.
 
   After the Eagles added another run in the top of the eighth, Purus crossed the plate off a Dustin Clawson (Johnson City, Tenn.) single in the home side of the inning, but that was the only run the Buffaloes could add before the end of the game.
 
   Purus and Clawson were both 1-for-3 with a RBI. Carpenter also finished 1-for-3 with a run scored, while Kolat was 1-for-4 with a run scored.
 
   On the mound, Sean Robinson (Knoxville, Tenn.) was handed the loss despite not giving up an earned run. In six innings of work, Robinson gave up seven hits and five unearned runs.
 
   Milligan finishes the season 26-27 overall. The Buffaloes will graduate six seniors off this season's squad in Tyler Walker (Anaheim Hills, Calif.), Cory Hilton (Elizabethton, Tenn.), Wesley Jones (Kingsport, Tenn.), Ryan White (Knoxville, Tenn.), Josh Hullet (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Kolat.