ALMA, Mich. – Albion College tuned up for the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Baseball Tournament by sweeping a doubleheader from Alma College by scores of 4-1 and 3-1 at Klenk Park. The Britons compiled a 16-12 record in MIAA contests to gain the No. 4 seed for the league tournament which begins with a nine-inning game at Adrian College at 4 p.m. Wednesday.

Game one began Friday, but the action was suspended in the fourth inning when rain made the field unplayable. Albion scored three times in the fourth to hold a 3-0 lead when the game was stopped. B.J. Konkle (Marshall) drew a leadoff walk and Ben Gould (Alpena)followed with a bunt single. Adam Mazza (Macomb/Dakota) drew a one-out walk to load the bases. Konkle scored on Chad Gromek's (Lansing/Lansing Catholic Central) single and Gould scored when Davin Montgomery (Novi/Northville) was hit by a pitch. Mazza crossed the plate on a wild pitch.

Kyle Cassidy (Naperville, Ill./Waubonsie Valley) threw three no-hit innings Friday, but he did not return to the mound when action continued Sunday. Pete Salens (Bad Axe) worked the fourth and fifth innings to earn credit for the victory and Gromek struck out two of the four batters he faced in the seventh to gain the save.

Six Albion pitchers combined to yield two hits and two walks in game two. Starter David Pardo (Azusa, Calif.) walked the leadoff batter in the first but he retired the next six batters he faced to gain credit for the victory. Salens worked around a one-out single in the seventh by getting the final two batters to groundout to third as he collected the save.

Shimmel staked the pitching staff to the early lead with a RBI single in the first. Konkle drove in the game-winning run with a single in the fourth, and he tacked on an insurance run with a RBI double in the sixth.

Konkle produced three hits, four walks, and five RBI in the four-game series with Alma (Albion swept 4-0 and 6-5 games from the Scots at Frank Joranko Field on May 3). Shimmel was 4-for-8 with three RBI and Chuck DeClarke (Holt/Lansing Catholic Central) was 5-for-13 with a RBI.