Jean Acevedo worked seven innings from the hill and retired 11 opposing batters to help the Tabor College baseball team to a 12-7 victory over Kansas Wesleyan in the title game of the KCAC Baseball Championship Saturday at the Great Bend Sports Complex.

Acevedo allowed six hits in the win and yielded a run.

Saturday’s championship game was a hit fest as the Bluejays outpaced the Coyotes by a slim 15-13 hitting margin. Both teams had a pair of errors each.

Tabor saddled five unanswered runs over the first two innings before KWU notched the first of their seven runs in the Coyote half of the third. The Bluejays countered with a 7-0 drive over the next three frames to spread the gap, 12-1. KWU threatened  in the top of the eighth with a six-run attack but Bluejay closer Gregory Turner’s one-hit yield upset any hopes for a Coyote rally.

KWU finishes the season at 30-26 while Tabor improves to 49-22. The Bluejays will move on to the NAIA National Championship opening round beginning May 11.