MAGEE — For the second year in a row Southeast Lauderdale is headed back to the third round.

 

Behind the pitching of Nathan Wilson along with two big innings the Tigers held on to beat Magee 4-3 in Game 2 of the Second Round of the MHSAA Class 3A baseball playoffs on Monday night at Trojan Field.

 

Southeast Lauderdale (28-3) will face West Marion in the Third Round of the Class 3A playoffs beginning this Friday night. West Marion beat Southeast Lauderdale in the 3A South State Championship last season.

 

“We started off really well and then it got shaky in the third, but Nathan did a great job of keeping his composure and finding his pitches and keeping us in the ball game,” said Southeast Lauderdale coach Austin Quigley. “We scored early and then we kinda quit. We go up four runs and got complacent. We got to do a better job of playing station to station baseball.”

 

Southeast Lauderdale struck first with two runs in the top of the second as Mason Chapman delivered an RBI double to left and then scored on an RBI single by Cohon Moseley.

 

The Tigers extended their lead to 4-0 in the top of the third on a two-run single by Chapman.

 

Magee scored all three runs in the bottom of the third to cut the Southeast Lauderdale lead to 4-3 on a two-run single by Kendal Middleton and a RBI single by Kyshawn Ducksworth.

 

That was all the scoring the rest of the game.

 

“We get to live to fight for another day, get to practice tomorrow and get prepared for a familiar opponent,” Quigley said. “We still got a lot of guys on the team that remember that feeling from last year, so hopefully that’s some motivation.”

 

Wilson (8-1) got the win on the mound tossing a complete game scattering four hits, three runs, and had eight strikeouts. He also went 3-for-3 at the plate for the Tigers, while Chapman went 2-for-3 with three RBI’s for SE Lauderdale.

 

“My fastball was working really well tonight and was able to spot it around the plate when I needed too and threw my off speed when I needed to,” Wilson said. “Jumped on them early and got complacent, but we locked in and got the job done. West Marion is a team is the team that put us out last year, so it’s going to be a tough series and a fight.”

 

Middleton had two hits to lead Magee (11-11). Akavion Griffith (5-4) took the loss on the mound for the Trojans.