Stu Beath lines a double against Kean.

GRAND CHUTE, Wis. – The College of Wooster scored runs during eight of the nine innings, and Mark Miller (Convoy, Ohio / Crestview) pitched seven scoreless, as the Fighting Scots steadily pulled away to a 14-1 victory over Kean University in a winners' bracket game at the NCAA Div. III Baseball Championship late Saturday afternoon at Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium.

That leaves Wooster (41-9) as just one of two unbeaten in the eight-team field and the Scots will play the other, either Shenandoah University (38-8) or the University of St. Thomas (37-12) pending the result of Saturday's final game, on Sunday night at 7 p.m. Central Standard Time.

Wooster's scoring started in the top of the first. John Warren (New Castle, Pa. / Union Area) knocked a one-out single to left, followed by Stu Beath (St. Louis, Mo. / Avon Old Farms – Conn.) blooping a double down the right-field line and Matt Groezinger (Columbus, Ohio / Upper Arlington) driving home the first run on a sacrifice fly to deep center.

Sean Karpen (Venetia, Pa. / Peters Twp.) started out the third inning by legging out a leadoff triple after driving a ball that reached the wall in left-center and then Warren followed with a deep drive, this time to the warning track in center for another sacrifice fly.

In the fourth, Shane Swearingen (Hillard, Ohio / Bishop Watterson) roped a one-out double down the left-field line and came home when Karpen lined a two-out single to left.

The fifth inning began with a Beath walk, prompting Kean (39-10) to go to the bullpen for the first time. Beath would later steal second base, advancing to third on a throwing error by the catcher, and accounted for the Scots' fourth run when Zack Vesco (Pickerington, Ohio / St. Charles Prep) dropped an RBI single into right-center.

Wooster continued its string of one-run innings in the sixth, as Swearingen took first with a leadoff hit by pitch and eventually came home on Beath's sharp base knock to right-center with two outs.

The Scots began to blow the game open during the seventh, plating two runs in an inning for the first time. Vesco, who had singled, and pinch runner Matthew Johnson (Orrville, Ohio / Orrville) both scored on a Luke Sutton (Galion, Ohio / Glaion) double to right-center.

The Cougars threatened to score on Miller a few times. In the very first inning, their leadoff hitter reached third base with one out, but he ended up getting caught in a rundown after a grounder to Vesco at third. Kean looked like it might make a game of it in the fifth, putting runners on second and third with one out, only to see Miller strikeout the No. 2 hitter and then induce the Cougars' best player into a soft liner to center.

Kean made one last push in the seventh, as again its No. 3 hitter came up in a key situation, this time with the bases loaded and one out, however, Miller forced him into a Taylor-made 6-4-3 double play.

Miller, who improved to 11-1, yielded just six hits and three walks, while striking out two over his seven innings.

Overall, Wooster pounded out 19 hits, including three apiece for Beath (3-for-4), who added two walks in his six plate appearances, Vesco (3-for-5), and Swearingen (3-for-5). Beath, Groezinger, Vesco, and Sutton each drove in two runs.

A Lee Cavico solo homer in the eighth prevented the Cougars from being shutout for the first time in 84 games.