Baseball is a game of pace. All it takes is one good inning during a stretch of nine to come out on top — or, in the case of the Westmont baseball team, make history.
The third-seeded Warriors from California trailed No. 6 Cumberlands (Ky.) by a run to start the bottom of the eighth Thursday at Harris Field in the first round of the Avista NAIA World Series.
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