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South baseball clinches CIC top seed; Eagle River, West to battle for second

South clinched the Cook Inlet Conference's top spot with a 19-2 win over West on Friday in the CIC baseball playoffs at Mulcahy Stadium.

The Wolverines, now 9-0 in the conference, can lose Saturday and will still go to Sitka as the CIC's top seed for the June 5-7 state tournament.

The loss drops West to 6-3 tying the Eagles with Eagle River, which defeated Dimond 4-1 on Friday. The Lynx fell to 4-5, leaving West and Eagle River to battle for second place.

Should West and Eagle River finish the round-robin tournament with the same record, a one-game playoff will be held to determine who goes to state.

In the Eagle River-Dimond game, both teams had six hits, with Dimond's Kyle Bremont being the only player with two hits.

Eagle River grabbed a 2-0 lead in the first inning and added one run in the second inning and one in the fifth.

Trent Talley earned the win while Preston Micheletto got the loss.

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Talley, R.J. Dirscherl, Cameron Fabacher, Michael Rosenberg, Collin Metzel and Nate Ragina recorded hits for Eagle River.

CIC baseball playoffs

Mulcahy Stadium

Friday's results

South 19, West 2

Eagle River 4, Dimond 1

Saturday's games

1 p.m. -- Dimond vs. West

4 p.m. -- Eagle River vs. South

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