AUSTIN, Texas – McMurry baseball's 2012 season came to an end on Sunday in the championship game of the American Southwest Conference championships with a 7-2 loss to host Concordia-Texas.

The loss dropped the War Hawks' record to 23-24 and closed the books on McMurry's run in the ASC, as the school will moving up the NCAA Division II and the Heartland Conference beginning in the fall of 2012. It was the school's 13th appearance in the ASC tournament and ninth in a row.

The Tornados, ranked #16 in the nation, improved to 36-9 on the season in earning the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Division III championships.

Concordia – which was designated as the visitor for the first game – got a run in the top of the first inning thanks to a one-out double to left by Matt McManemin, who eventually came in on the sacrifice fly by Quinn Guest.

The War Hawks answered in the bottom of the frame. Andrew Bell laced a one-out double off the leftfield wall. That was followed by a single through the right side by Matt Thompson with Bell holding at third.  Connor Griffith struck out to bring up Marcellous Biggins, who slapped a two-out RBI single to left to tie the game, 1-1.

McMurry took its first lead in the bottom half of the third. With one out, Thompson walked and stole second. A ground out advanced Thompson to third base, who came in to score on the next batter when Biggins produced an infield single, 2-1.

The Tornados knotted matters at 2-2 in the top of the fifth with a one-out double and two-out RBI single.

McM starter Zach Matthys (3-5 pitched well and had dodged most of Concordia's bullets…until the seventh inning. A leadoff single, sacrifice and RBI single broke the tie and gave the Tornados a 3-2 lead and what would open a CTX floodgate. Matthys was relieved by Charlie Hejny, but that didn't stop Concordia, which added three more runs before the dust had settled to lead 6-2. An insurance run in the ninth made it the 7-2 final score.

Bell went 2-for-4 on the day, as did Biggins.  Biggins had both McM runs batted in.

Thompson, Biggins, Bell and Griffith were selected to the ASC all-tournament team.