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Box Score 2 Sunday, March 8, 2009
Contact: Chris Kilcoyne
Hampden-Sydney Sweeps R-MC Baseball in Jackets ODAC Opener
(Game
One) / (Game
Two)
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, VA - Hampden-Sydney swept both ends of an ODAC
Baseball doubleheader from archrival Randolph-Macon on Sunday. The
Tigers won game one, 7-3 and the night cap by the score of 6-5.
With the score tied at 1-1 in the top of the fifth inning of
game one, R-MC (4-7 / 0-2 ODAC) pulled ahead when James Bierlien
doubled with one out and came around to score when Greg Mitro
followed with an RBI single to make the score 2-1.
H-SC (7-4-1 / 2-1 ODAC) answered with a pair of runs in its half
of the fifth inning when A.J. Prill singled with one out and was
followed by Zach Harrelson who delivered a run scoring double.
Harrelson came around to score on a two-out single by Evan Rogers
to make the score 3-2 in favor of the Tigers.
After the Jackets capitalized on a pair of H-SC errors in the
top of the sixth to tie the game at three, the Tigers scored four
runs with two outs on a squeeze bunt, a bases loaded walk and a two
RBI single by Matt Brown, taking a 7-3 edge.
Kyle Hicks took the loss on the mound for R-MC to drop his
record to 2-1 on the season. Hicks went five innings, giving up
four runs on eight hits and struck out six. John West picked up the
win for H-SC, tossing six innings and punching out seven.
In game two, Ryan Daniel went 7.1 innings on the bump and
surrendered just two runs on four hits and struck out five to lead
the Tigers to the win.
Jordan Walton got R-MC on the board first in the second inning
with his first career home run to make the score 1-0.
The game remained that way until the bottom of the fourth inning
when Harrelson and Brown led the inning off with back-to-back hits
to tie the game and sparking what proved to a be a three run frame
for the home team.
R-MC fought back to cut the H-SC lead to 3-2 when Adam Carpenter
singled home Dann Woods in the top-half of the sixth inning.
The Tigers scored three runs in the eighth inning to push its
lead to 6-2, before R-MC rallied for three runs in its last at bat
when Mitro homered to pull the Jackets within in one at 6-5.
Matt Musser followed Mitro with a double and Dann Woods walked
with one out, but H-SC's Mike Blanchard came out of the pen to
retire Carpenter and Bierlien to earn the save.
Randolph-Macon will be back in action on Tuesday when it travels
to Christopher Newport for a 3:00 p.m. game.
-Yellow Jackets-
