No. 17 Baseball Wins Game One Against Union

ATHENS, Tenn.- The 17th-ranked baseball team began their final home series of the regular season on Friday. The team hosted the other Bulldogs of the Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC), Union Commonwealth University. The teams started with a single game.

The game was tied after one inning. Cayle Webster, who got on base with a double, scored on Jack Stevens' double to tie the game. TWU held a brief lead when Braxton Turner scored on Webster's sacrifice fly in the third inning. Union tied the score once again in the top of the fourth. 

In the top of the fifth, the home team forced the final lead change. With Corbin Shaw and Dante Leach standing on base, Turner hit a ball that resulted in a error and gave both runners on base the space to score, moving the score to 4-2. Turner, who was standing on third after the error, scored on a sacrifice fly by Webster to give the team a 5-2 lead at the end of the fifth inning. The bottom of the sixth saw more runs score for Tennessee Wesleyan. The first of three runs occurred when Kruise Newman scored on Cody McGill's single. Shaw completed the three-run inning with a two-run home run, moving the lead to 8-2. 

The final runs for the home Bulldogs came across in the seventh inning. A double by Evan Magill allowed Webster to score from first while Daniel Stewart brought Magill home with a double while courtesy runner Hagen Escoto, who got to third on a wild pitch, scored on a Newman sacrifice fly, giving the team eleven runs in the game. TWU won by a final score of 11-3.

Turner, Webster, and Shaw each finished with two RBIs. Sam Rochard had seven strikeouts in the pitching win.

The series for the Bulldogs (31-15, 21-7 AAC)