No. 4 Baseball Splits AAC Doubleheader Against Pikeville
| Final (10) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E | |
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Pikeville (KY) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 0 |
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Tennessee Wesleyan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 3 |
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
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Pikeville (KY) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
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Tennessee Wesleyan | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | X | 11 | 13 | 2 |
ATHENS, Tenn.- The baseball team finished their Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) series against the University of Pikeville with a split on Saturday. The fourth-ranked Bulldogs fell in the extra innings in the first game but won the second game 11-3.
Game One:
Through the first four innings, neither team scored. Tennessee Wesleyan started the scoring in the bottom of the fifth with one run.
Cody McGill was responsible for the run, hitting a double that brought in David Ballenilla. The Bulldogs added two more runs in the seventh. Both runs in the form of Kolton Reynolds and Ballenilla came off a Reece Jordan double, moving the team's lead to 3-0.
The game took a turn in the top of the ninth as Pikeville score three runs to tie the game. TWU was not able to score runs in the bottom of the ninth, or in the bottom of the tenth after the opponents scored two in the top of the tenth, giving Pikeville the first win of the doubleheader 5-3 in ten innings.
Cameron Goffar pitched 8.2 innings in the game, finishing with a career-high 11 strikeouts.
Game Two:
The first four runs of the game for the Bulldogs came off home runs. Both were hit by Reynolds. The first of his two home runs was a solo home run in the second inning. The second home run came in the following inning, this time an three-run inside the park home run that brought in Allan Gil Fernandez and Brayan Espinoza in the process.
After a run by Pikeville in the fourth, TWU added to their lead in the bottom of the fourth. As the bases stood loaded, Hagen Escoto hit a single to left field that unloaded third and second base with both McGill and courtesy runner Jonathan Bosque scoring. A ground role double by Espinoza allowed both Jordan and Escoto to score, moving the team's lead to 8-1.
Escoto had two more RBIs in the bottom of the fifth, hitting a single that Bosque and McGill both scored on. Escoto, who moved to second on the throw home on the previous play, was not on base for long as Fernandez hit a double that gave the base runner time to score, giving the team the 11 runs they won with.
Reynolds and Escoto both finished with four RBIs in the win. McGwire Taylor had seven Ks in 6.2 innings.
The win moved the team's record to 21-8 overall and 10-2 in the AAC.