Saturday, February 3, 2000
BLUE
HOSE BASEBALL SPLITS HOME OPENER DOUBLEHEADER WITH BREVARD
COLLEGE
CLINTON, SC -- The
Blue Hose baseball team opened up their home opener with a
doubleheader against Brevard College today.
PC (2-3) won the first game with some timely hitting
and great pitching 6-2, while Brevard (1-1) pulls out the
second game with an 8-6 victory.
In the
first game, the Tornados wasted no time getting on the
scoreboard in the bottom of the first on a single by junior
third baseman David
Tollison (Greenville, SC) to score teammate freshman Travis Free (Kingsport, TN) from third. PC answered right back in the bottom up the first when
sophomore first baseman Matt
Warren (Lexington, SC) singled to left field to score
sophomore third baseman Davis Rice (Clinton, SC) from second. The game would stay tied until the fifth inning when Brevard
senior right fielder Ace
Legoff (Saugerties, NY) led off the inning with a triple
down the right field line and later scored on junior second
baseman Billy Hayes’s
(Fredricksburg, VA) single to right field to give the Tornados
a 2-1 advantage. The
Blue Hose would break out in eighth inning on Rice’s two run
homerun to give PC a 3-2 lead.
The Blue Hose would pick up two more runs on junior
left fielder Keagan
Broussard’s (Virginia Beach, VA) double down the
left field line. Broussard would later score on sophomore shortstop Tombo
Hite’s (Abbeville, SC) single to left field.
This would give PC and senior starting pitcher Michael
Burns (Simpsonville, SC) more than enough run support
to finish off the Tornados 6-2.
Burns gets his second win and complete game in as many
tries improving to a 2-0 record on the season while only given
up 1 earned run in eighteen innings pitched.
At the plate the Blue Hose were led by Warren (3-for-4,
1 RBI), Broussard (2-for-3, 2 RBI’s), and Rice (2-for-4, 2
RBI’s). Getting
the loss for Brevard was senior Bobby
Dodenhoff who falls to 0-1.
The
second game saw the Tornados take a quick 4-0 lead in the
bottom of the first when senior first baseman Korre
Humes (Asheville, NC) singled to left to score junior short stop
Jeff Speers (Tampa, FL) from second.
Freshman third baseman Scott
Lefler (Gastonia, NC) hit a three-run homerun to give
Brevard a 4-0 lead. PC
would get two runs back in the bottom of the first on red
shirt freshman Jon
Marefat’s (Lexington, KY) fielders’ choice to
score junior center fielder Chris Turco (Marietta, GA)
from third. The Blue Hose would get another run in the inning to make it
a 4-2 ball game. Brevard
and PC would both get two runs in the second, and PC would add
one more in the third to make it a 6-5 game.
The Blue Hose would tie the game in the bottom of the
sixth when junior second baseman Brad
Hurst (Greer, SC) grounded out to third, but sophomore
catcher Dusty
New (Abbeville, SC) would score from third. The
Tornados would answer right back in the top of the seventh
with two more runs off of Humes and Tollison singles to put
the game away. Leading
the way for the Blue Hose in the second game was Turco going
two-for-three with two runs scored. Getting the win for the
Tornado’s was junior Bryson Stinson (Marshville, NC) while senior Kevin Felts (Winston-Salem, NC) picks up
his first loss of the year.
PC will
travel up to Brevard, NC Sunday for a single game starting at
1:00 pm.