Friday, April 20, 2001
TUSCULUM ELIMINATES PC WITH 8-7 EXTRA-INNING WIN AT BASEBALL TOURNAMENTNEWBERRY, S.C. -- Doug Hering’s RBI double to the gap in left-center field in the 10th inning gave No. 5 seed Tusculum College an 8-7 win over No. 3 seed Presbyterian College in an elimination game at the 2001 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference baseball tournament Friday night at Kirkland Field.
The Pioneers (27-23) advance to the 10 a.m. elimination game Saturday against No. 2 seed Wingate University, which defeated No. 4 seeded Catawba College earlier Friday. The Blue Hose fell to 29-25.
Casey Taylor started the inning by reaching against PC reliever Davis Rice (2-1) on a fielding error by PC third baseman Brian Grimm. Rice got the next two batters out on strike outs before Hering, who went 2-for-5, laced a double to the left-center field gap and Taylor scored all the way from first base.
Tusculum reliever Justin Aldridge (2-2), who pitched the final 2 1/3 innings, retired the side in order in the bottom half of the inning.
Tusculum jumped out to a 5-0 lead as they scored three times in the third and twice in the fourth. Jose Martinez drove in the Pioneers’ first run on a ground out while Pat Compton, who went 2-for-5, drove in two more with a single through the right side in the third. Mike Klossner, who went 3-for-6, drove in a run in the fourth with a triple and Steven Darnell, who went 3-for-5, added a RBI double.
PC rallied to tie the game at 5 with five runs in the bottom of the fourth. Grimm drove in a run on an infield single and the Blue Hose scored another run on a wild pitch from Tusculum starter Danny Woodbury. Chris Turco added an RBI single and Keagan Broussard, who went 2-for-4, had a RBI double. A sacrifice fly by Rice tied the game at 5.
The Blue Hose took the lead with a pair of runs in the fifth. Joseph Bishop, who went 2-for-3, doubled down the left field line to score the first run while Tombo Hite drove in the other run on a sacrifice fly.
The Pioneers knotted the game at 7 in the top of the sixth. Darnell led off with a triple and came around to score on a single by Martinez, who later scored on a single by Taylor.