Sunday, March 16, 2003
BLUE
HOSE AND EAGLES SPLIT BASEBALL DOUBLEHEADER
CLINTON,
S.C. –Presbyterian
(11-13, 4-1) moved into first place of the South Atlantic
Conference baseball standing today as it split a doubleheader
with Carson-Newman College (11-12, 2-3) at the PC Baseball
Complex.
GAME
1: PRESBYTERIAN
3, CARSON-NEWMAN 1
Blue
Hose senior starting pitcher Richard
Barkley (Sumter, SC) went seven strong innings today,
scattering five hits for one run and striking out four
batters, as he picked up his third win of the season to
improve to 3-2 on the year.
Senior short stop Davis
Rice (Clinton, SC) provided the offensive spark for PC
as he went two-for-three at the plate with two RBI.
Eagles starting pitcher John Wallace (Marietta, GA) took the loss going six innings giving up three earned runs off of nine hits while striking out four batters.
GAME
2: CARSON-NEWMAN
8, PRESBYTERIAN 4
In
game two it was all Eagles as they touched up Blue Hose junior
starting pitcher Travis
Hill (Rock Hill, SC) for seven runs and went on to
defeat PC 8-4. With
two outs in the first inning senior first baseman Ricky
Luttrell (Knoxville, TN) started a rally that gave C-N a
3-0 lead after one inning.
The Eagles never looked back as they put two more on in
the second and fourth inning as well as one run in the fifth
to take an 8-1 lead.
Leading
the charge for the Eagles was junior catcher Wes Ward (Marietta,
GA) who went five-of-seven in the two games with one RBI and
two runs.
PC
rallied for two in the seventh inning but Eagles starting
pitcher Derrick Calkin (Maryville, TN) kept the Blue
Hose bats relatively quiet throughout the second game as he
went the distance scattering nine hits for three runs and four
strikeouts.
The Blue Hose will return to action this Tuesday as they travel to Due West, SC to take on Erskine College in a game scheduled to begin at 2:30 pm. The Eagles will also play Tuesday as they take on King College at 2:00 pm in Jefferson City, TN.