Tuesday,
March 22, 2005
#20
YELLOW JACKETS ROLL PAST BLUE HOSE
CLINTON,
S.C. – West Virginia State senior Nicholas Biron
(Winfield, WV) pitched a complete game five hitter to lift the
20th-ranked Yellow Jackets to a 13-1 victory over
Presbyterian College on a rainy afternoon at the PC Baseball
Complex.
WVSU (14-5)
jumped on the board early in the top of the first when senior Jonathan
McDowell (Ronceverte, WV) hit a three-run homerun and
sophomore Joshua Miller (Cattageville, WV) followed him
with a shot of his own.
The Yellow
Jackets ran their lead to 9-0 with five runs in the top of the
second.
PC scored
their lone run in the bottom of the second when sophomore Kemper
Booth (Hendersonville, SC) reached on a fielder’s
choice and scored on an error.
WVSU added
to their lead with three runs in the fifth, highlighted by a
two-run homerun by junior Kevin Goode (Brunswick, MD),
and scored a single run in the eighth to set the final margin.
McDowell
led West Virginia State with four hits and five RBI’s, while
junior Robert Flinn (Parkersburg, WV) and Miller both
finished with two hits apiece. No Blue Hose batter had more
than one hit.
Biron
picked up the win, allowing no earned runs on five hits with
three strikeouts in eight innings of work. Robert
Cook (Clinton, SC) took the loss for PC.
Both teams will be back in action tomorrow afternoon, weather permitting, with a single game beginning at 3:00 pm at the PC Baseball Complex.