BLUE HOSE
AND EAGLES SPLIT SUNDAY BASEBALL DOUBLEHEADER
JEFFERSON
CITY, Tenn. — The Carson-Newman Eagles and Presbyterian
Blue Hose split a doubleheader on Sunday afternoon at the
Silver Diamond Baseball Complex. The Eagles won the first game
10-2 and Blue Hose won the second contest, 7-4.
The Blue Hose win the opening
series of the South Atlantic Conference schedule 2-1 as they
won Saturday’s game, 9-4. PC improves to 7-6 overall, 2-1 in
conference play. The Eagles fall to 9-10-1, 1-2.
Game 1- Eagles 10, Blue Hose 2
The
Eagles snapped out of their homerun deficit by hitting four
long balls and cruised to a 10-2 win in game one.
Brian
Chapman (Caryville,
Tenn.) gave the Eagles a 4-0 lead in the third inning when he
hit a three-run homer to center field. The Blue Hose cut into
the lead in the fifth to 5-2 when
Jake Lunnen (Sylva, N.C)
homered and Lance
Howard (Simpsonville, S.C.) singled to right to score
Donald Sheppard (Sylvania,
Ga.).
But
the Eagles exploded for five runs in the fifth inning.
Nathan Gravley (Cartersville, Ga.) blasted a two-run homer
to left field and he was followed by a solo homerun by
T.J. Graves (Cincinnati, Ohio). Later in the inning,
Derrick Calkin (Maryville, Tenn.) would steal home and a
PC error would allow Charlie Munroe (Newton, N.J.) to score to produce the 10-2 final.
Game 2- Blue Hose 7, Eagles 4
The
Blue Hose rallied from a 3-2 deficit to take the third game of
the SAC opening weekend series with a 7-4 win over the Eagles.
After
PC had built a 2-0 lead in the second, the Eagles answered
with three runs in the third inning. Chapman scored on a
single to center field,
Derek Milligan (Powell, Tenn.) scored on a ground-out in
the infield and Calkin doubled down the left field line to
plate Chapman to give the Eagles a 3-2 lead.
The
Blue Hose would seize the lead in the fourth on a ground-out
RBI by Philip
Hauserman (Decatur, Ga.) and an infield single by
Sheppard that plated Jonathan Wyman (Duluth, Ga.). After
the Blue Hose added another run in the sixth, the Eagles cut
the lead to 5-4 on a single by Milligan that brought
Jonathan Mary (Maryville, Tenn.) home. The Eagles let a
great chance to take the lead slip away as they left the bases
loaded to end the sixth inning.
Kevin
White (Spartanburg,
S.C.) put the exclamation point on the PC win when he
connected on a two-run homerun to right center in the top of
the seventh inning to make the final score 7-4.