Sunday, February 8, 2004
#4 Kennesaw wins Game #1 13-11 while PC wins 4-3
in the second game
CLINTON,
S.C. — Presbyterian College and #4-ranked Kennesaw State
University split games in today’s doubleheader held at the
PC Baseball Complex Sunday afternoon. The Owls won the first
game 13-11 while the Blue Hose came back to win 4-3 in the
second game. Today was the opener for the Owls (1-1) and the
home opener for the Blue Hose (1-3).
GAME
#1 — #4 KENNESAW STATE 13, PRESBYTERIAN 11
Kennesaw State’s junior
outfielder Clint
Watters’ (Rome, Ga.) two-run double in the top of the
ninth broke a 11-11 tie and led the #4-ranked Owls to a 13-11
victory over Presbyterian College. The first game of the
doubleheader saw the team combine for 24 runs, 27 hits, and 10
errors.
The Owls led 6-2 entering
the fourth inning after scoring a pair of runs in their first
three at-bats before the Blue Hose began their comeback. PC
scored three runs in the bottom of the inning highlighted by
Owl error which scored two runs and a RBI-single by senior
outfielder Philip
Hauserman (Decatur, Ga.) to cut the lead to 6-5.
Junior catcher Jonathan Wyman’s (Duluth, Ga.) in the
fifth inning tied the game at 6-6. KSU went ahead 8-6 in the
seventh on a two-run homer from junior first baseman Scott
Conway (Mt. Laurel, NJ) and added three more runs in the
top of the eighth on a pair of RBI singles from Conway and
sophomore outfielder Jon
Love (Lexington, KY). PC responded with a five-run eighth
inning highlighted by an RBI-singles from Hauserman and
redshirt junior outfielder Lance
Howard (Simpsonville, S.C.) and a two-RBI single from
redshirt junior Matt
Bodie (Aiken, S.C.) to tie the game at 11-11.
Brett Campbell (1-0) picked up the win for the Owls after going two innings allowing two runs on four hits while PC’s senior Charles Assey (W. Columbia, S.C.) took the loss after going one inning allowing two runs on one hit. Conway led KSU at the plate by going two-for-four with four RBI and a homerun while PC was led by Hauserman who went two-for-three with two RBI and junior second baseman Donald Sheppard (Sylvania, Ga.) who went four-for-six at the plate with a pair of RBI.
GAME #2
—
PRESBYTERIAN
4, #4 KENNESAW STATE 3
PC’s sophomore Ryan Ariail (Elgin, S.C.)
pitched five solid innings and senior Kevin
White (Spartanburg, S.C.) came in to pick up his first
save of the season as the Blue Hose won the second game over
KSU 4-3 in seven innings.
Ariail went five innings
allowing the Owls three runs on two hits with four strikeouts.
He allowed three runs in the first, but settled down the rest
of the way to silence the KSU offense. White pitched two
innings, allowing one hit in relief action.
PC trailed 3-0 entering the
second, but scored one run on a RBI-double from freshman
catcher Robert Rodebaugh (Marietta,
Ga.) to cut KSU’s lead to 3-1. PC added three runs in the
third to take the lead for good at 4-3. After loading the
bases, PC scored the three runs starting with White being
hit-by-pitch followed by Howard advancing on a walk and Bodie
reached on a fielder’s choice to score White from third.