Wednesday, February 28, 2007
PC Comes Up Short
Against No. 6 Georgia College & State
CLINTON, S.C. - PC suffered a
tough 6-3 loss to 6th-ranked Georgia College & State
University on Wednesday afternoon at the PC Baseball
Complex. The loss drops Presbyterian to 9-13 on the season
as GC & SU improves to 12-3.
After falling behind 4-1 in the fifth the Blue Hose would
pull within one in the seventh inning, plating two off of
Bobcats reliever Shaun Monica. However, that would be as
close as PC would get as GC & SU tacked on two more
insurance runs in the eighth for the 6-3 final.
Presbyterian drew first blood in the top of the second
inning on a RBI fielder's choice by Preston Simpson
(Lancaster, S.C.) plating Jesse Harmon (Newberry, S.C.).
The Bobcats answered with two runs in the third on a RBI
sacrifice fly by Bryan Shaughnessy and a passed ball that
proved to be the game-winner.
Georgia College added two more in their half of the fifth
after Hans Stancil and Shaughnessy led off the inning with
consecutive base hits. With runners on the corners a wild
pitch from PC reliever Jim Wagers (Blackstock, S.C.) brought
home Stancil and moved Shaughnessy all the way around to
third where a sacrifice fly off the bat of Daniel Heflin
scored him the next at-bat putting the Bobcats up 4-1.
Preston Simpson doubled to left to start Presbyterian's
rally in the seventh inning. Robbie Anders (Greenville,
S.C.) singled to left field two batters later to advance
Simpson to third with one out. Anders stole second to set up
a two RBI single by Kyle Craven (Savannah, Ga.) to right
field. William Bolchoz (Mt. Pleasant, S.C.) would reach
first on a strikeout that got by the catcher to continue the
Blue Hose inning. With runners at first and second the
Bobcat's Matt Howard struck out Dane Fehr (St. Simons
Island, Ga.) to stifle the Presbyterian rally.
GC & SU's Justin Mills and Stancil drove in the final runs
of the game to put the game out of reach in the eighth.
Presbyterian out-hit the Bobcats 10-8 but stranded 11
base-runners on the day.
Mitchell Odom (0-3) claimed the loss for PC after pitching
2.1 innings, striking out five and surrendering two runs on
only two hits. Bobcat's starter Ryan Bode won his second
decision of the year after three innings of work, allowing
one run on four hits. Michael Newman picked up the first
save of the year for GC & SU, throwing the final 1.2 innings
and allowing only one hit.
Presbyterian will travel to Catawba for a three-game
conference series this weekend beginning with a 12:00 noon
doubleheader on Saturday and concluding at 1 p.m. Sunday.
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