Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Snipes Leads Blue Hose To Win Over West Virginia State In First Career Start
CLINTON, S.C. – Freshman Zach Snipes
(1-0) went six strong innings on the mound, surrendering
only two earned runs to earn his first career win as the
Blue Hose rolled past West Virginia State 9-2 on Wednesday
afternoon at the PC Baseball Complex.
With the win the Blue Hose improve to 12-24 on the year
while the Yellow Jackets drop to 15-7.
WVSU’s Tyler Courts scored the first run of the game in the
top of the first. After leading off with a double, he was
driven in two batters later by Brandon Halstead.
PC stormed back in their half of the first with the first
three batters reaching base. Kyle Craven then put PC on the
board when he grounded to WVSU’s third baseman Jonathan
Stowers, who made an errant throw to the plate scoring Jesse
Harmon. Casey Carlson would then drive in what turned out to
be the game-winning run on a sacrifice fly the following
at-bat to put runners at the corners.
The Blue Hose were then able to plate two more runs in the
next at-bat without a hit. As Kyle Craven broke towards
second, the throw down from the catcher sailed over second
base to score Cory Lyda. The Yellow Jacket’s centerfielder
Eric Workman then tried to gun down Craven hustling toward
third base but his throw also missed the mark, landing at
the third base fence allowing Craven to come all the way
home. The fifth and final run of the inning came a few
batters later when Jesse Harmon coaxed a walk with the bases
loaded to score Robbie Anders.
PC would add to their lead with two runs in the third and a
single run in the fourth and the eighth innings.
The Blue Hose were able to pound out 13 hits in the contest
and capitalized on six Yellow Jacket errors to score five
unearned runs.
Every Blue Hose starter tallied at least one hit in the game
as Russell Robinson, Bobby Holmes, and Anders each had two.
Harmon finished with three RBI as he extended his hitting
streak to eight games on an RBI single in the seventh
inning.
WVSU’s Courts, who drove in the game-winning run in
yesterday’s game, finished with three hits.
Yellow Jacket starter Ryne Holstine (0-1) was knocked from
the game after three innings surrendering seven runs on five
hits.
Andrew Cockerham and Eric Tatum finished the last three
innings for the Blue Hose without allowing a hit or a walk.
Presbyterian will play a conference series
this weekend against Carson-Newman beginning with a noon
doubleheader on Saturday at the PC Baseball Complex. The
final game will be played at 1 p.m. on Sunday afternoon.