Anderson Takes Two From Coker
March 22, 2003ANDERSON, S.C. – Anderson College managed to stop a Coker rally in the top of the seventh inning in the second game to take a 12-10 victory and a sweep of a Carolinas-Virginia Athletic Conference doubleheader Saturday afternoon at Anderson Memorial Stadium. In the first game, F.A. Vildosola singled home Jason Ratliff with one out in the bottom of the ninth to give Anderson a 3-2 victory. The sweep improves Anderson to 18-8 overall and 6-4 in the CVAC. Coker falls to 16-13-1 and 4-6-1. The Trojans jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the second game with a five-run second. The big hits in the inning were an RBI triple by Vildosola and a two-out, two-run double by Dan Kitchens. But the Cobras refused to fold. They scored single runs in the third and fourth and then tied the game with a three-run sixth. Mike Steinberg’s double cut the Anderson lead to 5-3 then an error by Trojan third baseman Seth Thompson allowed the tying runs to score. Anderson answered Coker’s rally by scoring seven runs in the sixth for a 12-5 lead. The inning featured a total of six singles, including four straight. Donavon Schmidt capped the inning with a two-run single. The Cobras tried to rally one more time in the seventh. Nick Wates, who replaced Anderson starter Brett Youngblood with two outs in the sixth, got roughed up in the seventh. Coker opened the inning with four straight hits and pushed across five runs before Wates was replaced by Adam Dymond. Dymond got Eddie Frey to ground into a double play to end the game. The first game was a pitching duel between Anderson’s Donnie Fetner and Coker’s Adam Hensley. Anderson took a 1-0 lead in the second on singles by Jason Jones, Donavon Schmidt, and Vildosola, who drove in four runs in the two games. After Schmidt’s single, Hensley retired 16 of the next 17 and 14 straight during one stretch. Fetner wiggled out of jams in the second and sixth to blank the Cobras through six innings, but Coker tied the game in the seventh on a lead-off triple by Dustin Dockter and a ground out by Steinberg. Coker took a 2-1 lead in the eighth when Jack Healey led off with a single, moved to second on a sacrifice, and scored on a two-out single by Conrad Deese. Anderson tied the game at 2 in the eighth. Joe Whitham reached second on a two-base error by Frey, the Coker centerfielder, to open the inning. Whitham then moved to third on a fielder’s choice, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Jared Taylor. In the bottom of the ninth, Kitchens doubled, Ratliff singled, and Jason Jones was intentionally walked to load the bases. After Kitchens was cut down at the plate for the first out, Vildosola provided the game-winning hit. Fetner struck out four, walked one, and scattered eight hits in nine innings to outduel Hensley, who struck out eight, walked one intentionally, and allowed seven hits. The third game of the series will be played Sunday at 1 p.m.
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