Box score
ANDERSON, S.C. - The Anderson University baseball team pounded
out 24 hits but dropped a South Atlantic Conference doubleheader,
9-3 and 7-5, to visiting Carson-Newman Saturday afternoon at
Memorial Stadium.
Anderson (3-9, 0-3 SAC) suffered its sixth consecutive setback,
as Carson-Newman (6-5, 3-0 SAC) swept the three-game weekend
series.
Game #1
Carson-Newman 9, Anderson 3
Sophomore Shawn Delmontagne was 2-for-4 with a fifth-inning home
run and two RBI, while senior Brett Scarberry and sophomore Paul
Como each added a pair of hits in four trips to the plate, with
Como scoring twice. Senior third baseman Blake May was also 2-for-4
with a pair of singles.
Carson-Newman got on the scoreboard with four runs in the second
inning and never trailed in the opener, adding another run in the
fourth and two in the fifth to jump out to a 7-0 lead before the
Trojans scored on Delmontagne's solo one-out home run over the
left-center field wall.
Anderson added another run in the seventh on a pair of hits and
following two runs by the Eagles in the ninth, AU tallied its third
run of the contest to set the final score.
Freshman Landon Beck (0-3) absorbed the loss for AU, allowing
seven earned runs, while striking out five and walking three in
five innings. Junior Chris Armstrong (1-1) earned the win for
Carson-Newman, going seven complete innings and striking out eight,
while not surrendering a walk.
Game #2
Carson-Newman 7, Anderson 5 (8 innings)
Sophomore Zach Reeves finished the game 3-for-5 with an RBI and
a run scored, while shortstop Thomas Padro recorded a pair of
singles and a walk and crossed the plate once. Junior Tony Price
was 2-for-4 with a run scored and two RBI, while freshman Brett
Cash added two singles in four trips o the plate.
In a game scheduled for seven innings, the Trojans rallied for
three runs in the bottom of the sixth to tie the score and answered
an Eagle run in the top of the seventh frame with one of their own
in the bottom of the frame to force extra innings.
Carson-Newman jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the second inning,
with AU responding with a run in the bottom of the third to trim
the deficit to two. Trojan hurler Erick Sanderson settled down to
hold the Eagles to just two hits and one unearned run over the next
three innings, while the Trojan bats came alive to plate three runs
in the bottom of the sixth and even the score at 4-4.
The Eagles regained a brief one-run lead in the seventh, but
Anderson answered once again in the bottom of the frame, as
Sanderson led off the inning with a single past the shortstop and
moved into scoring position freshman Kyle Bailey's sacrifice bunt.
With one out, he went to third as Delmomtagne bounce out to second
and Sanderson evened the score when Tony Price beat out an infield
single that the C-N shortstop was unable to gather in. Padro
followed with a walk, but AU was unable to push across the winning
run.
Carson-Newman plated two runs in the eighth and the Trojans were
unable to answer.
Anderson will get back in action Tuesday at archrival Erskine.
First-pitch in Due West is slated for 2 p.m.