Box Score
Box score
ANDERSON, S.C. - Brevard sophomore Cody Queen's eighth-inning
one-out homer over the left field fence proved to be the
difference, as the Anderson baseball team opened its final South
Atlantic Conference homestand with a 6-5 setback to the Tornados
Friday night at Anderson Memorial Stadium.
Anderson slipped to 13-29 overall and 6-16 in the conference
with its second loss in the last three games, while Brevard (13-28,
8-14 SAC) snapped a seven-game skid with the victory.
Freshman Chris Ayers was 2-for-3 on the night with a double and
a run-scoring single, while driving in a run and scoring once.
Senior Tony Price added a pair of singles and an RBI and also
crossed the plate once. Freshman Steven Cooper was 2-for-4 with a
triple and scored once. He also added a first-inning walk.
Sophomore Nathan Galliford tripled in the second inning and junior
Paul Como recorded his third home run of the season in the fourth
inning.
Anderson sophomore right-hander Michael Skelly (0-1) suffered
the loss for the Trojans in his seventh relief appearance of the
season. He struck out one, while walking one in an inning of work
and surrendered the home run to Queen. Brevard freshman left-hander
James Phillips earned the win with five innings of relief. He
struck out two, while walking a pair of batters and did not give up
a run.
The Tornados claimed a 2-0 lead in the second inning with a pair
of runs on two hits, with Queen recording both RBI.
The Trojans countered with a run in the bottom of the frame, as
Galliford led off with his second triple of the season and crossed
the plate on Ayers' single up the middle.
Brevard capitalized on a pair of Trojan errors in the fourth
inning to increase its lead to 3-1, but AU answered with three runs
in the bottom of the inning to garner a 4-3 advantage. Como lifted
his one-out home run over the left-field fence for the first score,
and Ayers followed with a double to right-center. Two batters
later, Price singled up the middle to bring home Ayers and Cash
plated Price with another single up the middle.
The Trojans added a run in the fifth when Cooper's line drive
found the gap in right-center and went to the wall, as he ended up
at third to lead off for AU. Senior Erick Sanderson recorded the
RBI by ripping a single to center to score Cooper and push the lead
to 5-3. But Phillips entered the contest with Sanderson and Como on
base and limited the Trojans to just two hits over the final four
innings.
A pair of Trojan miscues led to a pair of Brevard runs in the
seventh, as the Tornados evened the score at five apiece, setting
up Queen's eighth-inning heroics.
The Trojans and Tornados wrap up their three-game series with a
doubleheader slated to start at 1 p.m. Saturday at Memorial
Stadium. With a sweep of the twin bill, Anderson would win its
third weekend conference series in the last four weeks.