Box Score
Box score
ANDERSON, S.C. - Despite both teams recording 10 hits apiece,
Anderson University baseball benefited from four costly GRU Augusta
errors to capture a 9-4 win over its Peach Belt Conference foe
Thursday afternoon at Anderson Memorial Stadium.
The win clinches a split in the two-game, season-long series
after the Jaguars captured the opening game, 4-3, on Feb. 18 at
Lake Olmstead Field. The Trojans improve to 10-18 for the season,
while GRU Augusta has dropped four straight contests and moves to
11-17.
Three Trojans posted two hits apiece for the afternoon, as
sophomore leftfielder Garrett Bernardo finished the afternoon
2-for-3 with two RBI and a run scored. Senior catcher Johnathan
Zalud tallied a 2-for-3 afternoon with a run scored, while junior
middle infielder Brett Cash went 2-for-5 with an RBI and a run
scored.
Sophomore right-hander David Thompson claimed his third win of
the season, completing seven innings and striking out two GRU
hitters. After beginning the season with an ERA above 11, Thompson
has his ERA below four after giving up just two earned runs in his
last two starts. For the season, the right-hander has struck out 33
batters in 34 innings.
After the Jaguars carried a 1-0 lead into the fourth inning, the
Trojans answered with at least two runs over the next four innings,
taking a commanding 9-1 lead. After GRU's Hunter Boose connected
with an eighth-inning home run, senior right-hander Will Walls came
on in the ninth and shut the door on the Jaguars with a scoreless
final inning.
Despite the 10 hits for the day, the Trojans failed to post an
extra-base hit. With the offense coming alive after the third
inning, AU hitters saw six different pitchers from the GRU Augusta
staff as starter Tyler Grooms completed the most innings of three.
After Grooms exited for eventual losing pitcher, David Bermudez,
Anderson's attack began with an RBI single from Zalud, followed by
a wild pitch, scoring senior Paul Como.
Later, Cash drove in senior Nathan Galliford in the fifth
inning, while Bernardo singled up the middle in the sixth inning,
plating senior David Jones.
With the victory, Anderson snaps a three-game losing streak as
it returns to South Atlantic Conference play on Friday. The Trojans
begin a three-game homestand with Tusculum, beginning at 6 p.m.,
followed by a doubleheader on Saturday beginning at 1 p.m.