ANDERSON, S.C. – The Anderson baseball team dropped both ends of a South Atlantic Conference twin bill to Newberry, 8-7 and 12-4, Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium.

Anderson fell to 15-17 overall and 2-13 in league action with the setbacks, while Newberry improved to 30-7 and 12-3, with its fourth win in five outings and eighth victory in 11 decisions.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
Game #1
Newberry 8, Anderson 7
Jaxon Young was 2-for-4 in the opener, with a pair of singles and an RBI. Kye Andress added a single, was hit by a pitch and drove in two runs, while crossing the plate twice. Justin Fox posted a single, was hit by a pitch two times and scored twice. Carlos Hernandez notched an RBI-single and drew a fourth-inning walk.

Joseph Cottone drew the start and limited the Wolves to just three runs on four hits through six innings, but ran into trouble in the seventh inning. Jackson Herring (2-2) suffered the loss after giving up a run on four hits in 2.1 innings of relief. Right-hander Landon Henley tossed the final 2/3 of an inning, while walking one and striking out one.

Game #2
Newberry 12, Anderson 4
Nick Vella was 2-for-4 in the nightcap, with two RBI and a run scored, with Andress recording a single and reaching on an error, while driving in a run and scoring a run. Anthony Pandolfi drove in a run with a sixth-inning single, while Jackson Van Ness reached base in all three at-bats, with a single, a walk and he was hit by a pitch.

Andrew Imperatore (1-4) took loss after allowing five runs on eight hits over 4.1 innings. He fanned four batters and issued just one free pass.

HOW IT HAPPENED
Game 1
Newberry jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead after center fielder Zane Tarrance was hit by a pitch with one out and scored on Braylin Marine's opposite-field triple down the right-field line.

Cottone then settled down and retired seven straight batters and nine of the next 10 Wolves, with the Trojans rallying to take a 3-1 lead with three runs in the bottom of the fourth. Newberry knotted the score with a pair of runs in the top of the fifth, while AU took advantage of three singles to plate a pair of runs in its half of the sixth inning to regain the lead, at 5-3.

Tarrance came to the plate with no outs and bases loaded in the top of the seventh inning and gave the Wolves the lead for good with a grand slam by lifting the ball just over the left-field fence.

The Trojans rallied again – deadlocking the score at 7-7 by plating two runs in the bottom of the inning when Carlos Hernandez singled to bring home Van Ness from third and Andress followed by bouncing out to the right side to score JC LeGrand with the tying run.

Neither team managed to push a run across in the eighth and with the top of the order due up for both squads in the ninth inning, the Wolves managed to score a solo run with one out, while the Trojans were retired in order.

Game 2
The Wolves scored three times in the top of the top of the third and added another run in the fourth, before Vella led off the bottom of the fourth with a single and scored on Andress' two-out base hit.

Newberry pushed out to a 5-1 advantage with a run in the top of the fifth, while Vella drove in a pair of runs with a two-out single in the bottom of the inning to trim the deficit to 5-3.

But the Wolves broke the game open with a five-run sixth inning and added two more in their final at-bat after AU scored an unearned run in the bottom of the sixth.

NOTABLES
• The Trojans and Wolves have met on 59 occasions, with Newberry leading the all-time series, 36-23. The first-ever meeting between the two programs occurred during the 1998 campaign.
• The Wolves have won the last seven matchups and 10 of the last 13 meetings.
• Kye Andress stretched his hitting streak to seven games.
• JC LeGrand has reached base safely in 14 straight games.
• Jackson Van Ness has reached base safely in five consecutive games.

UP NEXT
AU is scheduled to visit Southern Wesleyan Tuesday night, with the Trojans and Warriors slated to wrap up a game from Feb. 23 that was suspended due to fog in the ninth inning at Memorial Stadium. Southern Wesleyan was leading, 9-6, with bases loaded and two outs in the top of the ninth, when the game was suspended due to safety concerns by the umpiring crew.

Following the conclusion of that contest, the two teams will square off in the regularly-scheduled game.

The Trojans are scheduled to return home a day later to play host to Augusta on Wednesday, with first-pitch slated for 6 p.m. at Memorial Stadium.