Catawba Advances To Food Lion SAC Baseball Championship Game With 14-4 Win Over Carson-Newman
HICKORY, N.C. - The No. 23 Catawba College Baseball Team (37-15) advanced to the finals of the 2008 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Tournament with a 14-4 win over Carson-Newman (37-16) in an elimination game Sunday afternoon at L.P. Frans Stadium in Hickory, N.C.
Catawba will take on No. 29 Tusculum in the championship game beginning at 1:30 p.m.
Catawba hit three home runs and every player in the starting lineup had at least one hit in the win.
Bubba Morris (Spencer, N.C.) went four-for-four with two doubles and three runs batted in to lead Catawba's 20-hit attack.
Trailing 2-1, the Catawba Indians took control with a four-run second inning highlighted by back-to-back home runs by Matt Kepley (Greensboro, N.C) and David Thomas (Winston-Salem, N.C.).
The Catawba Indians then pushed their advantage to 9-2 with three more runs in the sixth inning, highlighted by Jerry Sands' (Clayton, N.C.) two-run home run, his league-leading 21st of the season.
Catawba then put the game away with four runs in the top of the ninth inning.
Kepley added three hits and three RBI for Catawba while Carson-Newman's Mills Rogers (Simpsonville, S.C.) drove in two runs to lead the Eagles.
Catawba's Tim Smith (Walnut Cove, N.C.) improved to 4-2 with the
victory while Carson-Newman's Wes McIntyre (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
suffered the loss and fell to 5-2.
2008 Catawba Baseball
#23 Catawba vs Carson-Newman
Apr 20, 2008 at Hickory, NC (L.P.
Frans)
Catawba 14 (37-15) Carson-Newman 4
(37-16)
Player AB R H BI
Player AB R H BI
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David Thomas cf............ 5 2 1 1 Langdon Potts
2b........... 3 0 2 0
Chad Baker 2b.............. 5 3 3 1 Profitt
ph................ 1 0 0 0
Jerry Sands rf............. 5 1 1 3 Jason Gray
cf.............. 4 1 1 0
Ryan Query c............... 6 0 3 2 Tyler Kitts
ph............ 1 0 0 0
Craige Lyerly 3b........... 6 1 1 0 Wesley Dozier
dh........... 4 2 2 0
Brett Hatley dh............ 4 1 2 0 Nick Achberger
lf.......... 4 1 1 0
Chris Ahearn ss............ 5 2 2 0 Derek Long
1b.............. 3 0 1 1
Bubba Morris 1b............ 4 3 4 3 Tyler Wynn
rf.............. 3 0 0 0
Matt Kepley lf............. 5 1 3 3 Corey Lamson
ph/rf........ 1 0 0 0
Tim Smith p................ 0 0 0 0 Mills Rogers
ss............ 3 0 1 2
Keith Carrigan p.......... 0 0 0 0 Cory McGinnis
3b........... 3 0 0 0
Cody Nix
ph/3b............ 1 0 0 0
Jonathan McMahon
c......... 3 0 0 0
E.T. McCreary
ph.......... 1 0 0 0
Wes McIntyre
p............. 0 0 0 0
Dustin Davis
p............ 0 0 0 0
Charlie Hill
p............ 0 0 0 0
Willie Buchanan
p......... 0 0 0 0
Jeremy Yoder
p............ 0 0 0 0
Totals..................... 45 14 20 13
Totals..................... 35 4 8 3
Score by Innings R H E
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Catawba............. 141 003 104 - 14 20 2
Carson-Newman....... 200 001 010 - 4 8 3
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E - C.Ahearn(20); B.Morris(10); Rogers(20); McMahon(4);
McIntyre(2). DP - CAT 1. LOB
- CAT 9; C-N 7. 2B - C.Baker 2(16); C.Lyerly(9); B.Morris 2(5);
M.Kepley(5). HR -
D.Thomas(17); J.Sands(21); M.Kepley(3). HBP - D.Thomas; B.Morris;
Potts; Long. SF -
J.Sands(6); Rogers(3). SB - C.Lyerly(23).
Catawba IP H R ER BB SO WP BK HP
IBB AB BF FO GO
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Tim Smith W,4-2........... 7.0 8 4 2 0 2 0 0 2 0
30 32 6 12
Keith Carrigan ............ 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
5 6 4 2
Carson-Newman IP H R ER BB SO WP BK HP
IBB AB BF FO GO
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Wes McIntyre L,5-2........ 1.1 7 5 4 0 2 0 1 0 0
11 11 0 2
Dustin Davis .............. 1.1 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 7 2 1
Charlie Hill .............. 3.0 4 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 0
13 15 4 5
Willie Buchanan ........... 1.1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
5 6 1 3
Jeremy Yoder .............. 2.0 4 4 4 0 1 1 0 1 0
9 11 4 1
WP - Yoder(8). HBP - by T.Smith (Long); by Buchanan
(B.Morris); by T.Smith (Potts); by
Yoder (D.Thomas). BK - K.Carrigan(1); McIntyre(1).
Strikeouts - J.Sands; C.Lyerly; B.Hatley; Wynn;
Rogers. Walks - C.Baker; B.Hatley.
Umpires - HP: Tim Curtis 1B: Ben Frazier 3B:
David Mabe
Start: 10:05 am Time: 2:35 Attendance: 185
T.Smith faced 2 batters in the 8th.