BUCKHANNON, W.Va. – The Concord University baseball team split the final two games of its Mountain East Conference South Division series with West Virginia Wesleyan Sunday as WVWC won the first game 11-1, but CU won the night cap 5-2.
Game 1: West Virginia Wesleyan 11 – Concord 1
WVWC (18-16, 10-10 MEC) scored six runs in the second inning to pull away for the win.
In the second, the Bobcats had three consecutive run-scoring singles before a three-run home run by Corey Lynn capped the inning.
The lone run for Concord (17-19, 11-9 MEC) came on a sacrifice fly by redshirt freshman infielder
Trevor Wiersma that scored freshman infielder
Brett Simmons.
Sophomore pitcher
Damon Frazier (4-5) was charged with the loss as gave up eight runs in 1.2 innings.
Sophomore
Andy Szamski finished 2-for-2 for the Mountain Lions at the plate.
Game 2: Concord 5 – West Virginia Wesleyan 2
A three-run fourth inning gave CU a lead it would not surrender on its way to a 5-2 win to earn a series split with the Bobcats.
After West Virginia Wesleyan plated a run in the first, neither team put a baserunner in scoring position until Concord loaded the bases with nobody out in the fourth. Redshirt freshman outfielder
Jordan Clark came up clutch for the Maroon and Gray as he drilled a single to right field to plate sophomore infielder
Chad Frazier and Wiersma to give Concord a 2-1 lead.
The next batter, sophomore catcher
Paul Williams, executed a sacrifice bunt to score Szamski and push CU in front 3-1.
The Bobcats trimmed Concord's lead to 3-2 in the fifth, and the score remained the same until senior infielder
Holt Cassada drove in Clark and Wiersma in the eighth inning to extend Concord's lead to 5-2.
The tying-run came to the plate in the ninth inning for WVWC, but sophomore pitcher
Reece Edwards retired the final two batters to secure his first save of the season, the win for Concord and the victory for junior pitcher
Nate Werner.
Werner (4-4) tossed 8.1 innings as he scattered seven hits and two runs.
Cassada, senior outfielder
Andrew Seigel and Szamski each had two hits to pace the Concord offense. For Szamski, he notched three, three-hit games in the series.
Clark recorded his team-leading 12
th multi-RBI game of the season with two RBI while Cassada also collected two RBI.
The Mountain Lions play host to Glenville State in a four-game set 1:00 p.m. Saturday.
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