ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University baseball team overcame a 6-5 deficit in the bottom of the ninth as it opened up the home portion of its schedule at Anderson Field with a 7-6 win over Ohio Valley Sunday afternoon.
CU (3-1) erased an early deficit as it trailed 3-0 after the top of the first. The Mountain Lions rebounded in the bottom of the frame as junior catcher
Jakob Divers drove in senior outfielder
Evan Webb, and on the same play senior catcher
Jordan Clark came in to score on an error in the outfield.
In the third, Divers was in the middle of the run producing again as his sacrifice fly plated Webb who had led off the inning with a base hit. The next batter, junior outfielder
Adam Linkous, sent a single through the right side that scored Clark who had doubled Webb over to third base earlier in the frame.
Up 4-3, Concord added an insurance run in the seventh inning. After drawing a leadoff walk, junior infielder
Nathan Neff raced home on a run-scoring single from sophomore infielder
Anthony Stehlin.
However, Ohio Valley (0-9) came storming back as it scored three runs on three hits and capitalized on an error and two walks to take a 6-5 advantage.
OVU produced a 1-2-3 inning in the Concord eighth, and Linkous escaped a bases-loaded jam in the top of the ninth to set up the bottom of the inning with the Mountain Lions still down one.
Neff led off the inning with a looping single into shallow center field while junior outfielder
Ryan Fralin beat out a bunt. After a sacrifice bunt by senior infielder
Ian Southcott and a walk to Stehlin to load the bases, senior infielder
Brett Simmons stepped to the plate.
The Callaway, Virginia native had been hitless on the day, but he sprayed a line drive single into left center field to score Neff and Fralin, giving Concord a 7-6 win.
After giving up three unearned runs in the first inning, senior pitcher
Will Guay kept OVU off the board in the next five innings. Guay struck out 10 batters while scattering three hits and walking four in six innings.
Linkous (1-0) earned the win by pitching a scoreless top of the ninth.
Clark led a 14-hit attack for CU with three hits. Neff and Stehlin added two hits each. Divers and Simmons drove in two runs apiece.
Concord and the Fighting Scots conclude their three-game series 1:00 p.m. Monday with a doubleheader from Anderson Field.
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