PARKERSBURG, W.Va. – The Concord University baseball team split a non-conference doubleheader with Ohio Valley, winning 25-3 in game one before falling 4-3 in the second game, Tuesday afternoon at Bennett Stump Field.
Game 1: Concord 25 – Ohio Valley 3
The Mountain Lions (26-13) scored in six of the seven innings including plating 13 runs in the sixth inning to roll to a game one victory.
The 25 runs are the most scored by a team in the Atlantic Region this season, surpassing the 24 scored by East Stroudsburg against Jefferson on March 28. The 25 runs also represented the most scored by CU in a game since plating 29 scores against Urbana March 20, 2017.
In the 13-run sixth inning, Concord sent 16 batters to the plate that included a two-run home run by junior outfielder
Adam Linkous, his second blast of the season as well as a grand slam by senior outfielder
Evan Webb. Freshman infielder
Ryan Meister also had a bases-clearing double to account for three more runs.
CU pounded out 25 hits with Linkous leading the way on a 5-for-7 day at the plate. Junior infielder
Nathan Neff collected four hits as seven of the nine Concord starters had at least two hits in the game with Meister adding two more hits off the bench.
Webb drove in a team-best six runs while senior catcher
Jordan Clark and Linkous added four RBI.
Sophomore pitcher
Spencer Hoyt limited the OVU (9-31) offense to two hits while fanning a career-best 10 batters to pick up his first collegiate win with a complete game. Hoyt is the fourth Concord pitcher to post 10 or more strikeouts in a start this season.
Game 2: Ohio Valley 4 – Concord 3
The Fighting Scots scored the winning run in the bottom of the seventh on a passed ball to walk off for a split.
Ohio Valley scored twice in the third inning to put the Mountain Lions behind for the first time in the doubleheader. However, Concord quickly rebounded with three runs in the fourth to grab a 3-2 lead.
After reaching base to start the inning, sophomore infielder
Anthony Stehlin hustled home on an OVU error. The next run came courtesy of an RBI single from Neff that brought Webb in after Webb had followed Stehlin's hit by pitch with a single. The final run of the rally brought in Clark on a groundout.
Holding a one-run lead, Concord watched Ohio Valley tie the game in the fifth after a lead-off triple.
The Mountain Lions were able to get the go-ahead run in scoring position in the sixth and seventh, including a two-out triple from Stehlin in the top of the seventh, but the Fighting Scots escaped both situations with the score still tied.
Freshman pitcher
Max Arbogast worked around his own jam in the sixth by stranding a one-out double with a strikeout and pop up to second base. But in the bottom of the seventh, the Fighting Scot loaded the bases with two outs on two singles and a walk before the passed ball gave them the win.
Arbogast (1-2) was charged with the tough loss as he tossed 3.2 innings in relief, allowing one earned run and striking out four.
Stehlin had two hits in the setback.
The Mountain Lions jump back into Mountain East Conference play 1:00 p.m. Saturday at Charleston.
