BECKLEY, W.Va. – The Concord University baseball team lost a doubleheader to Alderson Broaddus Monday afternoon in Mountain East Conference action at Linda K. Epling Stadium.
The games had to moved away from AB's home field after field conditions were unplayable.
Game 1: Alderson Broaddus 7 – Concord 1
The Battlers (4-4, 4-4 MEC) scored six of their seven runs in the first two innings to take control of the contest.
Down by six runs, Concord (0-11, 0-8 MEC) kept fighting though as it loaded the bases in back-to-back innings—in the fourth and fifth—but was only able to come up with a one run. Freshman infielder
Zack Saryeldin's RBI single plated senior infielder
Joanthony Hernandez in the top of the fifth after a leadoff double.
Three AB pitchers combined to hold the Mountain Lions to five hits in the contest. Hernandez was 1-for-2 with a run and a walk in game one.
Junior pitcher
Dan Nicholls (0-2) was tagged with the loss as he allowed five runs in two innings. Freshman pitchers
Eddy Castellanos and
Andrew Neff struck out three batters a piece as they surrendered just three combined hits over the final four innings.
Game 2: Alderson Broaddus 8 – Concord 3
Concord was unable to rally from an early 4-1 hole as AB scored the final four runs of the game.
The Battlers scored two runs in the first inning, and added a run each in the third and fourth innings to go up 4-1 on the Mountain Lions.
CU responded in the top of the fifth, however, as freshman infielder
Michael Dupont came up with a two-out, two-run triple. Back-to-back one-out walks put runners on base for Dupont who recorded his first career triple to score sophomore outfielder
Richard Ortiz and Saryeldin.
With the deficit down to one run, Alderson Broaddus answered the Concord scoring with four runs in the bottom of the fifth.
Concord was able to get runners aboard in both the sixth and seventh innings, but could not draw any closer.
Senior pitcher
Arik Sypher (0-2) struck out five over 3.1 innings as he allowed four runs—two earned.
Sophomore outfielder
Josh Adkins, Dupont and Saryeldin each had two hits with Dupont adding two RBI.
Wednesday's scheduled home game with Bluefield State is postponed.
The next games for CU are Friday when Frostburg State visits Anderson Field for a doubleheader at 1:00 p.m.
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