ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University baseball team picked up a sweep of Alderson Broaddus, 8-6 and 20-4, Tuesday afternoon in Mountain East Conference games at Anderson Field.
The Mountain Lions improve to 16-7-1 this season and 6-2 versus MEC foes. Alderson Broaddus is now 1-18 and 1-7 in the conference.
Game 1: Concord 8 – Alderson Broaddus 6
The Mountain Lions used seven unanswered runs to erase a 5-1 deficit it faced early in the game to win the first contest.
CU chipped into the deficit in the fifth inning as sophomore infielder
Zack Saryeldin brought in a pair of runs with a two-run single.
A leadoff walk and an error put a big sixth inning into motion. With runners on second and third and no outs, junior outfielder
Josh Adkins ripped a triple into the left center field gap to tie the game. Now representing the go-ahead run, Adkins raced home on a shallow lineout to center field from junior catcher
Hunter Steel to push Concord in front 6-5.
The Mountain Lions got some insurance from Saryeldin as he belted his fifth home of the season and junior outfielder
Kyle Keenan plated fifth-year senior infielder
Anthony Stehlin to give Concord a three-run cushion.
Alderson Broaddus brought the go-ahead run to the plate in the top of the seventh, but Stehlin induced a groundout to end the game. Stehlin broke the program record with his 12
th career save—it was his third save of the season.
Adkins, Saryeldin and Stehlin all had two hits while Adkins and Saryeldin combined for five RBI.
Fifth-year senior pitcher
Dan Nicholls (2-0) tossed four scoreless innings of relief as he scattered three hits and tallied two strikeouts.
Game 2: Concord 20 – Alderson Broaddus 4
Concord scored 20 or more runs for the second time this season as it cruised to a sweep of AB.
The Mountain Lions scored in five of their six at bats including three runs in back-to-back innings to start the game before a seven-run third to blow the game open.
Fifth-year senior infielder
Brandon Bayne highlighted a three-run second inning by hitting his first career home run, a two-run shot down the left field line. As part of the seven-run outburst the next inning, Keenan had a three-run double for the second time in three games while sophomore infielder
Michael Dupont and sophomore catcher/infielder
Chris Satcher both had RBI singles.
Dupont added an RBI single in the fourth before CU went quiet in the fifth.
However, the sixth inning produced four consecutive doubles to plate three runs. Bayne drew a bases-loaded walk and Saryeldin capped the scoring with a two-run lined single into center field.
The Mountain Lions tied the single-game, seven-inning program record for doubles with seven. CU previously had seven doubles in a seven-inning game with Glenville State in 2013.
Three of Keenan's four hits went for doubles. Saryeldin added two doubles to bring his season total to 17. Dupont and Stehlin both had doubles in the game as Dupont bagged four hits. Keenan registered five RBI. Bayne, Dupont and Satcher both had three RBI.
Freshman pitcher
Jacob Nester (1-1) tossed four innings and allowed four runs to pick up his first career win. Fellow freshman pitcher
Justin Carden recorded the final nine outs to earn the save. The duo combined for seven strikeouts.
The Mountain Lions begin a four-game MEC road trip at Frostburg State 1:00 p.m. Saturday.
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