ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University baseball team took two games from Frostburg State, winning 3-2 and 10-5, Friday afternoon in a Mountain East Conference doubleheader at Anderson Field.
Concord improves to 8-7 and is over .500 for the first time since the third game of the season. FSU falls to 8-5.
Game 1: Concord 3 – Frostburg State 2
CU scored the game's final three runs, including a walk-off walk in the seventh inning to take game one.
With the game tied at 2-2 heading to the final inning of regulation, junior pitcher
Logan Darrow worked his third inning of scoreless relief to keep the game tied at 2-2.
In the bottom, junior outfielder
Dawson Gragg got hit on a 1-0 pitch to start the inning. Sophomore infielder
Nick DiSanti followed by drawing a walk. Now with one out, DiSanti and Gragg executed a double steal before junior catcher
Kaden Swaim was walked intentionally to load the bases.
A fielder's choice produced the second out of the inning at home point, but junior catcher
Austin Hear drew a five-pitch walk to score DiSanti and lift CU to the win.
Frostburg State scored a run in the second inning and doubled the lead in the third inning. However, Swaim knotted the game with a two-run home run in the bottom of the third. It was his team-best third home run of the season.
Darrow (1-1) was the winning pitch in his relief effort. He tallied two strikeouts and only allowed two hits. Graduate pitcher
Coby Ingle allowed two runs (one earned) on three hits while fanning three Bobcat hitters over four innings.
CU only had four hits in the game with Swaim's home run and a sixth-inning double from senior outfielder
Demetri Jamison accounting for extra-base hits.
Game 2: Concord 10 – Frostburg State 5
The Mountain Lions used two four-run innings to pull away from FSU in completing the sweep.
Concord's first big inning came in the third. With the bases loaded and one out, junior outfielder
Korbin Bostic sent an opposite field double into the left-center gap which brought in all three baserunners. Bostic would score on the next at-bat on a single by Hear.
The four-run third gave the Maroon and Gray a 4-1 lead.
Each team scored in the fourth with DiSanti driving in one of his three runs in the contest.
Up 5-2 in the bottom of the fifth inning, CU executed a double steal with senior outfielder
D.J. Christian Jr. swiping home for the first run of the inning. Senior utility
MJ Hunter brought in Jamison on his first triple of the season. And DiSanti's single scored Hunter along with graduate infielder
Ty Livingston to cap the four-run rally.
FSU got three runs across in the sixth, but junior pitcher
Kerry Collins closed the door by retiring six of the final seven hitters he faced.
DiSanti was 3-for-4 with three RBI. Bostic drove in three runs on his double. Seven different players accounted for CU's 10 hits.
Graduate pitcher
Zach Powell (3-2) worked into the sixth inning as he tossed 5.0 innings. Powell scattered six hits and allowed three runs (two earned) while recording five strikeouts.
The Mountain Lions wrap up a 12-game home stand with a 1:00 p.m. Saturday doubleheader against Fairmont State.
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