ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University baseball team split a Mountain East Conference doubleheader as it bounced back from a 12-9 loss to shutout out Fairmont State 11-0 in game two Saturday afternoon at Anderson Field.
CU is now 9-8 overall and 3-1 in conference play. Fairmont State is 9-7 after Saturday and also 3-1 in the MEC.
Game 1: Fairmont State 12 – Concord 9
Eight runs by the Mountain Lions over their final two at-bats weren't enough as they lost by three runs.
Fairmont State ran out to an 8-1 lead through four innings.
Junior catcher
Austin Hear cut into the margin with a two-run home run, his third of the season, in the bottom of the sixth inning. FSU answered with four runs in the top of the seventh.
However, the Mountain Lions made a run at FSU in the bottom of the seventh. The first two hitters of the inning reached which set the table for junior catcher
Kaden Swaim to belt his fourth home run of the season, making the score 12-6. Junior outfielder
Korbin Bostic singled and two batters later senior outfielder
Demetri Jamison walked. Now down to its last out, senior utility
MJ Hunter crushed a home run out to left field to trim the deficit to 12-9. Senior outfielder
D.J. Christian Jr. drew a walk after Hunter's homer, but the rally was snuffed out by Fairmont State.
Hunter was a double shy of the cycle as he finished 3-for-4 with three RBI. Bostic doubled twice for two of his three hits. Swaim drove in three runs on his home run.
Freshman pitcher
Broc Taylor (0-1) went 1.2 innings as four of his five recorded out were strikeouts. He gave up a run on two hits.
Game 2: Concord 11 – Fairmont State 0
The Concord offense provided plenty of support to sophomore pitcher
Jake Robinson who recorded Concord's first shutout in just under two years.
CU got to work in the third inning as sophomore infielder
Nick DiSanti and Bostic had RBI hits in a three-run rally. The Maroon and Gray added two more in the fourth before exploding for six in the fifth inning.
Junior infielder
Matthew DiSanti doubled for the second time to lead off the inning before Bostic drove in M. DiSanti two batters later on his own double. Hear followed with a run-scoring single to plate Swaim. Jamison notched an RBI before three runs scored during graduate infielder
Ty Livingston's at-bat. Livingston poked a single into center field that was unable to be handled and allowed baserunners, Jamison and sophomore infielder
Alex Rodriguez, to score along with Livingston rounding the bases.
On the mound, Robinson dazzled throughout. Four of his first five outs were strikeouts. And after back-to-back singles with two outs in the second, Robinson retired 12 straight before giving up a base hit in the sixth. Robinson (3-2) worked 6.0 innings as he allowed four hits, all singles, and tallied seven strikeouts—the second most of his career. Robinson needed just 69 pitches to get through six innings and limit an FSU lineup that entered the game with 14 or more hits in four of its previous five games.
Graduate pitcher
Joseph Hastings pitched a scoreless a seventh inning to lock down CU's first shutout since April 8, 2023.
Both of M. DiSanti's hits went for doubles and he scored twice. Bostic was 2-for-3 with two RBI. At the bottom of the order, Livingston was 3-for-3 with two RBI. Â
The Mountain Lions travel to UVa.-Wise for a midweek non-conference contest 3:00 p.m. Tuesday.
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