ELKINS, W.Va. – The Concord University baseball team swept a four-game series from Davis & Elkins by winning the final two games of the weekend set, 12-3 and 11-9, Saturday afternoon in Mountain East Conference South Division action at Harpertown Field.
The Mountain Lions improve to 12-21 this season and 6-8 in the MEC. D&E is now 4-27 and 2-12 in the MEC.
Game 1: Concord 12 – Davis & Elkins 3
CU scored six runs in its first two at-bats and never looked back as it rolled to a nine-run victory.
The Mountain Lions scored three runs in the first inning without a hit. Junior infielder
Nick DiSanti reached on an error to start the game, and raced home on a passed ball. CU drew five walks in the innings as senior outfielder
Korbin Bostic and senior catcher
Austin Hear brought in runs on their bases-loaded walks.
After the Senators scored once in the bottom of the first inning, Concord went back right back to work, scoring three more times all with two outs in the second. Senior infielder
Sam Stowe plated senior infielder
Matthew DiSanti on an RBI single. After another base hit by freshman outfielder
Lucas Cannon put runners on the corners, Bostic came through with a run-scoring single. And the inning was capped on a double steal with Cannon scoring.
The Mountain Lions held a 6-3 edge into the fifth inning when Cannon scored on a sacrifice fly from Hear. A second run came in with senior infielder
Tyson Burke scoring on an RBI double by junior outfielder
Couper Stala.
Stala added two more RBI in a four-run seventh as he started the scoring with a two-run single. M.DiSanti brought in Stala with his own RBI single. Later in the inning, junior infielder
Alex Rodriguez scored on a wild pitch.
Cannon and M. DiSanti both finished 2-for-3 with two runs scored. Stala was 2-for-4 with three RBI. Bostic drove in two runs as did Hear. Graduate student
Joseph Hastings (1-0) picked up the win in relief as he tossed 1.2 innings in his scoreless outing. He allowed two hits and struck out one. Senior pitcher
Kerry Collins allowed three runs in 3.1 innings.
Game 2: Concord 11 – Davis & Elkins 9
The Mountain Lions raced out to a 10-1 lead before having to hold off Davis & Elkins late in the game.
Eight of the 11 runs for Concord came in the second inning.
The first two batters walked in the frame before Bostic came in on a D&E error. The second of the two walks, Cannon, touched home on a passed ball before Hear took the lead to 3-0 on an RBI double. Graduate infielder
Drew Dalton followed with an RBI single. And two batters later, M. DiSanti broke the inning open with a two-run single. Bostic drove in a run with two outs, and Hear tallied his second RBI of the frame with a bases-loaded walk.
Up 8-1 heading to the fourth, Bostic crushed his sixth home run of the year, a solo shot to right field with two outs to extend the advantage. Concord would also a draw another bases-loaded walk in the inning as Dalton's base on balls brought in Cannon.
However, Davis & Elkins began to slowly chip away at the lead and eventually got within 10-8 in the sixth. The Senators had the go-ahead run on base, but a strikeout from junior pitcher
Ryder Wagenknecht stranded the bases loaded and kept CU ahead by two.
An RBI double by freshman outfielder
Jack McGeehan scored sophomore outfielder
Atticus Goodson in the top of the seventh for a much-needed insurance run.
D&E threatened again in the bottom half as it plated a run, but junior pitcher
Jake Robinson induced a fly ball to strand the tying run on base to end the game.
Four different players recorded two RBI in the game: Bostic, Dalton, M. DiSanti and Hear. Bostic and DiSanti each two hits.
Senior pitcher
Logan Darrow (1-2) was the winning pitcher as he tossed 4.1 innings. Robinson, pitching for the second time on the day, recorded the final out for his first save of the year.
The Mountain Lions return home for a four-game series with West Virginia Wesleyan 1:00 p.m. Saturday.
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