The Doane baseball team swept the Morningside College Mustangs yesterday to move back atop the Great Plains Athletic Conference standings
Senior Chance Brull got the ball in game 1 and struck out eight batters on his way to his sixth victory of the season. While outhitting the mustangs 8-3, the score remained close to the end with the Tigers winning 3-2
Sophomore Elliot Engle was on the bump for the second game, and was strong threw six. With Doane leading 4-2, Morningsides Aj Staiert hit a two run triple to tie up the ball game.. Sophomore Nathan Roth came in to relieve and closed down the inning.
With the game going into extra innings, Ethan Schroeder started the eighth inning with a single up the middle. Chris Manning sacrificed an out to move Schroeder into scoring position with one out and Albert coming up. Sophomore Thomas Albert gave himself up to move Schroeder over to third.
Morningside's starting catcher was ejected earlier in the game, leaving their backup to come in. He was unable to glove a wild pitch, which led to Schroeder sliding in head first to win the game 5-4.
The Tigers improved to (23-15, 8-2 GPAC)
No comments:
Post a Comment