Box Score For immediate release - 4/18/2013 - #374
Roanoke Outlasts Hornets in 10th Inning, 4-3
SALEM, VA – The Lynchburg College baseball team found itself in a huge game against Roanoke College as far as Old Dominion Athletic Conference tournament seeding went Thursday night, coming back from a 3-1 deficit before falling 4-3 in ten innings.
The Maroons got on the board first in the second inning on an RBI single by Boone Hagy. Lynchburg fought back in the fourth inning, scoring one without the benefit of a hit to tie up the game.
Maroon starter Jacob McMillan walked Dan Savage and hit Dustin Arrowood with a pitch, before walking Pat Harris to load the bases for Michael Burks. The senior, Burks, worked the count to draw the free pass RBI.
Roanoke plated a run in each of the fourth and fifth innings to take a 3-1 lead before the Hornets clawed back one more time as back-to-back fielding errors put the Hornets in good position to lead off the sixth. Lincoln Evans singled after Harris and Rob Tomasulo reached on the errors, setting up an RBI single by Michael Kenah.
LC forced a pitching change to lead off the seventh and Joe Rogers greeted the new reliever with a double to right field. Arrowood reached on a bunt single while trying to move Rogers over, allowing Harris to loft a sacrifice fly to right field, tying the game at three in the process.
Brandon Miller used the momentum that the offense provided to set down the side in the bottom of the seventh. He then worked around a walk in the eighth and picked up a timely 9-3 double play in the ninth to send the game to extra innings.
Kenah just missed a homerun to left-center field in the top of the tenth to take the lead as the ball hit off the wall for a double. He was later stranded, sending the game to the bottom of the tenth where the Hornets went to Charlie Thieringer out of the bullpen. The sophomore got the first two Maroons out before Jacob Clifton's homerun to left-center ended the game.
Miller went nine innings for the Hornets, surrendering three runs while working around eight hits and four walks. Evans, Kenah, and Rogers had two hits each for LC.
Hagy drove in two runs for Roanoke (16-19/8-10 ODAC) while Clifton scored two runs.
Lynchburg (18-16-1/8-9-1 ODAC) returns home for Senior Day Saturday against Bridgewater College (26-9/17-1 ODAC). The doubleheader, which will determine positioning in the ODAC tournament, starts at noon.
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