The Basics
Score: Roanoke 5 | Hampden-Sydney 9
Records: Maroons 8-8 / 0-3 ODAC | Tigers 9-2 / 3-2 ODAC
Location: Farmville, Va.
The Lead: The Roanoke baseball team made the trip to face Hampden-Sydney on Saturday afternoon. The Maroons went searching for their first Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) win of the season after falling to Lynchburg last weekend. Roanoke scored early and held a 5-3 edge. However, the Tigers closed the game with six straight runs to win the opener 9-5. In game two, Roanoke took a 3-0 lead into the bottom of the ninth only to see the Tigers rally to tie the game and then win it one inning later, as the Maroons fell 4-3.
Highlights:
- Will Smith led off the afternoon by being hit by a pitch and would advance on a Conner Butler single through the left side. A Mason Staz walk would load the bases for Jonny Wall. Wall delivered a 2-RBI single to left to put Roanoke in front 2-0.
- The lead would be short-lived as HSC scored three times in the bottom of the first.
- Butler doubled to plate Smith and the game was tied. An inning later, Wall doubled and advanced on a ground out. PK Cocolis got a bunt down to score Wall on a sacrifice and the Maroons were back in front.
- The lead grew to 5-3 in the top of the sixth with a Jacob Bonzon solo home run.
- The Tigers scored runs in the bottom of the sixth and seventh to tie the game at 5-5. A four-run eighth inning would be too much to overcome as Roanoke fell, 9-5, in the opening game.
- Butler was 3-4 with a run and an RBI while Wall finished 2-4 with a run and two runs batted in. Will Turner received the start and went six innings, giving up just one earned run on six hits. Brandon Hill and Anthony Sullivan got the game into the eighth but the bullpen couldn't close it out for RC.
The Basics
Score: Roanoke 3 | Hampden-Sydney 4 (10 innings)
Records: Maroons 8-9 / 0-4 ODAC | Tigers 10-5 / 4-2 ODAC
Location: Farmville, Va.
Highlights:
- The game would remain scoreless through the first four innings. In the top of the fifth, Hunter Andrews laced a two-out double and would score on a Bonzon two-bagger to take the lead. Tucker Shiavoni made it 2-0 with an RBI base hit.
- Roanoke made it 3-0 in the top of the sixth as the Maroons used three consecutive Tiger miscues to add to their advantage.
- Caleb Lingenfelter went eight innings of shut-out ball, giving up four hits, one walk, and nine strikeouts. However, the Roanoke bullpen was unable to close out the game. Hampden-Sydney would score three times on five hits to tie the game at 3-3.
- One inning later, the Tigers turned a leadoff free pass into the game winning run on a single to left field.
- Andrews and Bonzon combined to go 2-7 with tw runs and an RBI.
Up next: With rain in the mid-week forecast, the game with Ferrum has been moved up to Monday. The first pitch with the Panthers is scheduled for 7:00pm at Haley Toyota Field in Salem.
