Baseball Splits their Opening Day in Johnson City

(JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.)-Thomas More University baseball team split their opening series on Saturday (February 4) falling 6-1 to IU South bend and defeating WVU Tech 7-6. The Saints overall record improves to 1-1.


Game 1:

• IU South Bend scored one run in the bottom of the first inning (0-1).
• IU South Bend scored two runs in the bottom of the second inning (0-3).
• IU South Bend scored three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning (0-6).
• In the top of the 7th inning, junior Brady Baldock (Burlington, Ky./St. Henry) singled up the middle to send in sophomore Ben Duncan (Hilliard, Ohio/Hilliard Bradley) for an RBI single (1-6).

Game 2:

• In the top of the first inning, senior Derek Atwood (Burlington, Ky./Conner) hit a triple to center field for an RBI triple to send in sophomore AJ Enginger (Hamilton, Ohio/Badin) and junior Gavin Pearson (Burlington, Ky./Cooper) to put the Saints on the board 2-0.
• WVU Tech scored four runs in the bottom of the first inning (2-4).
• Derek Atwood hit a sac fly to right field to score Gavin Pearson to put the Saints within one (3-4).
• WVU Tech would score one run in the bottom of the third inning (2-5).
• WVU Tech scored one run in the fourth inning (2-6).
• AJ Enginger singled to the infield to send in Gavin Pearson in the top of the fifth inning (4-6). Graduate Student Bailey Martin (Independence, Ky./Simon Kenton) would score on a wild pitch to put the Saints within one in the top of the fifth (5-6).
• Gavin Pearson knocked in senior Cooper Daniels (Franklin, Ohio/Franklin) off a triple to make it a tie game at 6-6.
• Bailey Martin hit a sac fly to left field to score Gavin Pearson to give the Saints the go ahead lead in the bottom of the sixth inning (7-6).
• In the top of the sixth inning, Bailey Martin hit a sac fly to left field to score Gavin Pearson for the go ahead run (7-6).

Game 1:

• Brady Baldock went 1-3 at the plate with one RBI.
• Bailey Martin was 1-3.
• Senior Jacob Caruso (Rootstown, Ohio/Rootstown) was 1-3 at the plate.

Game 2:

• Gavin Pearson went 3-3 at the plate with one RBI and scored four runs. He hit a double and a triple.
• AJ Enginger was 2-2 with one RBI and scored one run.
• Derek Atwood was 1-3 with three RBIs.

Game 1:

• Junior Mychal Grogan (Cincinnati, Ohio/Elder) pitched 4.1 innings, giving up four earned runs off of five hits, and struck out six.
• Sophomore Jackson Grimmelsman (Cincinnati, Ohio/Elder) pitched 0.2 innings, giving up two earned runs off of two hits.
• First year Kellen Sandhas (Cincinnati, Ohio/Elder) pitched 1.0 innings, giving up zero hits and zero runs. 

Game 2

• Junior Landen Scott (Independence, Ky./Simon Kenton) pitched 3 innings, giving up six earned runs off of seven hits and struck out four.
• Sophomore Austin Dennis (Cincinnati, Ohio/Oak Hills) pitched 3.0 innings, giving up zero runs and zero hits and struck out four.
• Fifth year Justin Bierbaum (Bridgetown, Ohio/La Salle) pitched 1.0 giving up zero runs and hits with one strike out and got the save for the Saints.

The Saints return to action tomorrow against Rio Grande at 2:00 pm ET in Johnson City.