Baseball Drops Final Game in Johnson City

(JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.)-Thomas Morse University baseball team fell to Rio Grande on Sunday afternoon (February 5), 11-3. The Saints overall record fell to 1-2.

• Rio Grande scored two runs in the top of the first inning (0-2).
• The Storm would scored four runs in the top of the fourth inning to give them a 0-6 lead.
• First year Jeremy Ward (Cincinnati, Ohio/Elder) doubled to left center in the bottom of the fifth inning to send in senior Cooper Daniels (Franklin, Ohio/Franklin) to out the Saints on the board (1-6). Graduate student Bailey Martin (Burlington, Ky./Simon Kenton) would then double to center field to score Jeremy Ward to make it a 2-6 game. Sophomore AJ Enginger (Hamilton, Ohio/Badin) singled to right center to put the Saints within three in the bottom of the fifth inning (3-6).
• Rio Grande scored five runs in the top of the eighth inning (3-11).

• Bailey Martin went 2-5 at the plate with one double and an RBI.
• Sophomore Tucker Gray (Williamstown, Ky./Williamstown) was 1-1 at the plate.
• First year Gunner Kalkhoff (Cincinnati, Ohio/La Salle) was 1-1.
• Sophomore Ben Duncan (Hilliard, Ohio/Hilliard Bradley) was 1-2 at the plate.

• Junior Mason Berger (Cincinnati, Ohio/La Salle) pitched 3.1 innings, giving up five earned runs off of five hits and struck out six.
• Senior Hunter Nantz (London, Ky./North Laurel) pitched 1.2 innings, giving up one earned run off of four hits.
• Junior Zach Dugan (Cincinnati, Ohio/Elder) pitched 2.1 inning, giving up four earned runs off of five hits and struck out one.
• First year Tony Spangler (Springboro, Ohio/Springboro) pitched 0.2 innings, giving up zero runs and zero hits and struck out one.
• First year Jack Perdue (Louisville, Ky./Christian Academy) pitched 1 inning, giving up one earned run off of two hits and struck out one.

The Saints return to action next Friday (February 11) in their home opener against Trinity Christian in a double header beginning at 12:00 pm ET at Thomas More Stadium.