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Dalton Lansdowne swings at a pitch
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Newberry NBY 17-15, 9-7 SAC
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Winner Tusculum TC 18-16, 10-6 SAC
Newberry NBY
17-15, 9-7 SAC
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Final
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Tusculum TC
18-16, 10-6 SAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Newberry NBY 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 4 16 0
Tusculum TC 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 2 X 7 14 0

W: Charles Hall (3-1) L: Estridge, Evan (2-4) S: Mitch McCain (3)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Randall Stewart, Director of Athletic Communications

Pioneers stifle late rally to take opener

Wolves score twice in eighth, threaten in ninth

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. – Newberry mounted an eighth-inning rally to pull within a run of Tusculum, but the Pioneers salted the game away with two runs in the bottom of the frame for a 7-4 victory in Friday's South Atlantic Conference series opener.


The Wolves (17-15, 9-7 SAC) pounded out 16 hits in the contest but left 11 men on base. Right fielder Tanner Lane established a new career high with his first-ever three-hit performance. Dalton Lansdowne joined Lane with three hits on the evening, while Danton Hyman, Colin Allman, Chase Barbary, and Tyler Ackard had two hits apiece to help Newberry to its fourth-highest hit total of the season.


But the Newberry offense was unable to climb out of a first-inning hole after Tusculum's (18-16, 10-6 SAC) Jarel McDade hit a solo home run on the first pitch of his at-bat.


Trailing 2-0 in the fourth inning, Newberry scored its first run of the contest on Barbary's infield single. Pioneers' pitcher Charles Hall, however, escaped a huge jam with a groundout to end the inning that left the bases loaded for the Wolves.


The Tusculum offense came to life in the bottom of the frame, scoring three runs on four straight one-out hits to built a 5-1 lead. The stretch chased starter Evan Estridge from the game after allowing five runs, all earned, on nine hits in 3.1 innings.


Newberry fought back in the eighth, cutting the deficit to a run on Hyman's two-run single up the middle that plated Lansdowne and Barbary. But two runs on three Tusculum hits in the bottom of the inning allowed Tusculum to increase its cushion to three runs. A pair of hits in the ninth brought the tying run to the plate with two outs before a groundout ended the threat.


Quinton Driggers went four innings in relief for Newberry, tripling his previous longest career outing that came against Lincoln Memorial on April 29, 2017. He also set a new career high with four strikeouts. Charlie  Fessler nailed down the final two outs, including one strikeout, to keep the Wolves within striking distance.


Newberry and Tusculum will conclude their season series with a doubleheader tomorrow afternoon beginning at 1:00 p.m.

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