Greenwood, SC - Fifteenth ranked Newberry scored a season-high 18 runs on 16 hits, including eight for extra bases, to defeat Lander 18-9 Tuesday night in non-conference baseball action.
After a scoreless first inning, the Wolves would score four runs in the top of the second.
Aidan Baur would triple to center, scoring
Tanner Lane to make it 1-0. Baur would then score on a wild pitch to make it a two-run game. Later in the inning, COllin Allman would double to score
Dalton Lansdowne, who had drawn a walk.
Zane Tarrance would reach on an infield single to advance Allman to third, and Allman would then score when Tarrance was thrown out trying to steal.
The Bearcats would cut the lead in half with a two-run home run in the bottom half of the third inning, but Newberry would respond with their second four-run inning in the top of the fourth to make it 8-2. The big blow of the inning was a two-run home run for Allman.
After Lander made it a 10-8 game in the bottom of the sixth, the Newberry offense exploded for an eight-run seventh inning to make it a ten-run game. Lansdowne would draw a bases-loaded walk to score the first run of the inning, and then Allman would blast his second home run of the game, a grand slam, to make it 15-8.
Jack Harris would drive in Nick BUtler with a single to the shortstop, and
Zachary Bailes would lace a two-run double down the right-field line to give the Wolves 18 runs.
Allman led Newberry at the plate going 3-6 with a double, and career-highs in home runs (two) and RBIs (seven). Baur was 4-5 with a double, triple, three runs scored, and one run driven in, while Butler finished the game 3-4 with a double and one RBI.
Quinton Driggers (2-0) recorded the win, allowing one run on one hit and striking out three in two and two-thirds innings of relief work.