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Ben Ferguson
16
Winner Belmont Abbey BAC 11-4
2
Erskine ERSKINE 10-4
Winner
Belmont Abbey BAC
11-4
16
Final
2
Erskine ERSKINE
10-4
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Belmont Abbey BAC 0 6 3 5 2 0 0 16 16 1
Erskine ERSKINE 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 4 3

W: Sniffen, Alex (2-1) L: J. Collett (0-2)

14
Belmont Abbey BAC 11-5
15
Winner Erskine ERSKINE 11-4
Belmont Abbey BAC
11-5
14
Final
15
Erskine ERSKINE
11-4
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
Belmont Abbey BAC 0 5 0 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 14 11 4
Erskine ERSKINE 5 0 4 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 15 11 2

W: J. Hummel (1-1) L: Craddock, Jake (0-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Abbey Baseball Splits Doubleheader With Erskine

BELMONT, N.C. – The Belmont Abbey baseball team split a rescheduled Conference Carolinas doubleheader against Erskine Monday at Abbey Yard. The Crusaders won Game 1 16-2 before falling in Game 2, 15-14, in extra innings.
 
The twin bill was initially scheduled to be completed at Erskine Saturday but inclement weather and field conditions forced the postponement and eventual move to complete the series in Belmont. As a result, Belmont Abbey was the designated visiting team.
 
The pair of games turned into a long evening of baseball with the two games taking a combined seven hours and five minutes to complete.
 
The Crusaders are now 11-5 overall, 1-5 in conference play. The Flying Fleet are 11-4 overall and 3-2 after taking two of three in the series.
 
THE OPENER
  • The Crusaders got off to a strong start in the opener by putting up six runs in the top of the second inning.
  • Joey Humphrey got the scoring started with a two-run home run.
  • The next three runs later inning came via consecutive RBI singles by Carter DuHaime, Ben Ferguson and Connor Tucker. Ferguson later scored on a balk.
  • Ferguson hit a bases-clearing single in the next inning.
  • After the Fleet responded with a two-run third, Belmont Abbey scored five runs in the fourth highlighted by the first career grand slam from Taylor. Taylor reached base safely in all five plate appearances after being hit by a pitch twice and drawing a wlak.
  • Jack Boyles had RBIs in consecutive innings on a single in the fourth and a sacrifice fly in the fifth.
  • Alex Sniffen earned his second win of the season by striking out six in five innings.
 
THE NIGHTCAP
  • The two teams went back-and-forth matching run for in the first four and a half innings.
  • Humphrey's plate appearance in the second inning gave The Abbey its first run after he reached safely on an error. Boyles and Taylor accounted for the next three runs with RBI doubles.
  • DuHaime hit a two-run home run in the fourth while Garrett Browder's RBI single scored two runs.
  • Browder drove in two more runs in the fifth with an RBI double to tie the game.
  • With the game tied at 13-13 in the seventh inning, Tucker put the Crusaders ahead with a solo home run.
  • Erskine tied the game in the bottom of the eighth inning with a home run and hit a walk-off single in the 10th inning.
  • Myles Hedgecock did not allow a run in three-plus innings of relief over the doubleheader and did not allow a hit against the Fleet.
  • The two games were the highest-scoring games for Belmont Abbey so far this season.
  • The Crusaders accounted for 10 extra-base hits in the doubleheader.
 
UP NEXT
  • The Crusaders resume Conference Carolinas play with a three-game series against Southern Wesleyan.
  • The series begins with a game at 5 p.m. Friday at Abbey Yard.
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