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Game Score: USI 11, AASU 7
Eagles beat Pirates, 11-7
SAVANNAH, Ga. – The 18
th-ranked University of Southern Indiana baseball team ended the first road trip of the year on a positive note with an 11-7 victory over 21
st-ranked Armstrong Atlantic State University. USI rises to 1-2, while AASU goes to 8-1.
The Screaming Eagles opened the scoring with a four-run third inning for the early 4-0 advantage. USI sophomore rightfielder
Brent Weinzapfel (Evansville, Indiana) highlighted the third inning rally with a two-run home run for the Eagles' third and fourth runs of the game.
The Pirates would get a run back in the bottom of the third and the score would remain 4-1 until AASU scored four in the bottom of the sixth to take a short-lived 5-4 advantage.
USI matched AASU's four-run rally with one of its own in the top of the seventh and regained its three-run lead, 8-5. Eagles' junior third baseman
Reece Rounder (Evansville, Indiana) propelled USI back into the lead with a three-run triple to left field after sophomore leftfielder
Bryce Shoulders (Newburgh, Indiana) forced in a run with a RBI walk.
The Eagles extended the lead to four runs in the top of the eighth, 9-5, when junior centerfielder
B.J. Willis (Cincinnati, Ohio), who had three hits in the game, scored on a wild pitch. USI would plate two more in the top of the ninth for its largest lead of the game, 11-6, after AASU had scratched a tally across in the bottom of the eighth.
The Pirates would get a run in the ninth, leaving two runners on, for the 11-7 final.
On the mound for USI, junior left-hander
Adam Carver (Arthur, Illinois) picked up his first win as an Eagle. Carver worked two-thirds of an inning in relief of freshman right-hander
Ben Wright (Newburgh, Indiana). Wright started the game for USI, allowing seven hits and four runs in 5.2 innings of work.
Junior right-hander
Matthew Davidson (St. Charles, Missouri) recorded his first save as an Eagle after getting the final two outs in the game.
The Eagles come home to open the 2012 home schedule February 25-26 when they host a three-game series against Lake Erie College. The first pitch of the doubleheader on February 25 is 1 p.m., while the series finale on February 26 is slated to start at 11 a.m.
