Baseball splits with Blackburn
Earnest earns his fifth win of the season. Penrod hit his first collegiate home run in game one.
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 5 |
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1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 2 |
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 2 |
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0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | X | 9 | 10 | 0 |
St. Louis, Mo. - It turned into a beautiful day for some college baseball today after yesterday's storms. The Griffins struggled in game one against Blackburn College and gave up a 5-2 lead but rebounded in game two to win 9-3. Fontbonne moves to 14-23 on the year and the Griffins will host their final series of the season this Thursday and Friday against Iowa Wesleyan. Thursday's game at Shaw Park is at 7 p.m. with the senior day doubleheader starting at 1 p.m. Friday.
Game one
Fontbonne jumped out to a 3-0 lead but Blackburn cut the lead down to one in the fourth inning. Fontbonne freshman Jackson Penrod hit a two-run home run, his first career dinger, to give the Griffins a 5-2 advantage going into the fifth inning. Griffin pitcher Brendan Beck got into some trouble in the fifth. Blackburn plated three runs to tie the game before Vince Santarsiero came into the game with two outs and runners on the corners. Blackburn's winning run crossed the plate after a bases-loaded balk was called on Santarsiero.
Blackburn added six more runs in the sixth inning, three on a home run, all unearned. The Griffins added a run in the seventh but left four runners on base over the last three innings as they fell 12-6.
Game two
Austin Earnest got off to a hot start in game two as the freshman struck out all three Beavers in the first inning and came back for more in the third inning as well. He struck out nine in five innings of work to earn his fifth victory of the year.
With runners on first and third, Ethan Borrowman got the Griffins on the board first in the second inning. After Jonathan Hoevelmann was hit by a pitch, Ethan Boyer walked in Logan Mueth. With two outs, the Griffins scored on a passed ball and after Ben Greenway walked to load the bases, Ryan Schocker singled up the middle to score two runs as Fontbonne led 5-0.
Earnest walked in a Beaver in the fourth but Fontbonne designated hitter, Greenway, had his pitcher's back, hitting his fourth home run of the year on a two-run bomb to right field.
Devon Tolan came in to pitch the final four innings for Fontbonne and had backup from outfielder Sean Wallace. Wallace made a diving catch in center and followed up with the third out on a fly ball as well, stranding two Beavers in the sixth.
Wallace then came up offensively for the Griffins and scored Boyer on a single to left to give Fontbonne an 8-2 lead. Blackburn and Fontbonne each scored their final runs in the seventh inning.
Greenway doubled and homered as he went three-of four in game two with two RBI's. Schocker also tallied two RBI's while Boyer hit on two of four attempts.