Sunday, February 17
Kennsaw, Ga.
12 p.m.
Jax State
3
at
9
Kennesaw State
Eddie Mora-Loera drove in two runs on Sunday vs Kennesaw
2/17/2013 3:04:00 PM | Baseball
KENNESAW, Ga. – Five Kennesaw State pitchers combined for nine strikeouts and the Owls took advantage of four Gamecock errors to claim a 9-3 win over Jacksonville State and sweep the opening weekend series on Sunday.
Will Solomon (1-0) scattered two hits and had three strikeouts in five innings on the mound to earn his first win of the year for the Owls. JSU's Kurt Lipscomb (0-1) had three strikeouts and allowed just two earned runs, but got stuck with the loss for the Gamecocks.
Jax State (0-3) took the early lead after Cal Lambert led off the second inning with a double and scored on Andrew Bishop's infield grounder to take a 1-0 lead.
The Gamecocks plated another run in the third inning when Chase Silvani doubled down the left field line to and scored on Eddie Mora-Loera's grounder as JSU built a 2-0 lead.
Kennesaw State (3-0) answered in the home half of the third and tied the game after Jacob Bruce reached on a two-out single and Bo Way reached on an error. Both players came in to score on JSU's second error of the inning as the Owls tied the game at 2-2.
The Owls took the lead for good in the fourth inning when Andy Almonte scored on JSU's third error of the game and Kal Simmons drove in a run with a RBI grounder for a 4-2 KSU lead.
Kennesaw State added a run in the seventh inning on a RBI single by Way to take a 5-2 lead, but JSU cut into the lead after Mora-Loera drove in his second run of the game with a double to left field to make the score 5-3.
The Owls came right back and tacked on four more runs in the eighth inning for the final margin.
Michael Bishop, Mora-Loera, Lambert and Silvani each had a hit for the Gamecocks, while Mora-Loera drove in two runs.
Jacksonville State will play its home opener on Tuesday against UAB. First pitch is set for 3 p.m. at Rudy Abbott Field.
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