Box Score
Box score
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Charleston Southern's baseball team bounced
back from a 13-9 loss in the second game of their series with High
Point to take a 6-5 win the series finale on Sunday at CSU
Ballpark. The final four innings of Saturday's game were
completed prior to the start of game three on Sunday.
In Saturday's game, each team scored twice in the first inning.
After High Point put two on the board in the top half, CSU
responded. Freshman Bobby Ison walked to open the inning. Walt
Quattlebaum and Alex Tomasovich were hit by pitches to load the
bases. Freshman Chase Shelton delivered two runs with a single up
the middle.
The first three High Point batters reached base in the top of
the second, the start of a five-run inning for the Panthers, who
grabbed a 7-2 lead. Ison trimmed the lead to four with a sac fly,
scoring Blake Hunt, in the bottom of the second.
High Point scored three in the top of the fourth and led 10-3
before CSU mounted a comeback. Jaren Sustar delivered an RBI single
and Ison followed with another sacrifice fly to trim the lead to
10-5 after four.
In the fifth, Zach Hagaman's single scored Chase Shelton and
John Faircloth doubled Hagaman to third. Hagaman scored on a wild
pitch and Sustar added another RBI single to make it 10-9 after
five innings.
The game was halted due to rain and resumed on Sunday. High
Point immediately added three runs to take a 13-9 lead and neither
team scored over the final three frames. Joe Goodman earned the
win in relief for High Point..
CSU starter Patrick Dolan lasted just over an inning,
allowing five earned runs, seven total, on five hits. CSU used a
total of six pitchers in the contest.
Offensively, Faircloth went 3-for-5 with a run while Sustar was
2-for-5 with two RBI for the Bucs. Wilkins also had a two-hit day,
with Shelton and Hagaman driving home two runs apiece. Eight
batters, including five Buccaneers, were hit by pitches in the
game.
In the series finale, the Panthers took a 2-0 lead in the second
inning on a two-run homer by Adam Miedzianowski but CSU rallied in
the fourth.
Quattlebuam doubled down the right field line to start the rally
and scored on Tomasovich's single. Shelton followed him up with
another single; with Tomasovich scoring on an error by the
centerfielder as the Bucs took a 3-2 lead. Drew Woodall,
Faircloth, Brian Welch and Wilkins had consecutive base hits and
CSU led, 6-2, after four.
CSU starter Charlie McCready, who pitched into the eighth, was
able to hold the Panthers without a run for the next three
innings. After a 40-minute rain delay in the eighth, Corey Deighan
replaced McCready with one out and two runners on. After a walk to
load the bases, Josh Spano singled in a run to cut the deficit to
6-3. McDermott's RBI single scored Rush before Wilson walked with
the bases loaded to send Bujnovsky home to make it a 6-5 game.
Deighan induced an inning ending fly ball to preserve the 6-5
lead.
McCready picked up the win to improve to 3-2 on the season.
McCready allowed four earned runs on seven hits, fanning three in 7
1/3 innings. Deighan earned his second save of the season,
pitching 1 2/3 innings with one run on two hits with two walks and
two strikeouts.
Tomasovich and Shelton each went 2-for-4, while Wilkins also
totaled two hits in the game and led the Bucs with two RBI. Ison,
Tomasovich and Woodall each drove home a run as well as the Bucs
tallied 11 hits on the day.
Jacob Newberry took the loss, for the Panthers, going 6.2
innings with six earned runs, nine hits and four strikeouts.
Charleston Southern will travel across town to the College of
Charleston on Tuesday. The Bucs and the Cougars will face off at 6
p.m. at Patriots Point.