#9 Baseball remains undefeated in midweek, tops UNC Pembroke 10-4

Salisbury, N.C. —- The 9th-ranked Catawba College baseball team improved to 4-0 in midweek games this season, putting up five runs in an inning twice to score a 10-4 win over NCAA Southeast Regional opponent UNC Pembroke at Newman Park on Tuesday.

TEAM STATISTICS

- Both teams recorded seven hits

- Both teams had two extra-base hits

- Catawba committed the lone error in the game

- The Catawba Indians left six runners on base; UNC Pembroke stranded nine

- The Braves had three of five stolen bases

- Catawba pitchers allowed four runs on seven hits and six walks, striking out eight; UNCP's staff allowed 10 runs on seven hits and eight walks, striking out seven

INDIVIDUAL LEADERS

- Nathan Chrismon singled, drove in two and scored twice

- Cooper Bryson was 2-for-3 with a double, two RBI and a run scored

- Cole Hales also doubled in a two-hit outing with an RBI and two runs scored

- Ty Hubbard added two hits, drove in two and stole a base

- Seth Sharpe earned his first collegiate win on the mound in a seven-pitcher effort for Catawba; Joe Burleyson and Sam Alessi combined to strike out three in the final two scoreless innings

HOW IT HAPPENED

FIRST INNING

- A walk, a stolen base and an error got a runner on third with no outs for UNC Pembroke; the runner was thrown out on a fielder's choice to get out of the jam

- A hit-by-pitch and a perfectly executed hit and run put runners on the corners for Catawba with no one out in the bottom half

- James Dunlap got the Catawba Indians on the board with a one-out sac fly

- Hales followed with an RBI double off the center field wall

- Two walks and a wild pitch scored Catawba's third run before Hubbard's two-RBI single up the middle chased the Pembroke starter with Catawba leading 5-0

SECOND INNING

- Pembroke's Ashton Donathan got the Braves on the board with an RBI single up the middle in the second

FIFTH INNING

- UNCP got within three runs on Rowan County native Morgan Padgett's RBI single

- Two walks and a hit-by-pitch loaded the bases with nobody out for Catawba in the bottom half

- Matthew Connolly's RBI walk made it 6-2

- Chrismon drove in two on a high-arcing fly ball down the left field line

- Bryson scored two more on a double to nearly the same spot as Catawba led 10-2

SEVENTH INNING

- Pembroke scratched across two more runs on a pair of RBI singles through the right side

UP NEXT

- Catawba returns to the road this weekend, traveling to UVA Wise for a three-game set with the fourth-place Cavaliers in South Atlantic Conference action

- First pitch on Friday is set for 5 p.m.