Lee University bounced back from an eight-inning 8-7 loss to visiting Auburn-Montgomery with an eight-inning 7-6 win in their Southern States Athletic Conference baseball doubleheader Saturday in Cleveland.
All three games in the series went extras, and the final play summarized the closeness. Pinch-runner Mike Fasolo scored from second base on Jorge Saez’s single, but only when the throw from center field got away from the AUM catcher.
Saez was 2-for-4 with three RBIs and Blake Barber was 3-for-4 with two RBIs in that game for Lee (42-8-1, 23-4), ranked No. 2 in the NAIA. James Fowlkes was 1-for-2 with a walk and scored twice. Mike Moore was 3-for-3 with three RBIs and Saez and Edmanuel Rivera had two hits each for the Flames in their loss.
• Sewanee 26-3, Centre 10-11: At Sewanee, Ryne Sullivan had four hits with two homers, a double and nine RBIs in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference win for the hosts and had three doubles and two RBIs in the loss. Jack Whaley contributed a grand slam among three hits in game one for the Tigers (14-8, 3-8), and Connor Liston had two hits behind Lee Schurlknight’s pitching. Scott Ward added two hits in game two.
• Emory 7-4, Covenant 2-5: At Atlanta, the visiting Scots fought back with two runs in the top of the ninth inning to win the series finale. Paul Phillips was hit by a pitch, K.C. Simons sacrificed him to second and David Lockwood doubled in a run and scored on James Rollins’ single in the go-ahead rally, and Rollins was 3-for-5 with two RBIs while Lockwood was 4-for-5 and scored twice. Simons was 2-for-3 and scored a run. He and Rollins each was 2-for-4 in the loss for Covenant (16-15).