The Lee University baseball team completed a three-game weekend sweep at Saint Leo in Florida by winning 5-4 and 9-4 on Saturday. Geremy Walton tripled twice and drove in a run and Spencer Mossburg doubled and singled and also had an RBI in the first game for the Flames (6-1), while Jordan Howard scored twice. Leadoff man Mossburg was 3-for-5 with two runs in the finale, when Peyton Meeker was 3-for-4 and Drew Johnson 2-for-4, each with two RBIs and two runs, and Miguel Pimentel was 2-for-3 with two RBIs. Nathan Wierzgac also was 2-for-3.
– Covenant College completed a weekend baseball sweep of visiting Emory & Henry by winning Saturday’s games 8-7 and 6-1. The Scots (3-3) weathered a five-run seventh inning from the Wasps in the first game and scored five of their own in the fifth and sixth of the finale. Luke Harvey was 2-for-4 and matched Trenton Nobles and Forrest Hunter with two runs in the 8-7 game, when starting pitcher Drew Bradley allowed five hits and two runs in his six innings. Nobles and Devin Cerrato each had two hits, an RBI and a run in the 6-1 win, while Caleb Bloye had two RBIs and Zach Kyzer and three relief pitchers combined on a three-hitter.
– Tennessee Wesleyan lifted its baseball record to 4-2 by winning 8-5 in 15 inninngs and 11-4 on Saturday at Auburn-Montgomery. That first game lasted 4 hours, 37 minutes, and Edwin Bonilla had five hits and Daniel Tolano hit a two-run homer and got the pitching win after Austin Schiber and Brantley Flanagan combined for seven innings of scoreless relief for the Bulldogs. For TWU in the second game, Adrian Gonzalez, Collin Ridout and Alfred Cruz had three hits each and Pedro Barrios batted in two runs, and Carson Bach got the pitching win with four innings and on earned runs.
– Bryan College won 12-11 after losing 4-1 against visiting Missouri Baptist in baseball Saturday. In Bryan’s 5-2 win Friday against the same team, Justin Morhardt and Wade Weinburger each was 1-for-2 with a walk, a double and two RBIs and pitchers Chris Sauve-Gebhardt and Chad Burrows combined for a three-hitter with eight strikeouts in seven innings. Weinburger was 1-for-2 with a home run in the 11-1 loss. Lake Burris had the 4-4 Lions’ RBI in Saturday’s first game and was 3-for-3 with a home run and three RBIs in the series finale, when Trevor Behrent homered twice and plated six runs and Kila Zuttermeister and Morhardt each was 3-for-4, Zuttermeister with a homer, a triple, two RBIs and three runs.
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