Piedmont and Reinhardt Game Recap

Piedmont Recap

Loss 5-4

Tough loss for the sqaud. After Andrew Llano blasted his first home run of the year in the 4th inning the Petrels jumped out to a 4-1 lead. Starter Nick Greenfield pitched a very competative game and was the hard luck loser. Piedmont could only muster 5 hits off of Greenfield and only one of those left the infield. In fact, only three balls against him left the infield. But in the 7th Piedmont rallied with two outs for three runs on three Petrel walks.


In the ninth Cliff Cross nailed a double off of the right center field wall missing the game tying homer by inches. Andrew Lofholm was inserted as a pinch runner....Then pinch hitter Jason Mitchell singled off of the secondbasemen's glove but Lofholm was thrown out at the plate by the right fielder for the first out of the inning....A costly mistake and a misread by the coach.


A tough loss which the Petrels led most of the way and a game they probably should have won. In the end too many walks, and a bad judgement cost the birds.

Reinhardt

Loss 11-1

Our first road trip of the season did not go as planned. Maybe it was a little hangover after a tough loss, maybe it was the first road trip or maybe it was dead legs? Either way we were totally out classed by a good Reinhardt team. For whatever reason there is no excuse to not be ready to play. Early in this season we have been very up and down. We need to mature as a ball club. Reinhardt is good, but I think we are better than we showed. We need some guys to step up and play the way they are capable of. I have extreme confidence that this group can do that.

There will be some adjustments made and some guys will have to self evaluate how they are approaching the game. At 2-3 there are no worries, no panic. Keep working and keep pushing.

Up next Washington & Lee Sunday 1pm and Monday 4pm.


News: After an initial scare that we would lose Theo Stathakis for the year to a fractured wrist. It looks like he will have surgery on Tuesday and miss roughly 3-4 weeks depending on how fast he heals.