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.

Piedmont Game

Wednesday's game against Piedmont has been moved to Thursday at 5pm!!! Rain and cold weather will make Wednesday a not so fun day to play. See you Thursday!!

SCAC Diamond Weekly

The SCAC has started a new Diamond Notes that will run every week throughout the year. Enjoy.

Diamond Notes

Doubleheader Sweep over Maryville!

Game 1 Recap: Win 3-2

John Hale went 4 strong innings allowing five hits, while striking out three and allowing two runs. But it was Sam Briend in relief picking up the win with 3 nearly perfect innings striking out two and only allowing one hit.

The Petrels offense could only muster two hits but they were timely hits. JJ Rizzo had a two out RBI in the first with a single to rightfield. But the offensive hero was Chris Lucas who was 1 for 2 with a walk, two stolen bases and scored two runs including the go ahead run in the bottom of the sixth on a well excuted 1st and 3rd double steal.

Defensively we were a little shaky, plays that have to be made in critical situations. It was a good win, games good teams have to win.

Game 2 Recap: Win 6-2

The Petrels plated three runs in the bottom of the sixth to break open a 3-2 game and beat Maryville 6-2. After Maryville retired the first two batters in the sixth Stephen Archer laced a single to right, followed by Andrew Lofholm getting hit by a pitch. Then Matt Anderson delivered the big blow with a two-run double over the left-fielders head scoring both Archer and Lofholm. Chris Lucas was 2 for 4 including a double, a run scored and a RBI. Andrew Llano continued his hot hitting going 2 for 2 and on the young season is hitting .667. Stephen Archer had two hits.

Sean Tuttle was very effective on the mound throwing 6 innings and striking out six while only allowing two runs. Nick greenfield came on to earn the save in the 7th.

It was a much better game defensively for the Petrels as they bailed themselves out of a couple of jams with two key double plays. Lofholm also threw out the only attempt of a stolen base during a sweet strike-em out, throw-em out double play in the first.

Next up is Piedmont Wednesday at 5pm.

Note on the LIVE stats: we continue to have software and harware problems and we are trying to resolve the problems. We used two different laptops yesterday and we kept running into problems. We are doing everything we can to get them up and running ASAP. Please be patient.

Have a great Petrel Day.