AUSTIN, Texas – Temple College Baseball swept Monday's doubleheader against Concordia University JV 7-6 in Game 1 and 10-1 in Game 2 at Tornado Field. The Leopards are now 6-1 on the season.
Game 1
After taking a 2-1 lead in the top of the 3rd, the Leopards were plagued with errors and gave up 5 runs in the bottom half of the 3rd inning to fall behind 6-2. With 4 innings left to play Hagen Rose came in and kept the score where it was at for 3.1 innings allowing only 1 hit, 1 walk and struck out 5. Hogan Heller got things going in the top of the 6th with a 1 out walk before three consecutive hits by Andre Jackson, Zane Spinn and Luke Banister to cut the lead to 6-5 heading into the 7th inning. Needing 1 run to tie, Caleb Hill led off the top of the 7th with a walk. Freshman infielder Raithen Malone came up with a big 2 out hit to score Hill to tie the game followed up by a double by Sophomore Zane Spinn to put the Leopards up by 1. Mason Bryant took the mound looking for his first save of the year and did exactly that facing three batters and striking out all three to secure the 5th win of the season for the Leopards and the first for Hagen Rose.
Game 2
After a slow going first game the Leopard offense scored in all but one inning throughout this 7 inning game led by Freshman Chris Morrow and Sophomore Travis Chestnut who each had 2 hits in the game. Travis Chestnut had two doubles, Chris Morrow, Raithen Malone, Joseph Redfield, Andre Jackson and Chris Hill also had a double in the second game of the doubleheader. On the mound, Freshman Dash Albus picked up his first career win and combined with Fisher Roberts, Douglas Hendricks, Mason Brandenberger and David Stich to allow only 1 hit and 1 run throughout the game.
UP NEXT
Temple will play a single 9 inning game against Howard College on Friday and a doubleheader on Saturday in Temple, Texas.
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POST GAME QUOTES
Craig McMurtry, Head Coach Temple College Leopards Baseball
On today's doubleheader…
It is always good to pick up two wins on the road regardless of who you play. This group has a ton of talent, but we still have a lot of work to do to reach our full potential. We show signs of being able to do some good things, but just haven't been able to put it together on a consistent basis.
Bryan Williams Freshman Catcher
On today's doubleheader...
Game one for us wasn't how we normally play but were fortunate enough to pick up a win. Going into game 2 we had a lot to work on and needed to play to our potential to get back on track with another win in preparation for this weekend's series and as we move closer to conference play