AUSTIN, Texas the Temple College baseball team scored early and never looked back Monday afternoon as the Leopards swept the doubleheader over St. Edward's University by a score of 4-2 and 12-4.
These two wins improve Temple to 10-2 on the season.
Game One Recap
The offense got things started after Joseph Redfield drove the first pitch of the game to right for a double and was brought in by a single from Clark Henry.
Freshman LHP Dawson Tourney led the Leopards to victory on the mound as he surrendered zero runs on two hits over three innings, striking out two and walking one. Brandon Taylor and Mason Brandenberger came in relief to keep the game close before handing the ball off to Mason Bryant as he picked up his second save of the season throwing 1.2 innings, striking out two while only allowing one hit.
Travis Chestnut picked up his first home run of the season in the 6th inning.
The Leopard offense was led by Travis Chestnut, Clark Henry and Joseph Redfield as they each racked up multiple hits. Joseph Redfield had two doubles and scored 3 of Temple's 4 runs
Game Two Recap
In the second game of today's doubleheader, Zane Spinn showed timely hitting as he drove in 5 runs on three hits to lead the team to a 12-4 victory.
The Leopards scored in 5 of the 7 innings as 8 different batters picked up hits throughout the game.
Joseph Redfield and Zane Spinn were the only ones that managed to have an extra base hit and Freshman infielder Raithen Malone picked up two hits of his own and scored twice.
Freshman RHP Hagen Rose started things out on the mound continuing the success of his 2022 campaign. Rose threw 3.2 innings allowing no hits, struck out three and walked only one. Douglas Hendricks, Cole Van Poppel and David Stich all came in relief combining for four strikeouts and only allowed three hits.
UP NEXT
Temple will play against Navarro College Monday February 28th in Corsicana, Texas.
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POST GAME QUOTES
Craig McMurtry, Head Coach Temple College Leopards Baseball
On today's doubleheader…
Being able to pick up two wins on the road is always nice. I thought the hitters did a good job adjusting their approaches from Game 1 to Game 2 producing a bunch of runs. On the mound we were able to run a couple of different guys out there which is always nice when each guy does their job. It was a good day to build off of as we head towards conference play.
Joseph Redfield Sophomore Outfielder
On today's doubleheader...
Defensively we played very well which helped out more than anything over the course of the two games. Our bats came through at the right times when we needed some runs and our pitchers continued keeping us in ball games by keeping the other team off the bases. Overall I thought we had a productive day and still have room to grow.