Covenant College Athletics recently issued the following announcement.
The Covenant baseball team snapped a three-game losing streak with a 4-3 victory over Sewanee on a blustery Tuesday afternoon atop Lookout Mountain.
It was the fourth straight win for Covenant (8-10) over Sewanee (2-18) in the all-time series.
The contest remained scoreless until the fifth inning, largely in part to Covenant's starting pitcher Austin Clark. The sophomore faced just eight batters through his two innings pitched, allowing only one hit and one walk.
But in the top of the fifth, a couple of wild pitches and back-to-back hits for the Tigers allowed them to bring across two runs and grab a 2-0 lead. However, in their half of the inning, the Scots would quickly tie it back up thanks to two hits and two Sewanee errors.
During the fifth-inning rally, Andrew Brock and Ken Burke both singled and were brought around by defensive errors to make it a 2-2 ballgame.
After Sewanee was able to tack on another run in the top of the seventh (3-2), Covenant once again immediately answered with two more runs of their own, giving them a 4-3 lead.
An RBI triple from Kenny Mills helped tie it up at 3-3 before he was brought home on Zeke Gilbert's go-ahead RBI single that gave Covenant its first lead of the day at 4-3.
Sewanee looked to tie the game in the top of the eighth, but Scots nailed the would-be tying run at the plate. Joseph Ridenour tracked down Wade Sansone's double to right field and hit cut-off man Trevor Grapenthin, who threw a strike to home plate where Josh Harvey applied the tag on the Sewanee runner to keep the Scots in the lead.
Mills threw the final two innings in relief and struck out two as he picked up his first save of the season.
Gilbert was 1-of-4 with the game-winning RBI, while Brock was 2-for-4 with two runs scored. Mills went 2-for-4 with an RBI as the Scots produced eight hits. Ridenour and Chris Savage also had a hit apiece.
After Clark's stellar performance, Judah O'Neal pitched four innings of relief followed by an inning pitched by Houghston Schaefer (1-0), who picked up his first career win.
Sansone and Luke Short both went 2-for-3 for the Tigers. Marshall Coley started on the mound, pitching two innings and striking out one. Benny Ennis (0-1) received the loss after 1.2 innings of relief.
UP NEXT
Covenant will host No. 6 LaGrange for the first of a three-game USA South series starting on Friday. First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m.
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