Sunday, March 19th, 2006

Piedmont Drops Series To Methodist With 15-7 Loss

In a slugfest that featured 32 combined hits the Piedmont College baseball team could not overcome Methodist College and fell this afternoon 15-7 in Fayetteville, NC. PC tallied 15 hits but committed three errors and allowed runs in all but one inning. The loss marks the third straight for the Lions.

The Lions allowed single runs in the first two innings but answered in the third to knot the game at two runs apiece. In the next three innings the Lions allowed five runs and left the bases loaded with no outs in consecutive innings. Despite four runs in the final five innings, PC could not stop the Monarchs offense who scored four insurance runs in the seveth.

Leading the offense for the Lions was Andy House who went 3-3 with two RBI's. Blake Albertson, Mike Santowski and Evan Nissley went 2-4 and Travis Hunt went 3-6 with two runs scored and Walker Searcy, Justin Oates and Cole Spedale also recorded hits.

The defeat moves Piedmont to 11-8 overall. The Lions will return home on Tuesday, March 21st as they play host to Oglethorpe Unviersity with game-time set for 7:00.