Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Baseball Team Picks Up First Victory Of The Season Over Nationally-Ranked NC Wesleyan

After dropping the first four games of the season the Piedmont College baseball team defeated visiting North Carolina Wesleyan College this afternoon 5-4 at Loudermilk Field. The visiting Battling Bishops, currently ranked 7th nationally in NCAA Division-III, moutned an impressive comeback in the ninth to tie the game at 4-4 but a one-out game-winning RBI single from Stan Brosko sealed the victory for the Lions.

Tom Dimitroff took the tough luck no-decision going eight innings allowing only one earned run while striking out three. B.J. Hampton picjed-up the victory pitching the ninth inning allowing zero earned runs.

The teams traded single runs in the first inning and Piedmont notched a pair of runs in the seventh and a single run in the eighth. NC Wesleyan rallied in the top of the ninth with three runs but the go ahead run was cut down at the plate on Jared Moon's second ninth inning assist of the season.

After a strikeout to start the bottom of the ninth Evan Nissley worked a full count walk and advanced to second on a Matt Devito single. Stan Brosko then hit an 0-1 fastball to rightfield for the game-winning RBI.

The victory moves PC to 1-4 overall. The Lions will return to action again tomorrow, February 18th as they host Ferrum College in a doubleheader starting at 1:00.