Friday, April 27th, 2007

Baseball Team Falls To Host Maryville In GSAC Tournament Opener

The Piedmont College baseball team dropped the first game of the 2007 Great South Athletic Conference Tournament to host Maryville College this evening by the score of 7-5. The Lions held a 5-3 lead into the eighth but the Scots connected on a pair of homeruns plating four runs and sealing the victory.

PC jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. Maryville answered with an unearned run in the third and then single runs in both the fifth and sixth innings giving them a slim 3-2 led. The Lions responded with three runs in the sixth but allowed four unanswered runs which proved to be the game-winners in the eighth.

Leading the offense for Piedmont was Travis Hunt, Cole Spedale, and Evan Nissley who notched a pair of hits respectively. Luke Dombrowsky chipped in going 1-4 with a pair of RBI's while Zac Stein added a 1-2 night with an RBI.

The loss drops PC to 19-22 overall. The Lions will return to action again tomorrow, April 28th as they take on LaGrange College at 12:00 in the tournament's first elimination game.