March 12, 2006

Boxscore

HARTSVILLE, SC—Junior Ritchie Priest (Elizabethtown, NC) pounded out a team-high three hits and drove in two runs but host Coker College picked up their first Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference victory of the season with an 8-5 win over visiting St. Andrews on Sunday afternoon.

With the win the Cobras snap their ten game CVAC losing streak and improved to 1-10 in the CVAC, and 10-14-1 overall. The Knights dropped to 13-12 overall and 5-7 in the league.

Coker got things going early, scoring two runs in the second off an RBI single from Willie LoVerde and a sacrifice from Brantley Bell. St. Andrews answered with a run in the top of the third from a sophmore Michael Eastwood (Grantsboro, NC) RBI single, but Coker answered right back with three runs of their own in the bottom half of the inning.

The Knights scored two more in the fourth on a two-run single by Priest, before Coker would add a run in the fifth and two more in the sixth, to make it an 8-3 ball game.

St. Andrews looked to be making a comeback in the seven when sophomore Andrew Hoffner (Ellicott City, MD) led off the inning with a home run, and again in the ninth as they scored their final run on a Eastwood single that plated Priest. However, each time Coker’s starting pitcher Brad Boob was able to work his way out of the jam.

Boob (2-3) earned the win scattering 10 hits over nine innings, while allowing five runs and striking out six.

St. Andrews’ senior Brad Smith (Riegelwood, NC) took the loss, allowing seven runs (five earned) on 11 hits in five innings pitched. Senior reliever Scott Adams (Vernon Hill, VA) had three strikeouts in three innings.

Leading the Coker Offense was Nic Fletcher, going 3-for-4 with a double, two RBIs and a run scored and Steven Dill who was also 3-for-4 with a double, and a run scored. Both Brooks Urquhart and Brian Johanson recorded doubles on the day as well.

Hoffner’s solo blast was his second home run of the year.

St. Andrews travels to Salisbury, NC, on Wednesday for a non-conference tilt against NCWBA nationally ranked No. 10 Catawba College.

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