February 24, 2007

Game 1 Boxscore
Game 2 Boxscore

DUE WEST, S.C.—The Erskine College baseball team completed the three-game Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference series sweep of visiting St. Andrews Presbyterian College with a pair of wins on Saturday, 4-0 & 8-5, at Grier Field.

The Flying Fleet improved to 11-5 on the season and 4-2 in the CVAC after the weekend series while the Knights dropped to 7-7 overall and start the conference season 0-3.

Erskine pitchers Huitt Scarborough and Russell Reid combined for the first-game shutout. Scarborough earned the win allowing five hits and one walk in six innings while striking out three. Reid earned the save after pitching three effective innings of relief including allowing just three hits while fanning four.

St. Andrews had eight hits in the opener but left six runners on base while also hitting into two double plays.

Sophomore Ivan Rodriguez (New York, N.Y.) and junior Michael Eastwood (Grantsboro, N.C.) each collected two hits apiece for the Knights. Junior starter B.J. Horne (Hamlet, N.C.) took the loss for SAPC allowing four runs (three earned) on six hits and one walk while striking out four batters in 7 1/3 innings.

The Fleet scored single runs in the first, fourth, fifth, and eighth. Chas Anthony highlighted the Erskine scoring with a solo home run in the fifth.

EC jumped out to a four run lead in the nightcap with a pair of runs in the first two innings. Anthony led off the game with his second homer of the day.

The Knights battled back and took a 5-4 lead with five runs in the third. SAPC scored all five runs in the rally on five run-producing singles. Rodriguez, freshman Charles Weber (Concord, N.C.), Eastwood, senior Cliff Allred (Franklinville, N.C.), and senior Adam Stemple (Holly Springs, Ga.) all had RBI base hits.

Anthony tied the game back up at five apiece with a RBI-single in the fourth and Erskine regained the lead for good with a three-run fifth.

Reliever Jake Williams earned the win for the Fleet while freshman Jordan Cudney (Charlotte, N.C.) took the loss for St. Andrews.

Weber was the only Knights with two hits in the finale while Allred ripped the only extra-base hit with a double in the first game.

St. Andrews will host non-conference and T-28 nationally ranked Francis Marion University on Wednesday at 3:00 p.m.