Box Score NEWBERRY, SC - Senior right-handed pitcher Erik Sommerville
pitched six strong innings and sophomore left fielder Tyler Boyd
collected three hits to help third-ranked Francis Marion University
to a 5-4 non-conference win over Newberry College, Tuesday
afternoon (Feb. 23) in baseball action.
The Patriots improve to 9-2, while Newberry drops to 9-5. FMU
will play a home-and-away series with Benedict College this
weekend. The two teams will meet in Columbia on Saturday at 1
p.m. and in Florence on Sunday at 1 p.m.
Boyd, who went 0-for-4 on Sunday after opening the season with a
nine-game hitting streak, rebounded with a 3-for-5 effort that
included a run scored and a run batted in. Outfield mates
Graham Couch and Alex Lee both collected two hits apiece and each
drove in a run.
Sommerville improved to 3-0 as he allowed three runs on six
hits. He struck out five and walked only one. Junior
righty Patrick Mincey followed with two scoreless innings, and
senior Brandon Forshee earned his fifth save of 2010 despite
allowing one run in the ninth inning. He stranded two runners
on base by striking out Chris Love to end the game.
Boyd's RBI single to center field gave FMU a 1-0 lead in the top
of the first. Newberry tied the game on a solo home run by
Sanchez Gartman in the bottom of the frame. The Patriots took
a 3-1 advantage in the second inning when Couch singled home Jacob
Wallace and Tyler Cappelmann scored on an RBI ground out by Lee.
The margin increased to 4-1 on a sacrifice fly by Barrett
Kleinknecht in the fourth, and later to 5-1 following an RBI-double
by catcher Logan Bland in the fifth.
Newberry scored twice in the sixth to trim the lead to
5-3. Despite allowing three base runners in the seventh and
one more in the eighth, Mincey kept Newberry off the
scoreboard.
FMU junior first baseman Preston Shuey extended his hitting
streak to eight games with a seventh-inning single. The three
FMU pitchers combined to fan 10 Newberry batters, and the Patriots
defense did not commit an error.
Newberry starter Hunter Cox (0-1) was tagged with the loss.
#3 Francis Marion 5, Newberry 4 (Feb 23, 2010 at
Newberry, S.C.)
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Francis Marion...... 120 110 000 - 5 12
0 (9-2)
Newberry............ 100 002 001 -
4 10 2 (9-5)
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Pitchers: Francis Marion - Erik Sommerville; Patrick
Mincey(7); Brandon Forshee(9). Newberry -
Hunter Cox; Evan Brown(3); Quackenbush(4); Wayne Potts(6);
Dale Bennett(7).
Win-Erik Sommerville(3-0) Save-Brandon
Forshee(5) Loss-Hunter Cox(0-1) T-2:42
A-260
HR NEW - Sanchez Gartman (3).
Erik Sommerville
