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Box Score 2 FLORENCE, SC – Senior right-hander Joe Wagstaff tossed a three-hitter and Preston Shuey and Buddy Sosnoskie combined for four hits as 15th-ranked Francis Marion University beat King College 5-1 in the second game on Sunday afternoon (Feb. 6) to enable the Patriots to split the season-opening college baseball doubleheader. King took advantage of five FMU errors in the opening contest to collect an 8-3 victory.
FMU (1-1) will play host to Newberry College on Tuesday at 3 p.m.
In the second game, Wagstaff (1-0) needed only 68 pitches, 46 of which were strikes, to complete the seven-inning contest. He struck out four, walked only one, and allowed only a first-inning run.
Shuey and Sosnoskie collected two hits apiece in game two, including RBI-doubles in a two-run Patriot fourth-inning. King grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first frame on an RBI groundout by C.J. Stabler. FMU tied the score when Chris Honeycutt scored on a wild pitch in the second. Honeycutt put the Patriots up 2-1 in the third inning with a sacrifice fly and later in the frame Brooks Arnette upped the margin to 3-1 with a bases-loaded walk.
King righty Wesley Houser (0-1) took the loss.
In the opener, King right-hander Cory Rhodes (1-0) limited the Patriots to two hits in eight scoreless innings. FMU scored its three runs off reliever Daniel Glenn in the bottom of the ninth. Sosnoskie laced a run-scoring triple to right-center and then scored on an RBI groundout by Shuey. Freshman third baseman Michael Wilson drove in the final run with an RBI single up-the-middle.
The Tornado scored all their runs in the first five frames off FMU sophomore righty Don Sandifer (0-1), although only one of the runs was earned. FMU junior Sebie Kirkland tossed four scoreless innings of two-hit ball in relief.
King first baseman Steven Mueller was 2-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBIs. Right fielder Bryant Walker delivered a two-run double in King's four-run third inning.
FMU right fielder Tyler Boyd had a pair of hits in game one.
King College 8, #15 Francis Marion Univ. 3 (Feb 06, 2011 at Florence, SC) (Game 1)
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King College........ 104 210 000 - 8 8 2 (1-0)
Francis Marion Univ. 000 000 003 - 3 5 5 (0-1)
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Pitchers: King College – Cory Rhodes; Daniel Glenn (9) and Freeman, Doug.
Francis Marion Univ. - Don Sandifer; Sebie Kirkland (6) and Jeff Gaston; Brian Paulhus.
Win-Cory Rhodes (1-0) Loss-Don Sandifer (0-1) T-2:18 A-183
Weather: Clear, Sunny, 55 degrees
#15 Francis Marion Univ. 5, King College 1 (Feb 06, 2011 at Florence, SC) (Game 2)
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King College........ 100 000 0 - 1 3 0 (1-1)
Francis Marion Univ. 012 200 X - 5 9 0 (1-1)
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Pitchers: King College – Alex Martin; Wesley Houser (3); David Pritchard (4); Nick Melcher (4); Dustin Pennell (5) and Brad Blanton. Francis Marion Univ. - Joe Wagstaff and Zac Livingston.
Win-Joe Wagstaff (1-0) Loss-Wesley Houser (0-1) T-1:59
Weather: Clear, Sunny, 60 degrees
D. Pritchard faced 1 batter in the 4th.
Joe Wagstaff
