FLORENCE, SC – Lander University scored in seven of nine innings to claim a 10-4 victory over Francis Marion University, Tuesday afternoon (Feb. 28) in non-conference baseball action.
 
Francis Marion (7-8) will host the University of Bridgeport on Wednesday at 6 p.m.
 
Five different players registered hits for the Patriots: center fielder Caleb Oakley, third baseman Charlie Bussey III, second baseman Tanner Wakefield, first baseman Tyler Reynolds, and freshman shortstop Peyton Starkey.  Bussey III, a freshman from Graniteville, S.C., extended his streak of safely reaching base to 13 games.
 
FMU senior right-hander Austin Moore (0-1) pitched the first four innings and surrendered three runs, only one of which was earned.
 
Lander (5-10) scored twice in the second and once each in the fourth and fifth innings to build a 4-0 advantage.
 
FMU got one back in the bottom of the fifth as singles by Bussey III and Wakefield put runners on the corners with no outs.  Reynolds grounded into a double play, but Bussey III came across with the Patriots' first run.
 
The Bearcats answered with four unanswered tallies to go 8-1. 
 
The Patriots plated one run in the seventh when senior right fielder Will Hardee reached on a throwing error and came home on a two-out flare single to center by Reynolds.
 
Francis Marion scored twice in the eighth and left the bases loaded as the Patriots employed seven pinch hitters in the frame. Oakley drilled an RBI-single through the left side and senior third baseman Mickey Skole walked to force in a run.
 
Southpaw Dawson Campbell (1-1), the second of six Lander pitchers, earned the win.

 
 
Lander University 10, Francis Marion Univ. 4 (Feb 28, 2023 at Florence, SC)
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Lander University... 020 111 311  - 10 13  1      (5-10)
Francis Marion Univ. 000 010 120  -  4  5  6      (7-8)
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Pitchers: Lander University - Bennett Sloper; Dawson Campbell(3); Luke  Johnson(7);
Chandler Moeller(8); Garrett Major(8); Tyler Bowen(9) and Will McClellan.
Francis Marion Univ. - Austin Moore; Josh Adams(5); Luke Allain(5); Cory Poulsen(6);
Jack Hegan(7); Toddie Stocks(8); Adam Creswell(9) and Peyton Britt; Isaac Schuck; Tucker Rabun.
Win-Dawson Campbell (1-1)  Loss-Austin Moore (0-1)  T-2:57  A-123
Weather: clear, 79, winds E @ 6 mph
Poulsen faced 3 batters in the 7th.