Box Score FLORENCE, SC – Sophomore first baseman Charlie Bussey III tallied his nineteenth mutli-hit game with three hits and three runs driven in during a 12-8 victory over Augusta University on Tuesday (Mar. 25) evening.
Francis Marion, now 23-9 and winners of four straight, will travel to Shorter University on Friday (Mar. 28) to resume Conference Carolinas league play. The squads will play a single game on Friday at noon and a doubleheader on Saturday at noon.
Senior designated hitter
Noah Stout had one hit and two of the team's seven RBIs, while senior left fielder
Caleb Oakley, senior right fielder
Austin Bunn, senior second baseman
Owen Taylor, senior center fielder
Will Dorrell, and junior third baseman
Jimmy Koza all had one hit respectively.
Senior right-handed pitcher
Daemon Woodruff (1-2) was awarded his first win after one inning pitched, a perfect 1-2-3 sixth inning with two strikeouts. Freshman left-handed hurler
Jackson Madden made his first collegiate start as a Patriot, pitching two innings and allowing three hits with three strikeouts.
Samuel Choate (0-1) was tagged with the loss after 1.1 innings of work, while allowing two hits and four runs.
Mike Morrison led Augusta (8-22) with two runs scored, two hits, and two RBIs.
Bussey III also successfully extended his hitting streak to 10 games with a base hit in the first frame. Two back-to-back walks for the Patriots loaded the bases and the Bussey III reached home on a wild pitch for a 1-0 lead.
Although Augusta knotted the score at 1-1 in the top of the second, Francis Marion widened the margin to 6-1 with five runs in the second inning. That outburst included an RBI-triple by Oakley, a run-scoring single by Bussey III, and a two-run single by Stout.
The Jaguars were able to cut the five-run gap in half at 6-3 as Roland Chance and Matthew Thigpen scored.
Francis Marion then put the Jaguars back in a five-run deficit in the bottom of the third. Junior catcher
Dariel Villaran Goundis led off with a walk, stole second, and advanced to third as Koza doubled into the gap in right field. A walk to Oakley loaded the bases yet again, and Bussey III singled to score both Koza and Villaran Goundis for an 8-3 advantage.
A home run by Nolan Turner made it a three-run game as the Jaguars scored twice to trail 8-5. The Patriots answered with an insurance run in the bottom of the fourth to lead 9-5 before both teams went scoreless until the bottom of the seventh.
Dorrell led off the top of the seventh with a double to pose a threat early in the frame. With two outs against the Patriots, Dorrell stole third base and was able to cross home plate on a throwing error by Augusta's catcher to widen the margin to 10-5.
Despite the Jaguars fighting back within three runs, 10-7, in the top of the eighth, the Patriots posted an additional two runs in the lower half of the eighth for a 12-7 lead that proved insurmountable.
Both Bussey III and Dorrell extended their steaks of safely reaching base to 22 games.
Francis Marion Univ. 12, Augusta University 8 (Mar 25, 2025 at Florence, SC)
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Augusta University.. 012 200 021 - 8 11 3 (8-22)
Francis Marion Univ. 152 100 12X - 12 9 1 (23-9)
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Pitchers: Augusta University - Ty Cobb; Samuel Choate(1); Brandon Byler(2); Blythe Keisler(3);
Riley Akins(4); Landon Skeen(5); Landon Griswell(7) and Ryan Patrick. Francis Marion Univ. -
Jackson Madden;
Braxton Elms IV(3);
Danny Leo(5);
Daemon Woodruff(6);
Clayton Stewart(7);
Mike Monduy(8);
Josh Adams(9) and D. Villaran Goundis.
Win-
Daemon Woodruff(1-2) Loss-Samuel Choate(0-1) T-3:14 A-112
HR JAGUAR~2 - Nolan Turner (6).
Weather: Sunny, 77, winds 13 mph SW
Madden faced 4 batters in the 3rd.
Brandon Byle faced 1 batter in the 3rd.
