KENNESAW, Ga. — Catawba College took both games of a baseball series with ninth-ranked Kennesaw State, winning 5-3 and 6-5.
The wins push the Indians’ record to 18-8 overall.
In the first win, coach Jim Gantt got an impressive effort from freshman Brian Hatley. The former East Rowan star held the Owls to three hits over seven innings.
After falling behind 1-0, the Tribe struck for three in the sixth. Mike Robbins tied the score on a bases-loaded grounder and Blair Reynolds followed with a two-run single. O.J. Lemnnon had an RBI single.
Kennesaw scored a run in the eighth and threatened in the ninth but Chad Secrest doused the fire with a groundout and flyout with the tying run at second to preserve the win.
Catawba took 10 innings to take the second game.
Lennon led off the game with a triple and scored on Travis Goins’ groundout. But Kennesaw State eventually built a 5-1 advantage after five.
Then, came the rally. Goins had a sacrifice fly and Chad Hill scored on an error. Denis Love smacked a 2-out,. 2-run double in the seventh to narrow the margin to 5-4.
When Todd Smith’s grounder was errored, it brought home the tying run.
In the 10th, Hill was hit by a pitch but was picked off first. Goins was also hit but advanced to third on Israel Morrow’s double. Smith then hit a sacrifice fly to score Goins with the game winner.
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NOTES:Kennesaw State fell to 17-6. ... Hatley is 2-1 on the season. ... Secrest picked up his second save for Catawba. ... In the second game, Brad Esarey sat down the Owls 1-2-3 in the bottom of the 10th for his second save. ... Davie County’s Drew Ridenhour, another freshman, pitched 4 23 innings in the Game 2 allowing just three hits in his scoreless stint. ... Catawba plays a doubleheader at Wingate today, starting at noon. The same two teams go at it Sunday in a single game, beginning at 1 p.m. ... The Tribe is home all of next week. It plays Mount Olive Wednesday (1 p.m. doubleheader), Limestone Thursday (5 p.m.) and faces South Atlantic foe Presbyterian in a Saturday doubleheader (noon start) and a Sunday game at 1 p.m.
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