FLORENCE
-- Sophomore Jordan West of Florence pitched
5 2/3 innings of relief and struckout 10
batters to lead the University of North
Alabama to an 8-6 win over Kentucky Wesleyan
in the second game of a double-header Sunday
at University Field. The Panthers rallied
from a two-run deficit in the seventh inning
to tie the opener and then scored a run in
the eighth inning for a 6-5 win. The split
gives UNA a 3-1 series win over Kentucky
Wesleyan and puts the Lions at 9-2 overall.
The Panthers fall to 1-6.
West, who was
0-1 as a freshman in 2007, got his first win
as a Lion by overpowering the Panther
hitters.
UNA led 4-1
after the first inning but a Panther rally
in the second tied the game and Lion starter
Brennen Auerbach was pulled for West. West
struckout the side in the third and sixth
innings and struckout 10 of the 22 batters
he faced. He allowed two runs on five hits
and didn't walk any batters in his five-plus
innings of work. UNA got its margin of
victory in the fourth inning when Cole
Mitchell reached on an error and Jeffery
Ritter hammered a pitch over a billboard in
leftfield for a two-run homer. UNA out-hit
the Panthers 9-7 in the game.
In the opener,
KWC got a run in the third but UNA answered
with three runs of its own in the bottom of
the inning. The Panthers tied the game at
3-3 in the fourth but UNA scored single runs
in the fourth and fifth innings for a 5-3
lead. UNA started Todd Bryan pitched 5 2/3
innings, allowing three runs on four hits.
Ryan Mitchell came on to record the final
out in the sixth and freshman Trey Mitchell
was brought on to close the game in the
seventh. After recording one out, Mitchell
gave up back-to-back singles. With two away,
KWC's Timmy Wimsatt blooped a single into
left to tie the game. The Panthers then got
a run in the eighth and Wesleyan's Nick
Crady came on in relief and pitched a
perfect ninth inning for the save.
Mitchell (0-1)
took the loss for UNA. Ritter and Trey
Pollard led UNA with two hits each in the
game.
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