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Box Score 2 by Cory Guinn
WILSON, N.C. – The Barton College baseball team continued its early-season offensive onslaught by hitting six total home runs and taking two games from visiting Glenville State College in a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon at Nixon Field. BC won game one by a score of 8-2 before completing the day with a 10-7 win in game two.
The Bulldogs (7-0) have now slugged 15 home runs and scored 86 total runs over the team's first seven games. Glenville State fell to 0-5 on the season after the two-game sweep.
Game one: Barton 8, Glenville State 2 (Seven inn.)
Senior Andrew Webster got the scoring started for Barton early in the first game of the day, sending a two-run home run high and deep over the left field fence to put BC ahead 2-0 after the first inning of play.
Glenville State rallied for two runs of its own on two hits in the top of the second before sophomore Troy Maslowski's first career home run, a solo shot to center, put Barton back on top 3-2 in the bottom of the fourth inning.
With two out in the bottom of the fifth, senior Calvin Hawke hit his second long ball of the season to left field, scoring two runs for the Bulldogs. Fellow senior Shawn Montren scored on a throwing error and junior Hunter Pearre drove in two runs with an RBI single in the sixth inning as Barton held on for a six-run victory.
Junior Trent Fennell (2-0) earned the win after pitching his second career complete game on the mound. The right-hander allowed just two runs on six hits while striking out five and walking one batter over 96 total pitches.
Pearre was 3-for-4 at the plate in game one with a double, two RBI and two runs scored, while Hawke, Maslowski, Montren and Webster each recorded two hits.
Game two: Barton 10, Glenville State 7 (Seven inn.)
The second game of the afternoon provided Barton with its first real test of the season as the Pioneers scored six runs over the first two innings of play. The six runs came on just four hits as a costly BC fielding error and two passed balls aided in the Glenville State scoring.
Sophomore Gatlin Pate singled to begin the bottom of the second inning and quickly came around to score as senior Jacob Willis hit a two-run home run off the batters eye in center field to but Barton on the scoreboard.
Willis brought Barton within two runs of the Glenville State lead with his second home run of the game, another two-run blast, with one out in the bottom of the fourth inning. Sophomore Ricks Dearing drove in a run of his own with an RBI single before scoring on a throwing error just one batter later to tie the score at 6-all.
Barton had runners on the corners with two out following a Pearre single before Webster stepped to the plate. The Pittsboro, N.C. resident then sent a pitch to left field for his second long ball of the day and sixth of the season, scoring three runs and putting the Bulldogs ahead 9-6.
Dearing scored once more on a Pioneer wild pitch in the sixth inning, while Glenville State scored its final run on a Barton throwing error in the seventh to make the final tally 10-7 in favor of BC.
Senior Kerry Walker (3-0) collected his third win in as many games after allowing six runs (three earned) on six hits with seven strikeouts. Sophomore left-hander Ryan Pifer allowed one unearned run on one hit in the final inning of relief.
Willis led the Bulldogs on offense in game two, finishing 2-for-3 with two home runs, two runs scored and four RBI. Webster was 1-for-3 with a home run and three RBI, while Dearing also finished 2-for-3 with an RBI and two runs scored.
Barton and Glenville State complete the four-game weekend series tomorrow with a doubleheader beginning at Noon in Wilson.
