Balanced Offense Leads Owls Past Spartans

Saturday, April 8

Kennesaw, Ga. (ASUN.TV)

2 pm

University of South Carolina Upstate Athletics

14-19, 1-4

Kennesaw State

14-17, 3-2

USC Upstate

Kennesaw State

4/8/2017 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

Box Score (.pdf)

Kennesaw, Ga. – The Kennesaw State Owls scored three runs in the third and fifth innings as they defeated USC Upstate 8-5 on Saturday afternoon at Stillwell Stadium.

Kennesaw State improves to 14-17 overall and 3-2 in ASUN Conference play while Upstate drops to 14-19 and 1-4.

Scoring Breakdown

Bottom 1^st – Grant Williams led off the game with a single and scored on a Chris Erwin single.
Top 3^rd – Upstate tied the game on a Charlie Carpenter single. J.J. Shimko gave the Spartans a 2-1 lead with a single before Carpenter scored on a wild pitch for a 3-1 Upstate advantage.
Bottom 3^rd – Kennesaw State answered with three runs in the inning for a 4-3 lead.
Bottom 5^th – The Owls scored runs on an Erwin single, a groundout and a Garrett Hodges double for a 7-3 lead.
Top 7^th – Brett Hawkins hit a two-run double that scored Russell Schwertfeger and Hunter Gilbert to make the score 7-5.
Bottom 8^th – Jeremy Howell's solo home run gave the Owls an 8-5 lead.

Notables

Hawkins went 2-for-4 with a single, double and two RBI.
Schwertfeger finished 2-for-5 with two singles and two runs scored.
Carpenter, Shimko, Devon Ortiz and Pat Raiff each had a hit.
The Owls had five players finish with two hits each.
Erwin drove in a game-high three runs.
AJ Moore (3-3) earned the win, allowing three runs on five hits with three walks and six strikeouts in 6.0 innings.
Gabe Friese (1) picked up the save, allowing two hits with one strikeout in 2.1 innings.
Kevin Hickey (2-4) took the loss as he gave up seven runs on 10 hits in 4.2 innings.

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