Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
The Rhodes College baseball team split today's double header with #14 Marietta College. Rhodes lost the first game 3-0, before defeating the Pioneers 4-3 in 10 innings in the second game. Junior Chris Conkell drove in the winning run in the bottom of the 10th on a sacrifice fly to right field scoring junior Kyle Peterson. Sophomore Austin Carden picked up the loss for the Lynx in the first game and freshman John White got his first collegiate victory in the second game. Rhodes is now 9-3 on the year.
Carden went 6 innings in the first game allowing 4 hits, 2 runs, both of which were earned, walked 1 and struck out 6. Carden is now 2-2 on the year. Freshman Jackson Baker worked the seventh inning, allowing 1 hit, 1 unearned run, and struck out 1. Junior 1B Brogan Jayne was 1-3 and senior 2B Andy Boucher was 1-2.
In the second game of the day, junior Taylor Babich worked the first five innings allowing 9 hits, 3 earned runs, walked 1, and struck out 2. Junior Hunter Chandler relieved Babich in the sixth and allowed 1 hit, 1 walk, and struck out 2 over the next 3 innings. Freshman John White threw the 9th and 10th and did not allow a runner to reach base. In doing so, White collected his first collegiate victory and is now 1-0 on the year.
The Lynx offense was led by junior 1B Brogan Jayne who was 2-5 on the day. Junior RF Matt Gilbert was 2-4 with a run scored. Senior 2B Andy Boucher was 1-1 with a double. Freshman SS Lynden Pindling was 2-2 on the day. Junior C Chris Conkell was 0-2, but drove in the winning run on a sacrifice fly to right field in the bottom of the 10th.
Rhodes will return to action tomorrow afternoon at 1:00 against Blackburn College.