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ATLANTA, Ga. 3/22/11 – The Sewanee Tigers and the Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels opened the 2011 SCAC baseball campaign tonight with a doubleheader played in Atlanta, Georgia. The host Petrels were able to come out on top in both ends of the doubleheader in a pair of hard-fought games by scores of 7-6 and 4-2.
In the first game of the doubleheader, Sewanee's comeback effort fell a run short when the Tigers dropped a 7-6 decision to the Petrels.
Trailing 7-3 after four innings in the seven-inning opener, the Tigers scored twice in the fifth inning and once in the sixth to trim Oglethorpe's lead to one run. Sewanee stranded the tying and go-ahead runs on base in the top of the seventh inning.
Alan Komorowski (Rochester, N.Y., Aquinas Institute) led the Tigers at the plate with a perfect 3-for-3 effort, including a lead-off homerun in the top of the first inning, a double and two RBI. Joe Reilly (Milton, Ga., Mt. Pisgah) and Chris Mauro (Washington, D.C., St. Alban's) had two hits each. Sewanee outhit the Petrels 11-4.
Lee Schurlknight (Darlington, S.C., Byrnes Academy) was charged with the loss working 3.2 innings allowing seven runs, all earned, on four hits.
In the nightcap of the SCAC doubleheader, Oglethorpe was again able to hang on in the late innings to capture the 4-2 victory.
After falling behind 3-0, the Tigers fought back with single runs in the seventh and eighth innings to cut the Petrels' lead to 3-2. Oglethorpe pushed a big insurance run across in the bottom of the eighth for the final two-run margin.
Jacob Simpson (Franklin, Tenn., Battle Ground Academy) pitched the complete game for the Tigers and was charged with the loss. Simpson gave up four earned runs on ten hits.
Komorowski, Taylor Irwin (Brentwood, Tenn., Battle Ground Academy), Franklin Pogue (Nashville, Tenn., Father Ryan), Jack Rogers (Atlanta, Ga., Lovett), Wilson Nealy (Nashville, Tenn., Montgomery Bell Academy) and Blake Williams (Metter, Ga., Metter) each had one single each for the Tigers. Komorwoski and Pogue each picked up one RBI.
Sewanee is now 0-2 in SCAC play and 7-11 overall.
The Tigers will return to action this weekend when they host the DePauw Tigers in a three-game SCAC series beginning with a doubleheader scheduled for Saturday beginning at noon.
