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Box Score 2 SEWANEE, Tenn. (April 13, 2013) – The Sewanee baseball team earned its first two Southern Athletic Association (SAA) victories of the season Saturday, as the Tigers swept a pair of games against rival Oglethorpe at Montgomery Field.
Trailing Oglethorpe 4-2 after six innings, the Tigers scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh and two more in the eighth to capture the 6-4 come-from-behind win in the first game of the doubleheader.
Charles Warren was credited with the win on the mound in relief of starter Marshall Ussery. Warren allowed only two hits and one run in four full innings of work to pick up his third win of the season.
Jack Whaley started the comeback with a one-out single in the bottom of the seventh inning. Grant Goodson followed with a single putting runners at first and third. After James Snover drew a walk loading the bases, Whaley came across the plate when Ben Clune grounded into a fielder's choice. Goodson stole home to tie the score at 4-4.
The Tiger bats continued hot in the bottom of the eighth when Michael Walker led off the inning with a single. Allen Thigpen followed Walker's hit with a double putting runners at second and third. Jack Rogers' sacrifice fly to left scored Walker to give Sewanee its first lead of the game. Whaley gave Sewanee a 6-4 lead on a single scoring Jacob Walker, who was pinch running for Thigpen.
Oglethorpe mounted a threat in the top of the ninth inning advancing runners to second and third with two outs, but Warren shut the door on the possible rally to preserve the 6-4 win for the Tigers.
Thigpen paced Sewanee's 10-hit attack with three hits in four trips to the plate. Walker and Whaley each had two hits, while Rogers picked up three RBI.
The Tigers plated two runs in the bottom of the first inning and never looked back in route to the 7-2 win in game two and the doubleheader sweep of the Stormy Petrels.
Senior starter Jacob Simpson scattered five hits and allowed only two runs for the complete game victory in the scheduled seven-inning game.
Blake Williams, Clune, Snover, Thigpen, and Rogers had one hit each for the Tigers. Snover's hit was solo homerun, his first of the season, in the third inning.
With the doubleheader sweep the Tigers up their record to 10-19 overall and 2-14 in SAA play. Additionally, Sewanee has won four straight games.
Sewanee and Oglethorpe will wrap up their three-game conference series tomorrow with a single game scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m.
