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Box Score 2 DANVILLE, Ky. (April 20, 2013) – A great pitching performance by Marshall Ussery helped the Sewanee baseball team split a doubleheader at Southern Athletic Association (SAA) rival Centre, Saturday.
Ussery scattered four hits and allowed only one run to pick up the victory and Charles Warren worked three innings of scoreless relief to earn the save as the Tigers outlasted the Colonels 3-1 in the first game of the doubleheader.
A two-out, two-run double by Ben Clune got Sewanee on the scoreboard in the top of the second inning. In the fourth inning The Tigers increased their lead to 3-0 on an RBI-double by Jack Rogers.
Centre's lone run came in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Clune, Rogers, Blake Williams, Nate Barnett, and Jack Whaley led Sewanee's eleven-hit attack with two hits each.
The nightcap of the doubleheader turned out to be an old-fashioned pitchers' duel. The scheduled seven-inning game was scoreless after regulation, but the Colonels were able to push across a run in the bottom of the eighth inning to edge the Tigers 1-0.
Jacob Simpson was the hard-luck loser for the Tigers. Simpson went the distance allowing one run on six hits.
Clune, Williams and Rogers were responsible for the Tigers' only hits in the game.
With the split of the doubleheader, the Tigers now stand at 13-21 overall and 3-16 in SAA play.
Sewanee and Centre will wrap up their three-game conference series tomorrow with a single game scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. (EST).
