SEWANEE, Tenn. –
Blake Pou posted three hits with two solo home runs and three RBIs and Sewanee scored six runs in fourth inning, including a two-run double by
Tyler Pinson, in a 10-1 victory over Covenant College in baseball action here Tuesday afternoon at Montgomery Field.
Pou belted solo homers in the second and fourth innings, starting the six-run fourth, and added an RBI single in the sixth.
Aidan Petrocco,
Charlie Teel and
Zach Fortman all collected two hits and scored a pair of runs.
Six Sewanee hurlers limited the Scots (12-13) to six hits, with
Henry Collins starting and working two scoreless innings before
Austin Graber tossed three frames, giving up a solo homer to Roby McClarnon but otherwise retiring the side. The six Tigers combined for 10 strikeouts and just three walks.
Adkin Finch (0-1) allowed four runs on three hits in 1.1 innings, suffering the loss.
Cody Brewer walked with one out in the second inning for Covenant and stole second. Elliott Eastin then singled to center, but Brewer was thrown out at the plate, with the relay from Jennewein to Petrocco to
Bill Gantt at the plate.
Pou's sixth home run of the year, a solo shot, put the Tigers in front in the bottom of the second, but McClarnon answered with his own solo homer in the third, knotting the game at one.
Petrocco was hit with one out in the bottom of the third and moved to second on Jennewein's chopper down the first base line. Teel walked and the runners moved up two bases with a pair of wild pitches by Finch for a 2-1 Sewanee edge.
Pou added his second solo shot, this one to dead centerfield, to leadoff the fourth, giving the Tigers a 3-1 advantage. His seventh homer of the year tied the Sewanee single-season record.
Jake Glover followed with a single with one out and took off for second with two outs, with
Owen Andress lining a double down the leftfield line, plating a run. After a pitching change, Petrocco singled to center and Andresss went to third before coming across on a wild pitch. Petrocco also scored later in the frame on another wild pitch, extending the advantage to 6-1.
Teel and Fortman singled with two outs and both runners scored on a double down the rightfield line by Pinson for an 8-1 lead.
In the sixth Zeke Gilbert singled and went to second on a wild pitch for the Scots. Benjamin Johnson grounded deep in the hole to short, but Fortman's throw to third was late, with Gilbert sliding in safely.
Jake Walling got a strikeout and a groundout to end the threat.
Teel doubled to start the bottom of the inning and Fortman followed with a single to left, putting runners on the corners.
Jude Wascom singled home a run and Pou did as well, extending the advantage to 10-1.
Sewanee does not play again until next Tuesday for a single game at Maryville College.
