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Lander LUBSB25 21-10
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Winner Mars Hill MHUBSB 10-22
Lander LUBSB25
21-10
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Final
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Mars Hill MHUBSB
10-22
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Lander LUBSB25 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 5 9 0
Mars Hill MHUBSB 0 3 0 0 1 1 0 1 X 6 10 2

W: Seth Coxie (2-0) L: Sanchez, Joshua (1-1)

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Hailey Franklin

Game Recap: Baseball | | Turner Kirby - Director of Athletic Communications

Eighth-Inning Homer Sinks Lander in 6-5 Loss to Mars Hill

MARS HILL, N.C. — The Lander baseball team went back and forth with the Mars Hill Lions, but it was the Lions who delivered the final blow with a solo home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to secure a 6-5 win in a non-conference game on Tuesday afternoon at Henderson Field.

This marked the fourth matchup between the two teams this season and the first victory for Mars Hill, as Lander swept the previous three-game series.

Grant Sherrod (Sumner, Wash.) continued his scorching pace, launching his team-leading ninth home run of the season over the center field fence in the first inning. The two-run shot gave Lander (21-10) an early lead, scoring Taichi Nakao (Auckland, New Zealand), who walked for the 32nd time this season, tying him for the most in the country.

The Lions (10-22) responded in the bottom of the third with a three-run homer to take a 3-2 lead.

Nakao's RBI double in the fifth evened the score, and an Evan Wickeri (Middleburg, Fla.) RBI single pushed Lander back ahead 4-3. However, Mars Hill regained the advantage with runs in the fifth and sixth innings to make it 5-4 in favor of the hosts.

Garrett Chun (Jacksonville, Fla.) brought home the tying run on a sacrifice fly in the seventh, knotting the score at 5-5 with two innings to play.

Joshua Sanchez (Pembroke Pines, Fla.) took the mound in relief of Jake Larson (Ponte Vedra, Fla.), who pitched seven innings, allowing five runs and striking out four. Sanchez quickly recorded two strikeouts in the eighth, but the Lions' third batter of the inning launched a solo homer over the left field fence to reclaim the lead. Lander went down in order in the ninth, sealing the victory for Mars Hill.

Lander hits the road again this weekend, making the short trip down Highway 25 to face the USC Aiken Pacers in a three-game Peach Belt Conference series. The series begins Friday (March 28) at 5 p.m., followed by Game 2 on Saturday at 4 p.m. and the finale on Sunday at 2 p.m.
 
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Scoring Summary

Score By Innings
Play LUBSB25 MHUBSB
LUBSB25 TOP 1st G. Sherrod homered to center field, 2 RBI; T. Nakao scored. 2 0
MHUBSB BOT 2nd Zach Cimino homered down the rf line, 3 RBI; Carter Potts scored; J. Jones scored. 2 3
LUBSB25 TOP 5th T. Nakao doubled to right field, RBI; J. Hoshour scored. 3 3
LUBSB25 TOP 5th E. Wickeri singled to center field, advanced to second on a fielding error by cf, RBI; T. Nakao advanced to third, scored on a fielding error by cf, unearned. 4 3
MHUBSB BOT 5th Elec Yount grounded out to 3b, RBI; Max LaLime scored. 4 4
MHUBSB BOT 6th J. Jones singled up the middle, RBI; C. Matson scored. 4 5
LUBSB25 TOP 7th G. Chun flied out to rf, SF, RBI; W. McClellan advanced to third; E. Wickeri scored. 5 5
MHUBSB BOT 8th T. Bumgarner homered to left field, RBI. 5 6

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