Rhoades Totals Three Hits as Red Raider Baseball Falls 5-2 at Anderson (S.C.)
Feb. 24, 2008
ANDERSON, S.C. - For the second-straight
day, Anderson University (S.C.) came from behind to take a win away from
the Shippensburg baseball team, scoring two runs in the bottom of the seventh
en route to a 5-2 victory in the final game of a three-game series Sunday
afternoon at Anderson Memorial Stadium.
Junior Kyle Rhoades (Brodheadsville/Pleasant Valley) went 3-for-4 to lead
the Red Raiders (1-6) offensively while senior Justin Garber (Elizabethtown/Elizabethtown) was 2-for-4.
Trailing 1-0 in the top of fourth, Shippensburg freshman Kevin Miller
(Kenvil, N.J./Roxbury) led off the inning with a triple before junior Kasey Kuhns
(Three Springs/Southern Huntingdon) followed with an RBI-single to tie the
game at 1-1.
The Red Raiders added an unearned run in the top of the fifth before the
Trojans (5-13) scored two runs on three hits in the seventh to take a 3-2
lead.
Anderson added two insurance runs in the eighth on a double down the
right field line by Trent Still scored pinch-runner Nick Easterlin. Josh
Grubbs pinch ran for Still and scored on Derek Hipp’s squeeze bunt
to increase the Trojan lead to three.
Patrick West scored the first run of the game in the third inning when he
scored on an errant pickoff attempt to give Anderson a 1-0 lead.
B.J. Smith led the Trojans offensively, going 3-for-5 with a run while Hipp
went 2-for-4 with one RBI. On the mound, Cory Welch earned the victory in
relief, throwing two scoreless innings and allowing just one hit.
For Shippensburg, junior Andrew Burke (Fayetteville/Chambersburg) suffered
his second loss in as many starts this season, allowing three runs in 6 1/3
innings.
The Red Raiders return to action next weekend with a three-game series at
No. 8 Georgia College & State that will mark the seventh game out of
10 this season in which Shippensburg has faced a team ranked in the
top-10.
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