Box Score MOBILE, Ala. – The Spring Hill College (SHC) baseball team earned a 7-4 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) victory over the Kentucky State University (KSU) Thorobreds at historic Stan Galle Field on Sunday afternoon to stretch its current conference record to 11-0.
Spring Hill took a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the 2nd second inning when senior designated hitter
Ryan Stevens drove in the day's first score with a double to right-centerfield and was brought home three batters later with a single by senior second baseman
Mason Hutson's hit through the left side of the infield. Hutson scored when sophomore shortstop
Thomas Smith tripled to right-center in the next at-bat.
Second baseman Kyle Clark's double to right-centerfield for KSU made it 3-1as right fielder Justin Cain came all the way home from 1st base.
The Thorobreds (7-15, 11-0 SIAC) gave up two more runs in the 3rd inning off a passed ball that resulted in junior 3rd baseman
Matthew Spradlin sliding in under the pitcher's attempted tag at home and when senior left fielder
Kyle Freeman's double-play ball to shortstop brought in senior right fielder
Taylor Eads from 3rd base.
SHC tacked on single runs in the 5th and 6th frames with an RBI-double down the left field line by junior centerfielder
Garrett Webb and a deep sacrifice fly to left by junior first baseman
William Floros. KSU continued to fight, however, and scored runs in the 6th inning off a sacrifice fly to centerfield by catcher Lazaro Sosa-Gonzalez, in the 7th inning by way of an RBI-single to center by Clark, and in the 9th when third baseman Paul Simon led off with a triple and scored off a single to the right side by Cain with two outs.
Junior
Wesley Parrish (4-3) was the winner for SHC in eight innings with 10 hits, a walk and six strikeouts while Kodie Girton fell to 2-2 on the year in the complete-game loss with 13 hits, five walks and five strikeouts.
For the Badger offense, Floros, Spradlin, Eads, Webb and Smith all had two hits. Simon had three hits for the Thorobreds and Clark had two hits with a double and two RBIs.
The Badgers (20-9, 11-0 SIAC) next play at the Mississippi College Choctaws (9-20) in a non-conference doubleheader beginning at 3 p.m. on Tuesday at Frierson Field in Clinton, Miss.