Spring Hill outlasts KSU in 15-10 12-inning victory
Third baseman Brandon Harigel mashed a 3-run homer in the 12th and tallied 7 RBI
Spring Hill outlasts KSU in 15-10 12-inning victory
Box Score FRANKFORT, Ky. – The Spring Hill College (SHC) baseball team won a wild 15-10 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) decision over the Kentucky State University (KSU) Thorobreds in 12 innings at KSU Baseball Field on Monday afternoon.
 
The Thorobreds (16-30, 10-8 SIAC) led the Badgers 7-3 after seven inning of play, but SHC rallied to put three runs across the plate in the 8th frame only to watch KSU respond with three scores of their own in the bottom half of the inning.
 
Four consecutive singles in the top of the 9th inning led to four runs by the Badgers to send the game into extra innings knotted at 10-10. Neither team dented the scoreboard until the top of the 12th inning when second baseman Daniel Rodriguez put SHC up 11-10 with a double to plate pitcher Dylan Kiene from 2nd base and two batters later third baseman Brandon Harigel launched a three-run homer to make it 14-10. Center fielder Ulysses Fluellen was next up with a double and then scored to make it 15-10 off an RBI-single by first baseman Hunter Romero.
 
Kiene (5-3) took home the win in five innings of relief work with three hits, a walk and two strike outs. Matthew Oxford (1-4) accepted the loss in three innings with eight hits, a walk and no strike outs.
 
At the plate, the Badgers totaled a season-high 24 hits as Fontenot feasted on a 5-for-7 day with two RBI and Fluellen rapped out four hits with a double and an RBI. Harigel added his home run in the final stanza along with two more hits and seven RBI. Left fielder Conner Harrison punched a leadoff home run to center in the 6th inning.
 
The Badgers (26-20, 14-4 SIAC) will return home to the friendly confines of historic Stan Galle Field this weekend for a season-ending three-game series with the Clark Atlanta University Panthers (13-22, 7-10 SIAC) beginning on Friday with a single game at 6 p.m.
 
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