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Towns King celebration vs WCU 2021 SoCon Tournament
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Western Carolina WCU 27-20
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Winner Samford SAM 34-22
Western Carolina WCU
27-20
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Final
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Samford SAM
34-22
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Western Carolina WCU 0 0 0 5 0 2 0 7 7 1
Samford SAM 0 3 2 3 2 9 X 19 16 0

W: McCord, Jesse (4-6) L: Nick Hyde (2-3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Advances To SoCon Championship Round With 19-7 Win Over WCU

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GREENVILLE, S.C. – The Samford baseball team advanced to the championship round of the Southern Conference Baseball Tournament with a 19-7, seven-inning win over Western Carolina Saturday afternoon at Fluor Field. The game started Friday evening, but was suspended in the fourth inning due to inclement weather in the Greenville area.
 
Western Carolina will now play Wofford later Saturday. Samford will take on the winner of the Wofford-WCU game Sunday at 11 a.m. (CT). A Samford win would give the Bulldogs the title, but a Samford loss would force a second game Sunday for the championship.
 
The Samford offense produced 19 runs on 16 hits, including two doubles, two triples and three home runs. Samford head coach Casey Dunn praised his team's offensive performance following the win.
 
"We had a lot of good at-bats today," Dunn said. "The home runs are easy to single out, but we had a lot of line drives up the middle, a lot of hits to the back side of the field. We just had good approaches today, and we have one more day to try to put it together again."
 
THE BASICS
FINAL: Samford 19 | Western Carolina 7
Date/Time: Fri., May 28/Sat., May 29 | Start 8:30 p.m. (Fri) | TOG: 3:11
Location: Greenville, S.C. (Fluor Field)
Records: Samford (34-22) | WCU (27-20)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
  • Samford jumped on top first with three runs in the bottom of the second inning. Ryan Crockett scored the first run when Will David grounded out to second base. Max Pinto later tripled to drive in Towns King and Kaden Dreier for a 3-0 Samford lead.
  • In the bottom of the third inning, Sonny DiChiara led the inning off with a solo home run to center field. Tyler McManus then tripled and scored on a ground out by Crockett for a 5-0 Samford lead.
  • Western Carolina's Daylan Nanny hit a three-run home run to right field in the top of the fourth inning to cut the Samford lead to 5-3.
  • In the top of the fourth inning, storms arrived and forced the game to be suspended until Saturday afternoon.
  • After play resumed, still in the top of the fourth inning, Western Carolina added two more runs to knot the score at 5-5. Seth Graves singled to drive in Bryson Parks with the first run. The game-tying run scored when Will Prater grounded out to second base to drive in Tom Brosnahan.
  • In the bottom of the fourth inning, Brooks Carlson hit a three-run home run to left field to give Samford an 8-5 lead.
  • The Bulldogs added two more runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to push the lead to 10-5. Carlson reached on an infield single, driving in Dreier, and David scored on an error on the play.
  • In the top of the sixth inning, Western Carolina plated two runs to cut the Samford lead to 10-7. Prater singled to drive in Brosnahan for the first run of the inning. The second run scored when Pascanel Ferraras singled to drive in Graves to pull the Catamounts to within three runs.
  • In the bottom of the sixth inning, Samford plated nine runs to push its lead to 19-7. King hit a three-run homer to left-center field for the first three runs in the inning. Crockett drove in two runs, while DiChiara, McManus and Dreier drove in a run each. Pinto also scored on a wild pitch in the inning.
 
ON THE MOUND
  • Jesse McCord (4-6) earned the win on the mound, pitching 1.2 innings in relief, allowing no runs on two hits.
  • Zach Hester starting the game for Samford, pitching 3.1 innings, giving up four runs on two hits, but was pulled following the weather delay. Blake Bortak pitched 2.0 innings in relief, allowing three runs on three hits.
  • Nick Hyde (2-3) took the loss for the Catamounts, giving up three runs on two hits.
 
NOTABLES 
  • Carlson went 2-for-5 with a home run and four RBI to lead Samford at the plate.
  • Pinto went 2-for-3 with a double, a triple and two RBI.
  • McManus went 2-for-3 with a triple and an RBI.
  • King and DiChiara also homered for Samford in the win.
  • For Western Carolina, Nanny homered and drove in three runs.
  • In Sunday's game, Samford will be playing for its third SoCon Tournament title, as the Bulldogs won previous championships in 2012 and 2018.
 
NEXT UP 
Samford will take on the winner of Saturday night's game between Wofford and Western Carolina Sunday at 11 a.m. (CT). A Samford win would give the Bulldogs the title, but a Samford loss would force a second game Sunday for the championship.
 
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