BOCA RATON, Fla. -- The Lynn University Fighting Knights pounded out 17 runs on 18 hits and, despite five errors defensively, outlasted the Delta State University baseball team 17-13 on Saturday afternoon.
INSIDE THE MATCHUP
Final: Delta State 13 | Lynn 17
Location: Lynn Baseball Field | Boca Raton, Fla.
Records: No. 24 Delta State (2-1) | Lynn (5-1)
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HOW IT HAPPENED
- A Hayden White RBI ground out scored Char Ragland, after he led off the game with a double, to give DSU a 1-0 lead.
- Lynn answered with a two-run home run in the bottom of the frame to take a 2-1 advantage.
- A Carson Clowers RBI single and a White two-run double highlighted a four-run second to build a 5-2 lead.
- Kirkland Trahan's two-RBI single scored Clowers and Ragland as DSU lead 8-4 heading to the bottom of the fourth inning.
- Lynn responded with a six-spot, including a Yuzuki Okamura 3-run homer, as they stormed in front 10-8.
- After two more Fighting Knights runs, Ragland scored on an error, Blayke Dendy ripped an RBI single, Dalton Cummins notched a sac fly, and Dendy scored on a wild pitch to tie the game up 12-12 heading to the seventh.
- Two seventh-inning runs and three in the eighth allowed Lynn to build a 17-13 advantage after Barlow hit a solo homer in the top of the eighth.
- Down to their last three outs, Buxbaum set the Statesmen down in order in the top of the ninth to finish off the Lynn victory.
ON THE MOUND
- Hammer Franks was charged with eight earned runs on nine hits in three and one-third innings.
- Jackson Rutledge took the loss, as he worked 3.2 innings of relief and allowed four runs on five hits.
- Trace McNabb (0.0 innings, two earned runs), Charlie Darnall (0.1, three earned runs), and Steven Lacey (0.2, two hits, one strikeout) also logged work on the mound for the Statesmen.
UP NEXT
Delta State finishes up its Sunshine State swing as they take on Palm Beach Atlantic on Sunday, Feb. 13 at noon CT in West Palm Beach, Fla.
