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7
Berea BEREA 3-8
14
Winner Centre CENTRE 6-5
Berea BEREA
3-8
7
Final
14
Centre CENTRE
6-5
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Berea BEREA 1 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 7 11 4
Centre CENTRE 0 3 0 1 0 7 1 2 X 14 10 1

W: Kinsbrunner, David (1-0) L: L. Griffey (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Seth Stogsdill, Assistant Director of Athletics Communications

Sixth inning rally leads to third straight win for Centre baseball

DANVILLE, Ky. – The Centre baseball team won its third straight game on Tuesday night as a huge sixth inning was the biggest difference maker in a 14-7 victory over Berea.
 
GAME HIGHLIGHTS
 
- Centre trailed 2-0 in the second before Josh Cunningham, Dillon Di Iorio and Karson Thompson all worked bases loaded walks to drive in three runs and put the Colonels on top.
- The Mountaineers added two more in the third to go back in front, but Centre rallied to tie it back up in the fourth. Di Iorio was hit by a pitch, advanced to third on a Thompson single and scored the tying run on an RBI groundout by Ben Prather.
- Trailing 6-4 in the sixth, Di Iorio reached again on an error to lead off. With Di Iorio on third, Prather ripped a base hit up the middle to cut the deficit to one. Chase Austin then smashed a triple off the right field wall to tie the game. One balk later, Austin scored the go-ahead run and the rally continued.
- Matthew Maggard, Perry Nadreau and Cole Fergusson all walked to load the bases. A sacrifice fly by Conner Jackson made it 6-8, and then Cunningham doubled into the gap to score two more. An RBI single by Di Iorio capped of the run as the Colonels turned a 6-4 deficit into an 11-6 lead.
- Centre added another run in their half of the seventh. Prather led off with a walk and then pinch runner Robert Monaco scored after Austin snuck one past the second baseman.
- In the eighth, Cunningham was hit by a pitch, advanced on a balk and scored on an RBI single from Thompson. With the bases loaded, Baylor Woodall was hit by a pitch for his first career RBI, scoring Thompson to plate the final run of the game for the Colonels.
 
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
 
- The Colonels got their seven runs in the sixth inning on four hits, three walks, an error and a balk.
- Five different Centre players had multiple RBIs, led by Cunningham with three.
- Cunningham's two-run double in the sixth increased his hitting streak to 11 games.
- Centre drew a season high 13 walks in the game.
- David Kinsbrunner got the win in middle relief after striking out four and allowing just one hit in 2.2 innings of work while the Colonels retook the lead.
 
NEXT UP
 
The Colonels will return to conference play this weekend with a home series against Millsaps.
 
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