DANVILLE, Ky. - Centre baseball nearly doubled its total run output for the year in the fourth game of the season as the Colonels defeated the Trine Thunder by a score of 16-1 to improve to 3-1 on the year.
GAME HIGHLIGHTS
- The offense got off to a hot start when
Chase Austin doubled to open the bottom of the first. A shot up the middle by
Evan Weyler plated the first run of the game for Centre. With Weyler on second after a balk, a two-out error kept the door open for the Colonels and they took advantage, with Weyler scoring on the second balk of the inning.
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Graham Johnson made it 3-0 with a base hit down the line. A double by
Baylor Woodall put runners on second and third before
Jamison Craig sent everybody home with a no-doubt blast over the left field wall to cap off a six-run opening frame.
- Trine got a run back in the third before Centre opened the floodgates again in the bottom half of the inning. It started with a leadoff single from Johnson, then Woodall was hit by a pitch and Craig walked, loading the bases for
Forrest Day, who uncorked a mammoth grand slam to make it a 10-1 game.
- With the wind blowing out to right field, Austin wasted no time in adding to the Centre lead with a solo shot as the two lefty hitters in the Colonels' lineup went back to back.
Ayden Lohr was then hit by a pitch and eventually scored on a wild pitch to give the Colonels their second six-run inning of the night.
- In the fifth, the Colonels began to empty the bench and still kept the hitting going as
Wesley Taylor delivered a two-run triple just over the center fielder's head to make it 14-1.
- Centre added to the lead in the next inning on an RBI groundout from
Michael Lynch and a two-out single from
Joel Lopez.
Carson Waddle and
Trevor Zimmerman pitched scoreless innings to end the game after seven.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
- Centre's 16 runs came on 16 hits by a dozen different players. No Centre player finished with more than two hits on the night.
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Isaac Rone struck out seven in five innings of work to get his first win of the season.
NEXT UP
Centre and Trine will resume their series on Saturday with doubleheader action. The first pitch will be at 12 PM.
