Salisbury, N.C. —- The seventh-ranked and second-seeded Catawba College baseball team punched its ticket to the Southeast Super Regional for the third straight year at Newman Park on Saturday with a 6-4 win over sixth-seed Young Harris.
TEAM STATISTICS
- Catawba out-hit Young Harris 11-4
- The Catawba Indians hit three of four homers and seven of eight extra-base hits
- The Mountain Lions committed the lone error
- YHC left four runners on base; Catawba stranded 11
- Catawba recorded all five stolen bases
- The Catawba Indian pitchers allowed four runs on four hits and four walks, striking out 11; Young Harris' staff allowed six runs on 11 hits and three walks, striking out four
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
- Kemper Nix earned the win on the mound, allowing two runs across 6.1 innings, allowing just three hits and striking out seven
- Joe Burleyson recorded the game's final six outs, striking out three
- Malachi Cloud was 3-for-4 with a homer and two doubles with a stolen base and two runs scored
- Nathan Chrismon homered and scored twice
- Brandon Crabtree also homered
HOW IT HAPPENED
FIRST INNING
- Crabtree crushed a no-doubt homer to right field with one out in the first
SECOND INNING
- Chrismon hit a leadoff solo homer to left-center in the second
- Cloud followed with a two-out homer the opposite way to make it 3-0
THIRD INNING
- Jake Dunlap led off the third with a single
- Ty Hubbard scored him on an opposite-field double to put Catawba in front, 4-0
FOURTH INNING
- Dyer singled to lead off the fourth
- He moved up to second on a groundout and third on Sam Hunter's bunt single
- Atkins drove him home on an RBI single to left field
- Jackson Morgan recorded his fifth home run of the regional, a two-run shot in the bottom half to cut YHC's deficit to three
EIGHTH INNING
- Cloud doubled to right-center and stole third to lead off the eighth
- Dyer's sac fly scored an insurance run to lead 6-2
- Young Harris got two aboard with walks
- Jeo Hernandez scored two with a single to center field to bring the tying run to the plate
UP NEXT
- Catawba advances to its fourth Super Regional in program history and its third straight; they'll host fifth-seed Francis Marion at Newman Park May 21-23
- Game one is set for Thursday at 6 p.m.
