BASEBALL

The HU baseball team picked off the #19 Patriots of the University of the Cumberlands, 9-4, Friday afternoon at Doyle Buhl Stadium. It was the second game of a doubleheader with the opener favoring the hosts 7-1.

Cumberlands entered the day with 13 games under their belt to HU’s five. The nightcap was just the Patriots’ second loss of the season as their record stands at 13-2. The Foresters are now 4-3 on the year with another doubleheader against UC tomorrow.

Alex McCutcheon was sensational on the mound to claim the win in game two. He tossed the first five frames and gave up two hits, a run and two walks while striking out eight. Brent Turner and Joey Butz each spent an inning on the mound after that to wrap things up.

Collin Landrum and Daniel Lichty teamed up in the first and again in the third to jumpstart HU’s offense. Landrum scored a run in each inning compliments of Lichty’s sacrifice fly and RBI-single respectively for an early 2-1 Forester advantage.

Satchell Wilson opened up the fourth with his first collegiate dinger, a shot over the left field fence, to kick-off a four-run frame for Huntington. Ian McCutcheon kept things going by drawing a walk and eventually scoring on a wild pitch. In the midst of that Donovan Clark bunted his way to first and Landrum drew the inning’s second base on balls after which Adam Roser singled them both in to blow the game open at 6-1.

Both teams scored three runs in the final two frames to cancel each other out to make for the 9-4 final. HU’s run in the sixth came by way of Jarret Gray’s sacrifice fly while the final two runs came on Clark’s shot up the middle in the seventh.

Clark went 3-for-4 at the plate, scored twice and drove in two runs. Ian McCutcheon picked up a pair of base pokes while Lichty and Roser each finished with two RBI. As a team, Frame’s crew collected ten hits to Cumberlands’ five.

Game one saw the Foresters get down early and never recover as the Patriots found home five times in their first at by way of four hits and two HU errors to claim an insurmountable lead. Huntington’s lone run came in the fifth on Wilson’s RBI-double. It was just one of three hits the Foresters mustered against UC’s ace Zach Hurley who logged the complete-game win.

DJ Moore took the loss for the Foresters. In five innings of work, the senior hurler gave up five hits, six runs, only two of which were earned, and three walks while striking out seven after which Ethan Froehlke threw an inning of relief.