No. 2 Baseball Falls to Cumberland

Lebanon, Tenn.- The baseball team, ranked No. 2 in the NAIA, went on the road for a non-conference game on Tuesday. The team traveled to play the Cumberland University Phoenix.

The game did not start how the Bulldogs had wanted as they fell behind 1-0 in the first inning. The hole grew deeper for the team in the second and third innings as the opponents added four more runs to their score, putting TWU behind 5-0. The team put a run on the board in the fourth inning.

Cody McGill opened the fourth inning with a walk. Marco Martinez followed with a single through the right side. The bases became loaded for a short period when Parker Stinnett singled to get on first. Braxton Turner hit a sacrifice fly to left field that McGill scored on to cut the deficit down to four runs. Cumberland scored a run in the bottom of the fourth to move their advantage back out to five runs.

The inning the Bulldogs did the most damage in was the seventh inning. Entering the inning trailing 9-1 after the opponents scored three runs in the fifth, Tennessee Wesleyan scored four runs. Andre Tarver became the first base runner of the inning with a single. Carson Ford joined via a walk and a single to center field that resulted in an error by Dan Sayre brought Tarver home for the first run of the inning. The other three runs came on a bomb by McGill, making the score 9-5 at the end of the inning. Unfortunately, the Bulldogs were not able to pull closer, falling by the score the seventh inning ended with.

McGill led the team with three RBIs while Sayre and Turner each had one RBI. Robert Kelley led the team with three strikeouts on the mound.

Up next for TWU (22-5, 12-0 AAC) is a home conference series against Johnson University. The first game is set for Friday at 3:00 p.m.